Is this really a 7-inch long mummified PENIS that belonged to an 18th century Englishman who became aroused as he was hanged? Museum claims artefact is worth £100,000!

Is this really a 7-inch long mummified PENIS that belonged to an 18th century Englishman who became aroused as he was hanged? Museum claims artefact is worth £100,000!

A museum in Britain claims to have unveiled its strangest item yet - a seven-inch long mummified erection.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History has added the penis to its unusual collection of exhibits at a cost of £2,500 ($3,200) for a year.

The museum curator claims the rare piece belonged to an 18th Century Englishman who happened to become rigid as he was hanged.

A lack of oxygen to the brain - caused by this method of capital punishment - can lead to erections forming.

However, the penis has has not been verified by an independent historian.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History claims to have added a penis (pictured) to its unusual collection of exhibits at a cost of £2,500 ($3,200) for a year. Bizarrely, the rare piece belonged to an 18th Century Englishman who happened to become rigid as he was hanged, the curator claims. A lack of oxygen to the brain - caused by this method of capital punishment - can lead to erections forming. The attraction is not for the easily-offended as it also features ancient Chinese sex toys, numerous mummified animals, the skull of a cyclops and a jar what is claimed to be the late singer Amy Winehouse's poo (bottom right).