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A Better Way to Go
Toilets and the Future of Sanitation

"A Better Way to Go: Toilets and the Future of Sanitation" highlights new innovations, powerful stories, toilets of the future, art installations, and visions of resilient and sustainable sanitation systems that can move the needle on this critical issue and save lives.

  • Visitors in the Designing Motherhood gallery space

    Digital Collection

    Maternal, newborn, & child health digital collection

    The Gates Foundation houses an array of objects related to work within the foundation’s priority areas, including global health, education, and gender…

  • Mwanaidi Rhamdani (orange shirt) works with a group of fellow farmers in an orange-fleshed sweet potato field in Mwasonge, Tanzania.

    On view

    Climate-Smart Village

    Climate change affects nearly every aspect of agriculture. See how innovations supported by foundation partners are making a difference.

  • A gallery shot of the "Our Work" gallery featuring visitors looking at exhibits on display in the Discovery Center.

    On view

    Our work gallery

    At the Discovery Center, you'll see examples of how we work with partners around the world to fight disease, gender inequality, make…

  • Close up of the share your cause rack in the Discovery Center. Visitors can personalize a card and hang on the rack during their visit.

    On view

    Get involved gallery

    How would you change your community for the better? We share all sorts of ways you can make a difference.

  • Two young adult visitors examine a reinvented toilet on display at the Gates Foundation Discovery Center.

    On view

    What’s next

    Learn about exciting new projects we’re supporting, some based on cutting-edge science and others super low-tech and low-cost.

  • Past

    Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births

    This exhibition explores the arc of human reproduction through the lens of art and design. While being born is a universal human…