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Laundry Museum
 “Spa has always been a popular town for its waters. Many women in Spa were able to make a living taking in laundry for the hotels and the people taking the waters in the town. On this webpage, we pay tribute to all those washerwomen, laundresses and ironers who, in the shadow of their workshop or laundry, have washed the clothes of Peter the Great, the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, Queen Marie-Henriette and Albert Einstein.
Do you know how our grandmothers did the laundry?
“Do you know how your grandmother and great-grandmother did the laundry? Do you know the products the women used to wash the linen before soap was invented? Why were so many public wash-houses built in the mid-19th century? What was the ancestor of the iron? Why do we put linen on the grass to "whiten"? For answers to all these questions, and to find out much more about how women (rarely men) have done the laundry since antiquity until today, we invite you to visit the laundry museum at Spa.
"Avisit, all in pictures, will give you a taste of a museum that recounts an important chapter in the social and economic life ofSpa in the past. A living museum like no other.”
18 Oct 2012 14:58:32
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