Description
Family exhibition about the Roman, Islamic and Dutch bath cultures.
While washing and bathing were strongly discouraged in Europe in the Middle Ages, there was a rich bath culture in the Islamic world which had arisen out of the Greek and Roman tradition of public bathhouses. Visitors to the exhibition can experience the different atmospheres in a theatrical arrangement of Dutch changing cubicles, an Eastern Hammam and a Roman bathhouse. ‘Sound showers’ supply interviews with bathhouse visitors, recordings of bathhouse sounds, and passages about bathhouses from historic and erotic literature. An odour-trail and funny games make the experience even more intense. The highpoint of the exhibition is an interactive CD-I programme with which visitors can virtually walk round various bathhouses from today and from the past.
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