International Toilet Museum

International Toilet Museum

International Toilet Museum is of interest to those interested in learning about the history of sanitation, hygiene, the evolution of toilets and how diverse their design can be. There are utilitarian exhibits from ancient times (the oldest ones date back to 2500 BC) to the present day. In the exposition visitors will see not only pots and toilets of different shapes, colors and sizes, but also related accessories, including, for example, bidet toilet lids and other modern sanitary ware.

Highlights

The collection of exhibits is from 90 countries and numbers several thousand. Here you can see a mobile toilet for outdoor trips of the Middle Ages in the form of a jewelry chest; and made of precious wood throne of French King Louis XII, which also served as a toilet; and the toilet of British Queen Victoria, made of pure gold.

Some of the exhibits on display in the exhibition are of the same type as the one on display here.

Some of the exhibits are accompanied by appropriate odors “made” with special chemicals. But the aesthetic side of the collection is favorably emphasized by many different poems and even poems dedicated to the toilets.

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Despite all its seeming frivolity, this museum is part of a large-scale project that has a huge educational function. The museum’s founder, sanitation expert Dr. Bindeshwara Pathak, hopes to use the museum to sensitize authorities to the acute shortage of public toilets in India and to enforce sanitation norms. Also, the museum’s goal is to help sewage equipment manufacturers improve the quality of their products.