Sulabh international museum of toilets

Located in a quiet region on the outskirts of the city of New Delhi, India, Sulabh International museums  of toilets was built for the purpose o propagation hygiene  quality to people . Inside is a concrete building, the  tour guide and  museum curator  always excited waiting for passengers to visit. museum is small and only a long room but it is a "world of the toilet".

Hygiene and sanitation is one of the urgent problems of India. According to statistics, 60% of the population of this country are defecating in public places because they can not or do not have clean toilets, private. . In 1970, Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak is also the humanitarian activist society found on the ideas and establish social service organization Sulabh International..  At first people laughed at his idea, but more than 15 million people across India were used  toilets built by Sulabh International (a non-profit organization which Bindeshwar Pathak founded) With 50,000 volunteer participants, Sulabh International is the largest nonprofit organization in India.

International Museum Sulabh Sanitation was established in 1992 to promote safe hygiene practices across India. It is built and maintained hundreds of public toilets in major cities, including tourist attractions such as the Red Fort in Delhi, the Taj Mahal in Agra, as well as towns and villages around India.

Currently the museum is keeping many unique  image collections  and artifacts related to the history of the development of toilets around the world since the time of 2500 years BC to the present. Thereby, visitors have an overview about the development of the WC from ancient times to modern.

Sulabh Museum is a place to showcase toilet style brick of the old medieval Harappa, copies of Louis XIV toilet tank was built attached to the throne, until modern toilet models.A number of precious objects in museums can mention the flush tank of Sir John Harrington, assistant there from Queen Elizabeth I in 1596, the seat of the Austrian restroom, a French toilet designed as stack of books, or the rest of the UK in the form of treasure chests.

Around the museum wall is a series of poems, comics, jokes or cartoons related to the toilet. Since opening day until now, the museum welcomed 100,000 visitors.