Image copyright PA Image caption Twenty different types of excrement have been placed in resin spheres 
 
 A museum dedicated to excrement, with examples from the animal and human world, has opened to the public. 
 
 The exhibition at the Isle of Wight Zoo features faeces from animals such as elks and lions as well as a human baby. 
 
 The National Poo Museum has been created by members of the artist collective Eccleston George. 
 
 "Poo is all around us and inside us, but we ignore it," said co-curator Daniel Roberts. 
 
 Twenty illuminated resin spheres show off the different types of faeces with facts hidden behind toilet lids on the museum walls. 
 
 Image copyright PA Image caption Organisers prepared the faeces using a specially-built drying machine 
 
 Samples of faeces have been gathered from around the world as well as donations received from the Isle of Wight Zoo and Dinosaur Isle museum. 
 
 The display also includes fossilised poo (coprolites) dating back 140 million years as well as a tawny owl pellet containing bones and teeth. 
 
 It also covers issues such as dog mess and the lack of access to sanitation in developing countries. 
 
 Nigel George, one of the exhibition's curators, said the subject "provokes strong reactions". 
 
 "Small children naturally delight in it but later we learn to avoid this yucky, disease-carrying stuff, and that even talking about poo is bad," he said. 
 
 Image copyright PA Image caption The exhibition is set to go on a tour of the UK 
 
 "But for most of us, under the layers of disgust and taboo, we're still fascinated by it." 
 
 Organisers prepared the faeces using a specially-built drying machine - stick insect droppings were desiccated completely in about an hour, while lions' samples took a fortnight to dry out. 
 
 The attraction is on show at the Sandown zoo through the spring and summer before going on tour. ||||| Like us on Facebook 
 
 England will soon have a museum devoted entirely to everyone’s favorite topic: poop. A zoo on the Isle of Wight (located in the English Channel) is opening a new institution around the smelly, hilarious, and scientific world of excrement from both humans and animals, Hello Giggles reports. 
 
 The Isle of Wight Zoo will open the National Poo Museum on March 25, according to the Isle of Wight County Press. The exhibits will feature poopy specimens from lions, foxes, babies, and more, including fossilized feces from 38 million years ago. And yes, there will be freeze-dried poop hanging from the ceiling, because what kind of poop museum wouldn’t have that kind of decor? 
 
 While we all love a good poop joke, feces are worthy of serious study. Poop can be a dangerous substance: Thousands of children die every year from diarrheal diseases due to a lack of toilets, which forces people to poop out in the open, contaminating water supplies with sewage. Yet it’s also a potential resource. Some experts think feces could be a huge source of energy for the world. Healthy poop can help restore the balance of microbes in the gut, and might one day even be an obesity treatment. Whether we like it or not, poop is everywhere. 
 
 Just a few months ago, the world’s largest fossilized poop collection opened in Florida, and Japan just got its own toilet museum. All in all, it’s a great time to be an amateur poop-ologist. 
 
 [h/t Hello Giggles] ||||| 
 
 Like nearly every other creature on earth, we poo. With the right equipment you can find poo on almost any surface - it's everywhere and it’s inside us too. 
 
 
 
 Poo provokes strong reactions. Small children naturally delight in it but soon learn to avoid this yucky, disease-carrying stuff. Later, we learn that even talking about poo is bad. But for most of us, under the layers of disgust and taboo, the fascination remains. 
 
 
 
 Poo is important. We build huge networks of sewers to get rid of it. New research into our gut bacteria may the start of a medical revolution. We want to explore topics like these in a light-hearted way. 
 
 
 
 The National Poo Museum's mission is to lift the lid on the secret world of poo - to examine our relationship with it and to change forever the way we think about this amazing substance. 
 

– There is a museum for just about anything these days, and now, thanks to some pioneering folks in the UK, even those with poop fixations can get their fix thanks to the grand opening of the National Poo Museum at the Isle of Wight Zoo. The samples of feces range from scant insect excrement to gigantic elk and lion poo, as well as the doodoo of a human baby, reports the BBC. The museum even includes fossilized feces dating back some 38 million years, reports Mental Floss, and also covers the more metaphorically gross side of dung, such as the diseases spread without toilets or proper sanitation. In an innovative display that required a custom built drying contraption, the crap curators have placed the fetid samples in illuminated resin spheres that include related facts hidden behind toilet lids. And while it's billed as the first-ever museum devoted to poop, Huffington Post has tracked down two similarly themed endeavors, including a poop museum that opened in Italy last year and the one and only Mr. Toilet House in South Korea, which features statues of an assortment of mammals doing number two. Curator Nigel George, meanwhile, tells the BBC that "small children naturally delight" in the topic while "for most of us, under the layers of disgust and taboo, we're still fascinated by it." (What does a unicorn have to do with poop, anyway?)