Bathtub Art Museum

Bathtub Art Museum

This week I looked at the Bathtub Art Museum. It is a non-for-profit museum dedicated to the bathtub in art. The digitized pieces range from art bathtub birthday cakes, bathtub postcards from as early as the 1920s, physical bathtubs from bathhouses, comics about the bathtub, and works from tub "artists".

1. They appear to digitized anything and everything bathtub related. There is even a disclaimer at the bottom of the tub artist page that states: "We are always looking for new tub artists. If you are a tub artist or know someone, please contact the museum". They even managed to digitize birthday cakes that featured a bathtub. There is a section devoted to handmade postcards from not only the US but around the world. I have a feeling if you sent them something with a bathtub in it that they would put it right up on the museum site.

2. I was actually kind of impress by the metadata for each piece. I would have liked more detail into the physical features of the postcards as well as the dimensions of the actual bathtubs but they went into detail on what the bathtub cakes were made of as well as where the supplies were purchased.

3. The objects in the museum were presented very well. If I was a bathtub scholar of some sort I would be please by the many different bathtub objects. Most of the pictures allowed you to zoom click and gave the reader a background story/history lesson on the piece.

4. The intended is anyone who is interested in bathtubs in art or in advertisements/commercial endeavors. I thought the postcard sections would be of particular interest to any scholar who might be looking into the history of sexuality in society or at least postcard art.