Museum for Water, Bath and Design

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The Museum for Water, Bath and Design (also: Hansgrohe Museum ) is a private museum of the sanitary company Hansgrohe , which is operated at the company headquarters in Schiltach , Baden-Württemberg .

History and direction

The museum was founded in 1997 at the company's headquarters. In 2002 the exhibition was relocated to the Schiltacher Aue and was a traveling exhibition in Germany until the reopening. The exhibition was shown in the Deutsches Museum in Munich , in the Museum of Everyday Culture , in Waldenbuch Castle and in the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg . The museum has been part of the Hansgrohe Aquademie training and exhibition center since 2007.

The museum is supposed to show the European bathing culture since the Middle Ages, further the development of the sanitary trade from plumber to plumber and the history of the water supply. The company history of Hansgrohe is also presented. 700 years of “ bathroom culture ” are presented on the basis of historical exhibits , from the washbowl to the bathtub to the modern shower .

Exhibits

A plumber's workshop from 1910 gives an idea of ​​the craftsmanship with which kitchen utensils, lanterns and vessels were produced at that time using the old tools. It also provides information on the development of the plumbing trade. Historic bathtubs made of copper , polished to a high gloss or elaborately clad with mahogany , convey an impression of pomp and splendor in private bathrooms, as it was reserved for the "upper ten thousand" at the end of the 19th century. In the course of time, for hygienic reasons, the location of the tubs gradually changed from the bedroom and dressing room to specially created rooms in which the toilet was then also housed.

With its historical collection, the museum not only shows the highlights of bathroom history. The majority of the population was satisfied even the early 20th century with the weekly bath in the communal laundry room. The development in the years after the Second World War is evidenced by a prefabricated bathroom and bathrooms from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. On a tour of the achievements in sanitary technology, visitors will also discover modern classics, some of which are Hansgrohe products, e.g. For example, the first adjustable hand shower “Selecta” and the first colored fitting “Uno”, which was awarded the iF design prize in 1986. The French designer Philippe Starck has recently dealt with the subject of bathroom.

literature

  • Schiltach, Hansgrohe Museum . In: Museumblatt. Portraits of Baden-Württemberg museums . No. 39 (March 2005), ISSN  0939-6373 , p. 36.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Netmuseum - Museums & Exhibitions in Baden-Württemberg, accessed on July 26, 2013

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