“We’re planning to have temporary exhibitions, including one about the history of period products which I plan to call ‘A Period In Time’, which will change every six months,” she says, “and we will probably have another small permanent exhibition on what The Vagina Museum is and why it is needed.”

Eventually, Florence hopes to move The Vagina Museum into a large space where they can host permanent exhibitions: “I'm recognising this is about ten years down the line, but we plan on having four permanent galleries: Science, Culture, History and Society,” she says.

“Science will be about anatomy, health, sexuality, childbirth, contraception, menstruation, menopause and so on,” Florence explains, “where you can learn the facts as there’s so much misinformation out there.”

“Culture is about representations in art, music, books, those sorts of things,” she continues, “Society is about the vagina’s place in our society, the language we use, religious rights, legislation, those sorts of things. The History is period products, gynaecological medicine, the history of sex work and so on.”

The Vagina Museum will be inclusive of everyone with vaginas. By including trans and non-binary people on the museum’s advisory board and by making sure all marketing and print materials use inclusive, non-gendered language, the museum will ensure that everyone feels welcome and included.

The Vulva In Sex Education

One of the reasons that The Vagina Museum is so necessary is because loads of people are in the dark when it comes to their parts.

Recent research from Yougov found that 45% of women weren’t sure where the vagina was located, while 43% could not correctly label the labia.

Florence, who went to a Jewish faith school, was not taught about her own external genitalia (i.e. the vulva) at all. “We learned about the internal bits like the uterus and the ovaries and we learned about the menstrual cycle,” she says, “but we literally never looked at the vulva.”

She did, however, learn about the penis and scrotum.

How does a Jewish faith school approach sex education? “Judaism has an interesting insight into sex,” she says, “it's not against sexual pleasure but it has to be within marriage, so because we were teenagers and not married, they would gloss over it.”