Museums
The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art Museum Toilets
Some days are just fit for the crapper, like when it’s 44 and raining and you’ve got a meeting looming and all you really want to do is listen to music and wrap ourselves in a blanket. Instead, we’ll write out our monthly invoices and wrap up some projects, fix some bugs, and blog a little–and take a visit to the wonderful Art Museum Toilet Museum, our favorite kind of meta museum. Pictured at left, the RISD crapper, I took an amazingly well designed dump there once. (No I didn’t.) For the record, the Rubin has a really nice bathroom.
We look forward to contributing to their collection in the coming weeks! What are you most or least favorite Museum or LIbrary bathrooms? Do you keep a list like George Castanza of the best public places in which to relieve oneself?
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Yeah, I went to MoMA right after the completion of its expansion a few years ago. I was momentarily vexed by the bathroom door–I think there was a pull sign on a push door, or the handle was recessed into the plane of the door, making it difficult to grasp. I just remember thinking A. the museum of MODERN art should be in a MODERNIST building, where there’s a premium put on functionality; all the white rectilinear surfaces in the world don’t count for shit if it takes you more than 1/10th of a second to open a door, and B. This renovation cost more than $800 million.
I just peed in the Smith College Museum of Art’s bathroom, which was designed by Ellen Driscoll.
http://www.smith.edu/bfac/restroomgallery.php