Say Oink to enter this museum Germany’s Schweine Museum has over 52,000 exhibits of the fascinating animal,

Say Oink to enter this museum

Germany’s Schweine Museum has over 52,000 exhibits of the fascinating animal,

The pig is worshipped by many, but only someone crazed can dedicate an entire museum to it. Erika Wilhelmer is an apt example. She was so fascinated by pigs that she used Stuttgart’s former slaughterhouse to build the Schweine Museum in Germany. The 52,000 exhibits in this curious building include over 2,000 piggy banks, massive bronze and silver sculptures of the animal to Easter eggs and underwear with pigs printed and painted on them. Adding to the palpable amusement are pigs riding bikes, some dressed in bikinis and a special section where they are shown making love. The idea for the museum is said to have started taking root two decades ago, when someone gave Wilhelmer a pig-related gift. She was fascinated instantly. “And once people got to know of my love for pigs, I invariably got such gifts on every occasion. In no time, I had a huge collection and so I thought it was best to open a museum dedicated exclusively to the animal,” adds Wilhelmer, who wears a pig pendant and a bracelet of pigs having sex. Ever since the museum opened two years ago, the collection has only grown. Visitors keep sending pig-related articles. “I have such a huge collection in the warehouse that I can open another pig museum,” says a proud Wilhelmer. That could only be good news since one can never have enough of the pigs at the Schweine Museum. And you don’t need to be eating slices of pork in the museum’s adjacent beer garden to be saying this.