By Jack Fifield

A museum has launched an exhibit on different types of poo in response to primary school pupils’ questions.

Thackray Museum of Medicine , in Leeds, West Yorks., opened the exhibit, simply named ‘POO!’ on Saturday, July 26.

Local primary school pupils had asked questions such as ‘why is a fart colourless?’ and ‘how do you get constipated?’, which led museum bosses to come up with the idea.

Museum-goers will be able to explore poo through ‘smell, touch and discovery’, according to the museum, with the exhibit answering questions such as why poo smells and why it is brown.

Star exhibits include a real-life 12th-century medieval poo, a proctogram chair used when understanding issues with bowel movements, and a ‘poo sphere’ – a crystal sphere featuring animal poo enca

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