Temporary Exhibitions

This unusual exhibition examines how our idea of beauty, as well as the tools we use to achieve 'the look', have changed over the past 150 years. The mini-exhibition features early electrical health apparatus, as well as electrical grooming gadgets dating from the second half of the 19th century to present day. Some of the advertisements that were used to market them are also featured. The museum is displaying many of these devices for the first time.

• "Try-New-Life C" Electric Vibrating Massager
• "Davis & Kidder" Magneto
• Electric Waving Iron
• "Marcel Model 8" Curling Iron
• Electrotherapy Device with Electrolysis Depilatory Accessory
• Table Model Hair Dryer, with soft bonnet
• Solar Table Lamp: Ultraviolet Light with Quartz Bulb and Mercury Vapour
• "Roll-A-Matic" Men's Electric Shaver
• Curling Iron Heater
• "Eskimo no. 775" Hair Dryer