Category: Germany Travel

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Stuttgart, Germany is home to the world's largest pig museum featuring over 40,000 pigs in 28 theme rooms. Despite this, the Pig Museum is not well known. In asking over 20 locals and expats, no one had heard of it. I was intrigued, but not sure what to expect. The Pig Museum is kitsch at it's best.  As one might expect when you have 40,000 pigs stuffed into one 800 m sq building. One room alone had 2000 piggy banks! But it was also surprisingly informative, and humorous in places and most of the signs were in both German and English. Pigs have been kept as domestic animals for over 9000 years, with the oldest evidence found in southeastern Turkey. Any guesses about the world's largest producer of pork? Hint, it's not Germany, but.............China! China produces ~ 50% of all the world's pork! You're not likely to find pigs in Islamic countries though. Afghanistan's pig population totals 1 and that one is in the Kabul Zoo. What surprised me most about the museum is that 1 of the theme rooms was dedicated to pigs and sexuality, I dubbed it the Pig Porn Room. I can almost see the confused expression on your face.  It's probably similar to the perplexed expression I had on my face as I stepped into this room. It turns out that they are a symbol for sexuality since females have long fertility period.  But most impressive, female can have orgasms lasting up to 30 minutes! I don't think I really want to know how they know that, but this is the one thing I learned at the Pig Museum that I don't think I'm likely to forget.  And as I discovered at a dinner tonight, it makes for interesting dinner conversation. Sorry, no photos from the

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