Our origin story

Susie Maguire is the creator of The Poop Museum and loves few things more than sharing her love of, and fascination with poop! But how did this all happen?

Susie had three baby brothers before her 5th birthday, so she had a lot of early exposure to poop and poop shenanigans! Poop wasn’t just ever present, it was also the source of much hilarity!

In her twenties, she began to travel the world in search of adventure, and met a defining character in her poop journey while traveling in the bush in Zimbabwe. One night, while sleeping on the roof of a boat on Lake Kariba, Susie was woken by what sounded like a chainsaw. Looking over the side of the boat, she discovered it was actually a pooping hippopotamus! It was love (and laughter and fascination) at first sight! Curiosity peaked, she began learning about poop and poopers as something of a hobby.

Her career was focused on learning and development for adults and children alike, but there was no poop in that mix until …

In 2019 Covid arrived and Susie took all of her work online. In October 2020, the idea for The Poop Museum plopped right into Susie’s head, and utterly enchanted and delighted with the idea, she launched the program the same day. Demand was immediate and immense and it was obvious from the start that the world shared Susie’s sense of fun and fascination with all things fecal.

After nearly 3000 online programs, and needing to escape her basement studio and return to the real world, Susie began to approach Children’s Librarians to ask if they would like a visit from The Poop Museum. The answer was a resounding yes please! and in the next few years 260+ libraries would host more than 350 Poop Museum programs.

The Poop Museum Part 2, and Part 3 were transformed from online to in-person programs and Night at The Poop Museum was born. Multiple Gross, Weird, Cool Science programs that had been created in the online world, also found an audience in the real world, and in 2025, Susie created an entirely new program (which delights her no end!) called Their BUTT does WHAT?!?!? which brought even more hilarity, and some very super cool butt science into the world! For example, did you know that praying mantis’ have 3D printer butts? Some ants can shoot acid out of their butts? And that dragon fly larvae and sea cucumbers all breathe through their butts?!

Oh the things that you can learn at these programs!!

The next evolution of The Poop Museum has arrived with Poop Camps for summer 2026, Build Your Own Poop Museum kits available, the introduction of a new program for teens and adults called Guts of Glory, partnerships to produce Science Saturdays and at looooong last … a PooTube channel …. woohoo! … so that millions more children and their adults can watch and laugh and learn about the wonderful world of poop and pooping!

There’s more amazing things planned for the future too, so do sign up for our newsletter and come along for the adventure!