The First Museum Dedicated to Vaginas Is Opening This Weekend in London

Florence Schechter, the museum’s founder, is a science YouTuber and hopes to rid the stigma that surrounds that part of the body, as it can lead to harmful consequences. “What I’m hoping that people will get out of it, I think, No. 1 is that vaginas are normal and nothing to be ashamed of,” she said in an interview with PRI’s The World. “I think a museum would be a really great way of us as a community coming together and saying, ‘Actually, this is a part of the body that we should be celebrating, something we should be having conversations about.”

The project launched in March 2017 and has put on pop-up exhibits around the UK since then. It has fundraised nearly 50,000 British pounds in donations.

While the Camden museum is underway, Schechter and her team will be working on finding a permanent location in the UK. The plan is to open said location in 2032, with galleries and exhibitions dedicated to the science, history, culture, and social aspect of gynaecological anatomy, as well as a variety of events.

The Vagina Museum is free admission and will be open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Sunday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.