Pictures of the former physical museum (where I took these dress photos).
Norwegian museum exhibit
Canadian costume made from menstrual pads
Menstrual poison (menotoxin)
Disposal bags for menstrual napkins from around the world
German menstrual pad brand featuring a prostitute.
What causes menstrual odor?
Suspenders to hold pads
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

Dress made of Instead menstrual cups and fabric (1990s, U.S.A.) used in publicity by the cup's maker, Ultrafem

Part of the fun of having created the museum is receiving unexpected contributions.

In 1998, after the first Instead company (Ultrafem) failed, former officials of the company sent me the letter at right.

Another staff member told me that Audrey Contente, the inventor of the cup, made and wore the dress on many occasions. A laboratory at my alma mater, Johns Hopkins, developed Instead, members of which visited the museum when MUM was in my house. One member donated her homemade Halloween costume that the interviewer for Comedy Central's Daily Show wanted to wear.

Another company now makes Instead.

MORE menstrual cups
Pictures of the former physical museum (where I took these dress photos).
Norwegian museum exhibit
Canadian costume made from menstrual pads
Menstrual poison (menotoxin)
Disposal bags for menstrual napkins from around the world
German menstrual pad brand featuring a prostitute.
What causes menstrual odor?
Suspenders to hold pads
I thank Tonya G. Hinch, Office of the CEO, Sr. VP, Marketing & Sales; and Dori Reap, Office of the CEO, Sr. VP & CFO, of the former Ultrafem company for donating this dress!

Below: The dress is heavy, about 9 pounds (about 4.1 kilos).
The underskirt, which supports and expands the dress, is
missing in the photo and can be seen here.
All photos copyright 2008 Harry Finley
 
Below: Back of dress with its long zipper.
I wish I could say the palm betrays my Tahitian location
but it came from a Safeway supermarket when the museum
was open near Washington, D.C.
 

NEXT: details, underskirt || MORE menstrual cups
Pictures of the former physical museum (where I took these dress photos).
Norwegian museum exhibit
Canadian costume made from menstrual pads
Menstrual poison (menotoxin)
Disposal bags for menstrual napkins from around the world
German menstrual pad brand featuring a prostitute.
What causes menstrual odor?
Suspenders to hold pads

Copyright 2008 Harry Finley