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According to the World Health Organization almost a third of the human population, around 2 billion people, have no access to clean restrooms. The Sulabh Museum, besides showing an interesting and historical collection, therefore educates the visitor in this important issue. It is divided in three sections, Ancient, Medieval and Modern.
Highlights
• Historical facilities from various ancient cultures
• Medieval examples including devices for European royalty
• Modern and future technologies
Additional Info
Duration: 2 to 3 hours
Starts: New Delhi, India
Trip Category: Sightseeing Tickets & Passes >> Attraction Tickets
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According to the World Health Organization almost a third of the human population, around 2 billion people, have no access to clean restrooms. The Sulabh Museum, besides showing an interesting and historical collection, therefore educates the visitor in this important issue. It is divided in three sections, Ancient, Medieval and Modern.
Highlights
• Historical facilities from various ancient cultures
• Medieval examples including devices for European royalty
• Modern and future technologies
Visit: Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, Palam Dabri Marg, New Delhi 110045 India
You will be picked up from your hotel and driven to Sulabh International Museum of Toilets.
The museum is the brainchild of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak. His painstaking efforts for marshaling even the minutest details about the development of toilet system in the world led to the establishment of this unique museum in 1992 in New Delhi. The exhibits, so collected, have been meticulously displayed chronologically. Thus, it showcases the development over the last five thousand years from the third millennium B.C. to the end of the 20th century.
The museum has three main sections:
The excavated main sites of that civilization at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in modern Pakistan and Dholavira and Lothal in Gujarat province of India have remnants of wells, bathing tanks, both overground and underground drains, toilets, soak-pits, roads and lanes.
Upon completion of your museum visit, you will be transferred back to your hotel.