Our Clitmas sale ends tomorrow. Use the code MERRYCLITMAS for 10% off in our online gift shop. To help you plan your shopping, here's some mar-vulva-lous gift ideas... bit.ly/3d72W9U
The Great Wall of Vagina is an iconic art work. Wouldn't it be fun if it was a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle? Well guess what, it is! A fun and challenging activity for all the family! vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/ch…
Smashing patriarchy is thirsty work. Let that fierce feminist in your life enjoy a drink with a feminist hip flask. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/ch…
The message is clear. MY BODY MY CHOICE. Everyone who steps into your home will know your feelings the second they step through the door. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/pr…
After the year we've all had, everyone could probably do with a break. Relax in yonic style with a lavender eye pillow. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/ch…
What do you get the muff-lover who has everything? No idea. It's up to them. We do gift cards, though. Their gift card, their choice. Please note gift cards aren't included in the sale. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/gift-…
We can barely restock the beloved FUCK THE PATRIARCHY hoops quickly enough, but we currently have some in stock. Get them before they're gone again! vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/je…
Museum membership is a time-honoured traditional gift, and if you're buying your loved one a membership this year, why not get them into the CLITERATI (please note, gift membership is not included in the sale) vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/ch…
vadge badge! vadge badge! vadge badge! Not just one, SIX OF THEM - that's a stocking filler for SIX FANNY FANS. Or one, who really loves fannies. vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/ch…
Wish everyone a very merry Clitmas by saying HOE HOE HOE on an enamel pin.
We'd love to show you every single product in our shop, but we have to go and pack up your pressies to send them to you. Don't forget to use the code MERRYCLITMAS for 10% off. bit.ly/3d72W9U
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The Cholmondeley Ladies (circa 1600-1610) is a painting raising many questions. Today we're not going to talk about the puzzle in pegging down the identities of the women - we will focus on a different, more mundane puzzle...
Image courtesy of Tate Britain.
The Cholmondeley Ladies painting is accompanied by an inscription, which says "Two Ladies of the Cholmondeley Family, Who were born the same day, Married the same day, And brought to Bed the same day."
Many scholars have explored the identities of these ladies, who are unknown, wondered who the unknown artist who painted it was. Even the donor who gave the painting to the Tate is anonymous.
A hundred years ago, there was a research centre, archive, clinic and museum space dedicated to sexuality whose work might seem ahead of its time, even now.
This is the story of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology #LGBTHistoryMonth
Founder of the Institute of Sexology Magnus Hirschfeld was a German Jewish gay man, a qualified doctor. Born in 1868, Hirschfeld's interest in using his skills to advocate for LGBT+ rights was sparked when he noticed many of his gay patients were dying by suicide.
In the late 19th century, Hirschfeld began researching sex and sexuality across cultures. He was especially interested in homosexuality in his early research.
Have you ever wondered what's going on in there during penis-in-vagina sex? Where do the pelvic organs go? What stretches where?
Scientists have. At length. And here's what they thought and how they finally found out.
One of the first scientists to take a guess at what's going on anatomically during PiV sex was Leonardo da Vinci himself, who drew this anatomically incorrect diagram in around 1493.
Image courtesy of the Royal Collection.
You'll notice most of the pelvic organs on the woman are missing in da Vinci's diagram. You also may notice a weird vein leading up to the breasts. That's the vein that brings period blood up to the breasts to turn into milk. This is not how anything works.
Okay muff-lovers, you'll probably know the answer to this one. How many holes are there in the vulva?
The answer may surprise you. Yes, even you.
The hole you'll definitely know about if you follow us is the vaginal entrance, which leads to the vagina. That one's easy.
Next up - and not everybody knows this one - is the entrance to the urethra. Pee doesn't come out of the vagina, it comes out of the urethra. The urethra is positioned above the vagina and below the clitoral glans.
Reindeer are a little unusual among deer. In most species, only males grow antlers, but in reindeer, these big old head bones are a perfectly normal feature for females, too! And how and why they grow antlers is rather interesting...
Antlers in reindeer are deciduous. They're not a permanent fixture on the head of the animal, but rather, antlers grow and are cast in cycles.
In male reindeer, the antlers start growing in around April, and are shed in late December. In females, antlers grow in May, and are cast at around that time the next year.
We do our best to make the Vagina Museum accessible for all. Let's talk a bit about accessibility in our new home at Poyser Street, and what we're trying to do to create a welcoming space.
Our new home is across two floors. We have an upstairs and a downstairs. We're getting a lift installed so our visitors can access both levels, but it won't be ready by 4th November. Because of this, we're not opening our upstairs galleries to the public until the lift is in.
If people who can't use stairs can't access our upstairs galleries, we've decided that to be fair, these galleries will not be open until the lift is installed.