Dressing Museum

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In Kiev, opened a "Museum of the toilet" ... An unusual exhibition is located in the historic part of the capital in the Kiev Pechersk fortress of the nineteenth century ...





This is the first exhibition where you can see the secret place where people go at different times of need. A unique collection gathered over 12 years, and it has no analogues in Europe ...



The museum has a wooden stool prison, English Victorian water closet of the second half of the XIX century, the German portable ceramic bidets first half of the XIX century, Victorian night Vase second half of the XIX century ...



The evolution of toilets from prehistoric times to the present day passes before the eyes of visitors, offering them a glimpse into the future and this is inseparable from the human subject articles ...



The inventor of the toilet believe Leonardo da Vinci. The great humanist was outraged to see how the inhabitants of polluted corners of the Louvre in Paris - since the fashion for personal chamber pots ...



First for highborn ladies ... At the exhibition you can see chamber pots Napoleon, Churchill, Queen Elizabeth, and three hundred toilets ...



Louis XIII, for example, ordered the masters of toilet in the form of a throne, and on hunting carried a camp chest ... In a life-size exhibits, the museum collected souvenir version of latrines ...



According to statistics, a person spends in the bathroom for a total of about two years of life - and it's better to spend time with the comfort ...



"The history of toilets - it is the history of civilization ... - says the museum's director Nikolai Bogdanenko - Yes, this issue makes us smile, we talk about it with humor. But, thank God, it's not politics, not war, not the money, it is a pleasure ... ยป



By the way, the entrance to the museum is absolutely free ...



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