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Vagina Museum

Name: Vagina Museum
Address: Arches 275-276 Poyser Street, London, E29RF, GB
Telephone: +442037158943
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Menopause: What's Changed? World's first brick and mortar museum dedicated to v***as, vaginas and the gynaecological anatomy.
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16/10/2026

📣Join us for a panel and zine-making workshop with the Ad’iyah Collective and
Feminist Miscarriage Project🎨

What does it mean to be a full spectrum doula?

How can we support people through their pregnancy ending, whether the pregnancy ends with a birth or an abortion, a miscarriage or a stillbirth? How do we honour their experience in all its complexity?

What does the full spectrum approach offer us as community organisers, caretakers, researchers, human beings?

In the first portion of the day, then, we’ll learn more about what it means to be a full-spectrum doula with Dr. Victoria Browne and our panellists. Learning how to support pregnant people in the first instance, and perhaps too how to deliver a more just world for everyone.

Then Naz Toorabally will lead us in a zine-making workshop to reflect on how we can apply the lessons of a full spectrum approach to our own lives and practice.

📅 14th November
⌛️ 2pm
📍 Va**na Museum
🎟️ FREE
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12/10/2026

Join us for an afternoon exploring the art and history of gynaecology.

This two-hour workshop will provide an overview of the historical (mis)treatment of common but under-researched gynaecological-related health conditions like endometriosis and fibroids; the tactics communities have used to protest neglect and misunderstanding; and how people experiencing health conditions might use this knowledge to self-advocate today.

The event will be led by Dr Emma Day, an historian of gender and medicine, and Naz Toorabally, an artist who leads health education programmes focusing on menstrual health and reproductive justice.

Emma Day will open the event with a short lecture on the history of gynaecology. Naz Toorabally will then lead the interactive zine-making workshop.

The event is aimed at people experiencing gynaecological health condition(s) who would like to learn more about the history of medical practice, share their experiences, and build community.

📅 13th November
⌛️ 3pm
📍 Va**na Museum
🎟️ FREE
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This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 5-14 November 2026. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.

06/10/2026

The Contraception Fair is coming to Va**na Museum Lates!

Come along on Wednesday 21st October to see some of the costumes, meet the makers and see the film while mooching around the Museum after hours.

Doors from 7pm
Tickets from £7.50

01/10/2026

GRWM — ✨ Va**na Museum Edition ✨

We’re open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, and completely FREE.

28/09/2026

Come see us in the flesh!

On display:

🔻 Lucy’s Gallery: Menopause - What’s Changed?
🔻 Betsey’s Gallery: From A to V
🔻 Anarcha’s Gallery: Pregnancy Endings

As always, the Museum is completely free to enter and open Wednesday to Sunday. If you’re extra keen or bringing a group of ten or more, please do book a free timeslot via our website.

Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm
Arches 275 - 276
Poyser Street
Bethnal Green
E2 9RF

27/09/2026

Our opening hours are changing (again)!

As the days get shorter, we’re shortening our hours. But don’t be alarmed, Lates will continue and there will still be ample opportunity to visit.

From 1st October, the new hours will be: Wednesday to Sunday, 11pm to 6pm.

On display at the moment we have...

🔻 Lucy’s Gallery: Menopause - What’s Changed?
🔻 Betsey’s Gallery: From A to V
🔻 Anarcha’s Gallery: Pregnancy Endings

As always, the Museum is completely free to enter and open Wednesday to Sunday. If you’re extra keen or bringing a group of ten or more, please do book a free timeslot via our website.

Come see us in the flesh!

25/09/2026

Last week we celebrated the opening of our newest Community Gallery exhibition, Pregnancy Endings. Thank you to everyone who came out!

If you weren’t able to make it, don’t worry. Pregnancy Endings will be up in Anarcha’s Gallery until the end of the year. Plus, there are a few more activities around the exhibition in the pipeline. Keep your eyes peeled.

