Toilet Tales

Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing is a new gallery at the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets exploring how sanitation shaped the course of everyday life, design, and social reform in England from the 16th to the 20th century.

Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing is a new gallery at the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets exploring how sanitation shaped the course of everyday life, design, and social reform in England from the 16th to the 20th century.

Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing is a new gallery at the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets exploring how sanitation shaped the course of everyday life, design, and social reform in England from the 16th to the 20th century.

November, 2025

Research & Content

Design & Curation

Curated, researched, and designed by Cultre for the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing explores how sanitation shaped the course of everyday life, design, and social reform in England from the 16th to the 20th century.

Curated, researched, and designed by Cultre for the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing explores how sanitation shaped the course of everyday life, design, and social reform in England from the 16th to the 20th century.

Curated, researched, and designed by Cultre for the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, Toilet Tales: Pits to Plumbing explores how sanitation shaped the course of everyday life, design, and social reform in England from the 16th to the 20th century.

The exhibition brings together archival research, museum interpretation, and spatial design to tell an unlikely but vital story of how toilets, baths, and soaps became markers of progress and civility. Through objects drawn from the museum’s collection, Toilet Tales traces the shift to the emergence of the flush toilet and modern bathroom. Each object reveals evolving ideas of hygiene, privacy, and social behaviour, reflecting the changing rhythms of domestic and public life.

Cultre’s work spanned every stage of the project, from concept and content development to exhibition design and visual storytelling. The team examined archival materials, period illustrations, and industrial patents to situate each artifact within its historical and social context. The spatial and graphic design balanced information and playfulness, inviting audiences to see sanitation as both an engineering feat and a cultural mirror.

Cultre’s work spanned every stage of the project, from concept and content development to exhibition design and visual storytelling. The team examined archival materials, period illustrations, and industrial patents to situate each artifact within its historical and social context. The spatial and graphic design balanced information and playfulness, inviting audiences to see sanitation as both an engineering feat and a cultural mirror.

Cultre’s work spanned every stage of the project, from concept and content development to exhibition design and visual storytelling. The team examined archival materials, period illustrations, and industrial patents to situate each artifact within its historical and social context. The spatial and graphic design balanced information and playfulness, inviting audiences to see sanitation as both an engineering feat and a cultural mirror.

By tracing England’s sanitation journey, the exhibition connects the local histories of design and reform to Sulabh’s own mission of advocating for universal sanitation and social change.

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