If you have a thing for toilets (and who doesn’t?), then you’re in luck. There is another lavatory-related museum to add to the list. We’ve told you about the Toilet Seat Art Museum, Munich’s Chamber Pot Museum, and let’s not forget the late, great Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue. But now Prague has its own official Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets, which has made a big splash since it opened not even a year ago. With over 2,000 items, visitors can see a chamber pot made from a WWII German army helmet, a Japanese “Washiki” squat toilet, and the so-called Bordelu chamber pots from France. The latter dates from the reign of King Louis XIV, who banned women from leaving court to answer the call of nature, so they literally placed these pots underneath these dresses. How pleasant! There are also famous ones, like those used by Napoleon Bonaparte, the Chinese Emperor Chien-Lung, Abraham Lincoln and travelers on the Titanic. If you’re wondering how this all started. Well, it began with a toilet of course. Museum owner Jan Sedlacek bought a 10-century fortress near Prague and discovered a historic toilet inside. “That’s how it started: we wanted to know how people did it back then.”
Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets, Prague, Czech Republic
