01885cam a2200277 i 4500 424181071 TxAuBib 20200603120000.0 200214s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019048016 9780143135463 HRD 22.00 0143135465 HRD 22.00 TxAuBib rda Greene, A. Kendra. The Museum of whales you will never see [BOOK] : and other excursions to Iceland's most unusual museums / A. Kendra Greene. New York : Penguin Books, 2020. xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections--nearly one for every ten people. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: How to display what can't be seen? In The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us, in dreamlike anecdotes and more than thirty charming illustrations, how a seemingly random assortment of objects--a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams--can map a people's past and future, their fears and obsessions. Provided by publisher. 20200603. Greene, A. Kendra Travel Iceland. Museums Iceland. Iceland Description and travel.