Vagina Museum

Not sure ThatIs.

But the taxman might want to know.

Is that their reason to exist then? Just to announce that not only women have periods? Wow who foots the bill!!

I went to the Vagina museum last year (pre-Covid, feels like a different lifetime now!) and yes, sorry waste of space. They had plain mistakes on their boards too - I remember one on breastfeeding and contraception.

They also seem to be very confused on what is a vagina as opposed to what is a vulva.

Pretty poor show tbh. When there would be so much to say about what different societies think about menstruation or menopause, basic education (it's a vulva! not a vagina!), common-but-underdiagnosed conditions like endometriosis or PCOS, things to look out for when you're a woman (ectopic pregnancies, ovarian cancer etc), when and how often to do a smear test, menstrual art, basic education around early pregnancy (it's an embryo not a foetus much less a baby, abortion "kills" something the size of a grain of rice), etc etc.

Instead they had a giant tampon, lots of boards saying men can totally be women and a pair of knickers discoloured at the crotch.... to each their own, to each their own.

They are in no way speaking for women or indeed feminism.

Oooooh, I'll go to those, thanks, Purple!

The Foundling Museum and Museum of Brands on the other hand are examples of smaller museums who do manage to get it right.

You know what, Purple, it really was. I hadn't recognised it at the time, but, yes, I was bored.

There was no humour or outrage - it was a bit like a high school project. I'm surprised, their director is a science communicator and I expected something engaging.

Oh well, maybe I'm not their target market

That article, HPFA - I feel dizzy. Also, this:

"Like many trans women don’t use tampons in order to enhance our lived experience."

That's them sticking it up their bum or stealing used ones from bins, isn't it? In plain sight.

I'm very fucking angry and sweary today. Both at the situation in Poland, and at these pathetic tweets by a so-called Vagina Museum. Seriously FUCK OFF.

And "Polish people with vaginas". Fuck off to the far side of fuck off, Vagina Museum.

Sounds boring and grim vivarium

Hadn't seen this article before - worth a read

spectator.us/cisgendered-menstruators-erase-identity/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I've been, and was really disappointed. I expected some insightful stuff about medical misogyny, historical artefacts, development of contraception, menstrual practices across the ages and world, some clever interactive and thought provoking displays...

...there is a giant glittery tampon, a pair of used black knickers in a perspex box and some factually incorrect posters.

It's a shame, it could have been brilliant. Instead, it looks like every mention of :women" has been debated before approval by their board - many of whom don't believe themselves to be female. Go figure.

Oh. That little icon on the far right?

I'm not sure.

Does anyone on here who is also on Twitter know how??

Isn’t there a way to see deleted tweets? They have had all this before but doggedly persist.

They have deleted 1000+ comments by women and men who have called out their shocking hypocritical stance.

I wonder who actually visits?

We are a museum going family. We love discovering a new one.

I have placed this one on our no-go list.

The women running this one are shocking and they will not be getting our custom', money or support.

I have seen them advertising somewhere in London during the summer so maybe they attracted an investor.

I thought they were about to go bust?

A vagina museum?!
Ookay not heard of that one lol, each to their own but I think I'll stick to Madam Tussaud's or the London Eye lol

Now that pencil museum is fun!

Agree with Dido Lamenting. If you're reduced to visiting the vagina museum on holiday then the weather is really crap. Sadly I see it as being on a stag weekend itinerary

I like that comparison. FYI I have visited the pencil museum, and I rather liked it!