Sala · Middle Ages
Medieval bathhouse
A reconstructed wooden bathhouse with a two-person tub introduces public bathing and the local history of bathhouse keepers.
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The wooden bathhouse is a reconstruction, not a historic building relocated to the museum. Its story draws on a former bathhouse on Mill Island and the figure of Tomasz the bathhouse keeper. This section includes a tub large enough for two people, which visitors can step into.
Public bathing in Bydgoszcz left a specific documentary record. In 1549, starosta Andrzej Kościelecki, the mayor and town council contracted Tomasz to build a bathhouse for the town's residents. It was built beside the Brda River. This local example complements the reconstruction: a bathhouse served the community, rather than being a private bathroom in a home.
The museum covers hygiene from antiquity to the present. The bathhouse reconstruction belongs to its medieval section, while the 1549 document introduces a later episode in the town's bathing history.
- Ubicación
- Medieval bathhouse · Museum of Soap and the History of Dirt · Medieval bathhouse
- Autoría u origen
- Muzeum Mydła i Historii Brudu
- Número de inventario
- PKT-MMHB-03
- bathhouse
- historical hygiene
- reconstruction
- for children
- history of hygiene