The Museum is FREE to enter, every Wednesday to Sunday. Come see us in the flesh!

What would your Pregnancy Endings t-shirt say?

Dr Vic Browne speaking on the night:

Hi everyone and thank you so much for coming.

I’m the Project Lead for the Feminist Miscarriage Project, and I just wanted to say how happy we are to have our Pregnancy Endings exhibition here at the Va**na Museum.

The exhibition had its first run in May this year, at the Bomb Factory Art Foundation in Holborn. It’s a collaboration between the Feminist Miscarriage Project, the photographer Tara Todras Whitehill (who sadly couldn’t be here this evening) and the artist, curator and designer Meg Ferguson (who gladly could be!).

The idea of the exhibition is to challenge the way that miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, and birth so often get treated as separate experiences, and placed into distinct categories and communities, as if they had nothing to do with each other.

Our aim, instead, is to put stories of different pregnancy endings together, side by side; so that we can find points of solidarity and connection, as well as appreciating and honouring differences, in our shared struggle for bodily autonomy, health equality and reproductive justice.

The Va**na Museum is the perfect home for this project – with its commitment to fighting bodily shame and stigma, and championing bodily autonomy for everyone.

We want to say a big thank you to Katja Holtz, who sadly couldn’t be here this evening as she’s away on annual leave, but has put lots of hard work into making this happen.

And also to Rhubi Worth, for installing the exhibition so beautifully, and adding new elements which have really enhanced it for this new space.

To Meg for continuing your brilliant work on this, and of course to everyone who is featured in the portraits, and has share

24/09/2026

Lates at the Va**na Museum

Next month we’re screening the award-winning short ‘The Contraception Fair’, alongside a display of the costumes and props from the film.

Come see the museum, have a drink, and join the screening on 21st October. After the screening, you’ll also have the chance to hear writer/director Julie Magnaudet, costume designer Sarah Yemalla, and Amber Grappy in an exclusive Q&A hosted by Va**na Museum Community & Membership Manager Dr. Alex Lyons.

Doors from 7pm
Film & discussion at 8pm
Entry & drink £15
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23/09/2026

We smile. We laugh. We carry on.

But sometimes, behind the smile, there’s a story you can’t see.

Just Because We Smile, Doesn’t Mean We’re Over It is a powerful new photography exhibition exploring the hidden reality of miscarriage, baby loss and infertility.

Featuring real people and their real stories, the exhibition challenges the assumption that because someone looks “fine”, they must be fine.

This October, during Baby Loss Awareness Month, come and see the stories that so often remain unseen.

06/09/2026

Come along, let us tell you all about medieval interpretations of Christ’s side wound.

There are numerous depictions of Jesus’s wound turned on its side, and shaped distinctly like a v***a. Some surviving representations of the wound are worn, probably because people kissed and rubbed them. At least three medieval saints had visions - sometimes ecstatic - involving kissing or drinking from the wound.

Aelred of Rievaulx, when inviting his sister to imagine Jesus’s wound, wrote, using imagery almost identical to that in the Song of Songs, scripture’s ho****st passage:

“Then one of the soldiers opened his side with a lance and there came forth blood and water. Hasten, linger not, eat the honeycomb with your honey, drink your w**e with your milk... Your lips, stained with his blood, will become like a scarlet ribbon and your word sweet.”

Pe*******on of the wound is a common motif, particularly because in the Bible story, Thomas has his doubts about the resurrection alleviated by sticking his fingers right in there.

There’s also images depicting Jesus giving birth from his side wound. The wound was associated more explicitly associated with literal childbirth, and imagery appeared on “birth girdles” which were pressed against women to alleviate pain during labour.

It’s not hard to see why a hole which bled and produced a clear liquid, and was penetrated, was represented and understood in a way so closely linked to vaginas and v***as.

Address

Arches 275-276 Poyser Street
London
E29RF

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+442037158943

Website

http://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/

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