A museum has encouraged visitors to get more comfortable with their poop by creating a space dedicated to the bowel movement.
Unko Museum in Yokohama, Japan, is decorated with pastel-colored poop — called ‘unko’ in Japanese — in attempt to de-stigmatize human waste, and turn the less-than-attractive concept of a bowel movement into an Instagram-worthy moment for all travelers.
‘Generally, poop has a negative impression as dirty and stinky,’ said Ayami Tashiro, a spokeswoman for Akatsuki Inc., the company that organized the show. ‘We thought we can offer entertainment that no one has experienced before.’
Nothing like it: Unko Museum in Yokohama, Japan, opened in March to celebrate poop through a series of interactive exhibits
Jumping for poo! The museum involves colorful poop and interactive experiences for visitors, including a room filled with large excrement
Fun times: The museum was named ‘unko’ because the word means ‘poop’ in Japanese
Time for fun: The museum includes a poop-focused ball pit that people can enjoy
‘There is no dirty brown poop in Unko Museum,’ a representative for the museum added to CNN Travel. ‘It’s all colorful, cute and pop design poop.’
Visitors are encouraged to watch, touch, grab and play the different colorful poop scattered around the entire museum, which will remain open until the beginning of August.
Visitors can buy poop-shaped trinkets with a wall for them to draw their own poop.
‘Poop had negative impression to me, but these cute images have changed turned into a good impression,’ Aya Kumazawa, one of the visitors said.
When attending the museum, people will walk through three different areas that play off the word ‘unko. There is the ‘un’teractive, ‘un’sta-genic, and ‘un’telligence zones all boasting different experiences.
Included in the interactive museum is the ability for visitors to sit on brightly colored fake toilets, as well as draw pictures of what their own bowel movements look like.
Visitors can also play in a ball pit and, for course, take selfies in front of large pastel-colored excrement toys set up inside the museum.
The roughly 1,000 visitors who come each day to the poop-themed museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, are also encouraged to share pictures of exhibits on social media and to shout ‘unko’ into a microphone.
Priorities: The goal of the museum is to de-stigmatize the bowel movement for the public
Selfie time: The museum encourages people to take pictures and share their experience on social media. It saw nearly 10,000 visitors the first week
Come while you can! Tickets for the interactive experience cost $16 for adults and about $9 for children, but the museum is only open until the beginning of August
Get the merch: It wouldn’t be a museum without the ability for attendees to purchase mementos to take home with them
As part of the ‘un’teractive art display, people will play a came called the ‘kuso game’, which translates to ‘sh**’ in Japanese. The game entails the player to step on poo-shaped light projections. When someone steps on the light poop, it splatters.
The purpose of embracing the bowel movement in the fun and interactive museum is to help de-stigmatize poop for the public.
Colorful: In the center of the museum’s ball pit is a large poo-shaped sculpture that alters colors
Unko Museum first opened on March 15 and experienced more than 10,000 visitors in the first week, CNN reports.
Social media was then flooded with hilarious and creative pictures of people holding fake poop and squatting on toilets.
Tickets for the interactive experience cost $16 for adults and about $9 for children.
The museum is not the first to great an interactive experience for visitors. Other museums, such as the Museum of Ice Cream and the Disgusting Food Museum, started popping up in large cities in previous years.
All of these experiences boast colorful and interactive moments for the Instagram-savy person to take pictures of for their own accounts.
But the poop museum is in a league, or drain, of its own.