The Museum of the History of Toilets in Kiev is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Will it survive the devastating Russian rocket attacks?
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One of the few world museums dedicated to toilets is in Kiev, the capital of independent Ukraine bombed by Russian troops. It is worth paying him a virtual visit before the “collateral damage” accidentally destroys its unique collections.
The Toilet History Museum is a private museum founded in Kiev by a married couple of businessmen and hygiene history enthusiasts, Nikolay and Marina Bogdanenko. It was opened in September 2007. It is on the list of the 10 most popular and interesting museums in Ukraine.
It is located in "Tower number 5", on Rybalska Street No. 22. The tower was part of the fortifications of the Kyiv Fortress and was finished in 1846 for a Russian army as a warehouse with provisions and ammunition. Today, the tower houses one of the largest business centers in Kiev and the world's largest collection of toilets and related souvenirs, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
The museum's exhibits are arranged chronologically according to the history of human development: "Prehistory", "Antiquity", "Middle Ages", "Rebirth", "XVII - XXI Century" and "ART WC".
We invite you to visit it, temporarily virtually, in person in the near future!
For details visit:
http://museumtoilet.com.ua/en/
The School Director, Mr. JörnBuck, gave a warm welcome to the honorary guests, the teachers and the pupils. Official speeches were delivered by Senator Ties Rabe, the Chairman of the Guild of Installers and Plumbers Mr. Fritz Schellhorn, and Mr. Bottländer, head of personnel at e.on-Hanse.
Dr. Ortwin Pelc, from the Museum of Hamburg History, delivered a comprehensive lecture on the achievements of William Lindley in Hamburg. His lecture was illustrated with many great photographs from the collections of the Museum.
Eugen Deubner and Rainer Schulz, Chairman of Hamburger Institut für Berufliche Bildung (which is the organizational unit managing all the vocational schools of Hamburg) were asked to unveil the sculpture and the sign with the new name of the school.
Eugen Deubner’s short speech ended with handing over a gift to the headmaster - a framed copy of the picture of the famous section of the sewage canal designed by William Lindley for Warsaw. The design was made in the workshop of William H. Lindley in Frankfurt am Main and included a bilingual description in German and Polish.
Ryszard Żelichowski, acting as the president of Societas Lindleiana, congratulated the Director on the perfect organization of this event and the excellent idea of giving the school the name of William Lindley. He also passed on to Mr. Buck a letter of congratulations from the chairman of the board of the Water Supply and Sewage Company in Warsaw, together with a copy of the album “125 years of Warsaw Municipal Waterworks 1886-2011”.
For more details and more photographs see our: E-library
The picture shows (from the left to right) William Heerlein Lindley, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev and imaginary translator on the construction-site.
We find the picture extremely fine and accurate. The Board of Societas Lindleiana congratulates Mr. Mehbaliyev an excelent idea and great artistic talent!
And artist himself:
Local media enthusiastically published the work and information about the author:
English:
On the December 29, 2017, on the website of the city of Mannheim Sabine Pich published an article entitled "It was him who built a sewage system in Mannheim (Er baute Mannheims Abwassersystem)".
Picture 1 and 2 - Mannheim
Picture 3 - łódź
Original text, see: https://www.mannheim.de/de/nachrichten/er-baute-mannheims-abwassersystem
The month of December marks the 100th anniversary of the death of William Heerlein Lindley. We will celebrate it together with the inhabitants of Ochota, the district most connected with the creators of our sewerage and waterworks system as well as the plan of our city.
On December 6 we will be hosted by the Library "Under the Wings"
located at ul. Grójecka No. 109 (corner of Dickens street). The most convenient
connection - tram no. 9.