The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History is a museum and bar in Hackney Central, situated in a former call centre on Mare Street in the London Borough of Hackney.
[citation needed] The museum's natural history collection includes dodo bones and extinct bird feathers, as well as much taxidermy and the skeleton of a giant anteater.
It has a section dedicated to the Dandy, including Sebastian Horsley's nails from his crucifixion and drawings and archive material to do with Stephen Tennant, a collection of human remains including shrunken heads, Tribal Skulls, dead babies in bottles and parts of pickled sex workers, tribal art collected in The Congo and New Guinea by the proprietor, fossils, and scientific and medical instruments.
[5] It also displays celebrity faecal matter, erotica[6] and condoms used by the Rolling Stones.
[8] The Museum holds regular exhibitions of artists including Alasdair Gray, Mervyn Peake, Gunter Grass,[9] Robin Ironside[10] and English Surrealists.