Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets

Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets

RZ-83, Sulabh Bhavan, Mahavir Enclave, Palam-Dabri
Marg. New Delhi.
Phone.: 25031518-19, 25032617/2654, 25055950
Timing : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Closed : Sunday

The founder of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak envisioned this one of the unique museums, which has a rare collection of facts, pictures and objects detailing the historic evolution of toilets from 2500 BC to date and provides a chronological account of developments relating to technology, toilet related social customs, toilet etiquettes, prevailing sanitary conditions and legislative efforts of the times.

 

The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in Delhi is a museum run by the Sulabh International, which is dedicated to the global history of sanitation and toilets. According to Time magazine, the museum is one of the weirdest museums among the "10 museums around the world that are anything but mundane". It was established in 1992 by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, a social activist, founder of Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement, recipient of national and international awards including the Stockholm Water Prize in 2009. His objective in establishing this museum was to highlight the need to address the problems of the sanitation sector in the country, considering the efforts made in various parts of the world in this field since the third millennium BC.