Room · 19th century to the interwar period
Bathroom
A tub, water-heating stove and early shower show the technical equipment of a historic town-house bathroom.
Content language
The bathroom presents equipment associated with bathing in the 19th century. Alongside the tub are a stove for heating water and an early predecessor of the modern shower. They date from a time when preparing a warm bath required a separate source of heat.
Bydgoszcz industry also supplied sanitary equipment. Harmann Israelowicz's factory made bathing appliances and toilets, including pipe systems that carried hot water to a bath. From 1893, residents without mains water could use hand pumps designed by engineer Samuel Zimmer.
The display represents a prosperous town household's bathing room in the late 19th century. Two toilets are also presented in this section, adding to the picture of historic sanitary furnishings.
- Location
- Bathroom · Museum of Soap and the History of Dirt · Bathroom
- Author or origin
- Muzeum Mydła i Historii Brudu
- Reference
- PKT-MMHB-04
- bathroom
- cast-iron tub
- prototype shower
- hygiene
- for adults and children