London Museum Removes Russell Brand’s Pubic Hair Exhibit

Viktor Wynd, curator of his museum of strange objects, artworks and unusual history in Hackney, said he removed the item after Russell Brand’s conviction and sentencing. Wynd said he had “no desire to hear his name again” and that Brand had no place in his museum of horrors.

On November 9, Brand was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to 10 years and six months in prison. A jury found him guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others, in incidents involving four women between 2004 and 2009. He was cleared of two additional rape allegations and an attempted indecent assault charge.

The hair had been part of Wynd’s collection for more than a decade. A 2016 account said a woman sent it to him after claiming she had shaved Brand at a Camden Town salon, along with a handwritten note. Its authenticity has not been independently verified.

The museum, which opened on Mare Street in 2014, is arranged as a cabinet of curiosities and displays unsettling objects, specimens from the natural world and items connected to celebrities. Among the exhibits are shrunken heads, two-headed animals, dodo bones and a lock of hair belonging to Elvis Presley. The venue also features a bar serving absinthe and cocktails, run by the Last Tuesday Society.