The glass used to suck the water, several times a day and from different sources, is an indispensable accessory for the curator and will be honoured in this exhibition. Its cousin, the souvenir glass, often decorated, always well cared for, sometimes a rare object, a testimony to the stay in the spa, will keep company. The other spa accessories, such as the cases for transporting the glasses, will also be highlighted. Thanks to private collectors who have collected glasses from all over Europe, rare pieces, even unique, and to the collections of the Museum of the City of Waters, an original part of thermalism will be evoked, as well as a forgotten work, that of the water donors. These women, who ensured cleanliness, hygiene of consumption, who were mediators between doctors and healthy waters, who listened to patients, were for them the most concrete face of healing and sometimes their confidants...
Museums of the spa town, Avenue Reine Astrid 77b 4900 Spa Museums of the spa townThe glass used to suck the water, several times a day and from different sources, is an indispensable accessory for the curator and will be honoured in this exhibition.
Its cousin, the souvenir glass, often decorated, always well cared for, sometimes a rare object, a testimony to the stay in the spa, will keep company.
The other spa accessories, such as the cases for transporting the glasses, will also be highlighted.
Thanks to private collectors who have collected glasses from all over Europe, rare pieces, even unique, and to the collections of the Museum of the City of Waters, an original part of thermalism will be evoked, as well as a forgotten work, that of the water donors. These women, who ensured cleanliness, hygiene of consumption, who were mediators between doctors and healthy waters, who listened to patients, were for them the most concrete face of healing and sometimes their confidants…
