Description of the attraction
Kiev never ceases to amaze with its unusual museums. One of them is considered to be the Museum of the History of the Toilet, which was opened relatively recently - in September 2007. The museum is located in the museum complex Kiev Fortress, more precisely in the old defensive tower of the fortress. The tower was built in the first half of the 19th century. For more than a century this tower was used by the military as a warehouse, but in 1999, after the reconstruction, the tower housed the office of the company that carried out the reconstruction, and later the Museum of the History of the Toilet itself, which turned out to be the first museum of its kind in the territory of the former USSR.
The exposition of the museum is divided into several sectors, differing in the artistic idea and chronology of the samples presented. The exhibition tries to cover almost all periods of the modern toilet, from the Victorian era pot, the first classic water closet to ultra-modern Japanese models, stuffed with electronics no worse than spaceships. The so-called first sector, which imitates a guardhouse with exposed “parasha”, which was used by the prisoners, stands apart. For this purpose, a real punishment cell was even built with a barrel-shaped "parasha" and a prisoner's dummy.
The collection of the Museum of the History of the Toilet is quite extensive - it contains three hundred exhibits of toilet bowls alone, made of metal, porcelain and stone. There is even a pendant in the shape of a toilet bowl, made of silver. There is even a model of a toilet in the collection, and with a drain system, which was used by the inhabitants of the island of Crete five thousand years ago. In addition to toilets in the museum, you can also see exhibits related to them. An information system was set up specially for visitors, with the help of which they get an opportunity to get closer to the details of interest to them regarding the development of toilets.
