The Vagina Museum – the very first of its kind in the world – is crowdfunding for a new home. After sadly closing down in February 2023, the gallery which is dedicated to all things gynaecological has found a potential new site, but needs to raise funds .
It's fannies to the wall, because the muff museum needs to raise £85,000 before the beginning of June unless it risks closing forever. The gallery has found a space under ‘twin railway arches in east London’, it shared on Twitter, but needs a significant cash injection to be able to set up shop there permanently. So far its raised £50,000 of its goal.
On Twitter, the museum wrote: ‘We've done extensive financial modelling and know there's a long, secure future in this new premises. But the protracted search and being unable to raise funds while closed has proved costly and dug the museum deep into our reserves. We need a substantial cash injection now.
‘This is a now-or-never situation: we need to raise £85,000 by the beginning of June in order to pull this off. Otherwise, we're not going to be able to survive beyond a few months, and all activities, including on this account, will cease.’
The free museum was last set up in a property guardianship in Bethnal Green, and before that the museum was based in Camden Market. It opened in 2019 following a crowdfunding campaign which raised £50,000, as well as pop-up events at Green Man Festival, the Royal Institution, Feminist Library and Freud Museum.
Florence Schechter founded the museum after discovering Iceland’s long-running Phallological Museum, which has a collection of more than 280 penises. Her aim for the museum was to ‘erase the stigma around the body and gynaecological anatomy’. In its ten months at the Bethnal Green site, the museum has hosted exhibitions such as ‘Periods: A Brief History’.
As well as raising awareness of gynaecological anatomy and health, the museum aims to ‘promote intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values’.
If you want to help keep The Vagina Museum alive, you can donate to its gofundme online.
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