We here at Ninth Letter wish we could excerpt the entire book for your reading pleasure. Greene is also entranced by the creators of these museums, and she happily presents us with the unusual histories of their obsessions. Then there are the speculative museums that seek to preserve the invisible: sorcery, witchcraft, and sea monsters.
In The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, Greene guides us through collections devoted to rare local birds, rocks, and even penises (yes, you read that right), as well as collections of “old things” such as bone skates, turf knives, and washing cudgels. Or, even more specifically: a hunter of the many small, community-based museums that have sprung up all over Iceland in recent decades, museums that celebrate natural history and cultural nooks and crannies in danger of being lost in this now modernized country. Or, more specifically: a hunter of museums in Iceland.
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