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An Afternoon At The Poo Museum
Welcome to the Poo Museum!
Poo rules at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation! Their current special exhibit tells you everything you always wanted to know about that most human and unmentionable of subjects, and it’s helpfully narrated by a series of talking toilets. You can even don a poo hat and flush yourself down the giant toilet slide to follow the journey of those infamous brown trout as they wend their way through the Tokyo sewer system!
Who can resist singing along with a chorus of educational toilets?
Birds do it, bees do it, and so do (left to right) pandas, sumatran tigers and giraffes. (Am I the only one who is surprised that giraffe turds are so small?)
Super Pooman not only demonstrates the pinnacle of poo pulchiritude by being banana-like in color and shape, he imparts essential information about color, size and shape so you can secretly analyze your own.
You KNOW you’ve always wanted to ask these questions!
For the experiential learner, these handy models.
Toilet Hall Of Fame: would you prefer the golden throne that graced the Japan Industry Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai? Or how about the space station toilet (for all your anti-gravity needs)? Or perhaps the rhinestone commode is more your style (it’s encrusted with 72,000 of those blingy babes.)
And finally, strap on your trusty poo hat and take the plunge!
Sadly, this is not a permanent exhibit at the Miraikan – it only runs until October 5th, 2014.
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You’d think this exhibit would be really crappy, but it deserves to be throned.
Poop.
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Ahahahaha those were ripe for the picking.
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I just…well…words escape me.
One of my clients tried to sell some pre-school poo-related educational materials in the States. I told them it wouldn’t fly but they didn’t believe me. Sorry, guys. I know it’s a natural function, but it is simply taboo in the States.
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I know, right? I was surprised when I first came here at how many “bodily function” things were treated and discussed without any embarrassment – everything from farting in TV commercials to helping obviously drunk people on the subway. There’s a completely different set of “unmentionables” in Japan!
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