Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Vienna Museums and Pig Bladder Condoms

There's the Kunsthalle museum, or the Kunsthistorisches Museum, or the Lichtenstein Museum, or the Albertina, or the Mozarthaus, or the Museum of Applied Arts,
...or the brand new Museum of Contraception and Abortion.
It opened a couple of weeks ago in Vienna--founded by an Austrian abortionist, although it's hard to tell what its aim is--to promote contraception, to educate on abortion, or simply to chronicle techniques of both over the last 100 years.
Austrians are big on contraception, if not abortion, and risk--as do other European nations--a significant population drop over the coming decade.
So I guess that means less people to go tour the Museum of Contraception and Abortion.

2 comments:

Hanafi A. said...

I believe that museum will have a élévé trés presence rate and thus the exposed foetuses will be higher than the birthrate in Austria. I believe that the founder draws the tear so that the Austrian ones keep their babies

Patti McCracken said...

I think you're right, Hanafi.
Fortunately, the museum does not display foetuses, but only displaces instruments used and methods applied.
I haven't visited it. I'm curious to hear what kinds of people will visit--general tourists, doctors, researchers, sociologists... who knows?!

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