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No place like home—The Plumbing Museum is back to Watertown

  • August 26, 2016
  • Sasha Parfenova
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On our last day in Wisconsin we visited the John Michael Kohler (JMK) Art Center and toured the many galleries and, yes, the washrooms! Check out some of the pictures from our visit below. The washrooms were commissioned to resident artists working in the Arts/Industry residency program at the Kohler plant. The residency is a […]

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A visit to Kohler, Wisconsin

  • August 22, 2016
  • Sasha Parfenova
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This week The Plumbing Museum is in for a real treat! We finally made it out to visit Kohler, WI that is home to Kohler Co.—one of the largest plumbing-ware manufacturing companies best known for its line of baths, sinks, toilets, and other bathroom fixtures. Today we visited the Kohler Design Center that included a […]

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NYC Trip

  • January 29, 2016
  • Sasha Parfenova
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This week the Plumbing Museum took a field trip to New York to visit the Tenement House Museum and the Museum of the City of New York. Both museums featured exhibits relevant to our current research project for an upcoming display on the history of early bathhouses and sanitation in America. For a common citizen […]

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New Toto Museum opens in Japan!

  • December 18, 2015
  • Sasha Parfenova
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Kitakyushu, Japan has opened a new Toto Museum designed to celebrate the company’s 100th anniversary. The museum features items ranging from early ceramic squatters to Toto’s signature generation of Washlet toilets. It’s great to see another Museum with the same unique passion as us. Click here to read the article!

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