See art by Mayra Alpízar | Carlota Berard | Jennifer Boe | Roz Bonnet | Luiza Brown | Nikoline Calcaterra | Judy Chicago | Selin Cileli | Maldoror Capvt Corvi | Maribel Cruz | Thomasin Durgin | Natalie Aniela Dybisz | Elvira | Anne Encephalon | Hélène Epaud | Quiara Z. Escobar | Fanni Fazekas | Pat Fish | Julie Gaw | Gina |  Kat Grandy | Martina Hoffmann (1 & 2) | Jelena | Judy Jones | Margaret Kalms | Brina Katz | Lorraine Lamothe | Ria Lee | Sharon Lee | Lana Leitch | Carol Nathan Levin | Katy Luxion | Sarah McCutcheon | Isa Menzies | Megan Morris | M. Parfitt | Petra Paul | Ana Elena Pena | Melina Piroso | Elentye Paulauskas-Poelker | Leigh Radtke | Jacquelyn Rixon | Isa Sanz | Vladislav Shabalin | Nelson Soucasaux | Paula Speakman | Alexandra Steiner | Melina Szapiro | Von Taylor | Jean Tracy | Joseph Tonna | Jessica Wagner | Jennifer Weigel | Terry Wunderlich | Tamara Wyndham | New Guinea menstrual hut carving Art of Menopause by Coni Minneci Ancient Peruvian menstrual art If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM Marie Claire magazine (Italian edition) featured several of the above artists in an article about this museum and menstruation in 2003. The newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine Dishy (Turkey) showed some of the artists in 2005 in articles about this museum. 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 | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | 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. The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health Menstrual blood pictures by Petra Paul (Vienna, Austria) page 1     All pictures are 30 x 21 centimeters (about 11.1 x 8.2 inches) and use the artist's menstrual blood. NEXT page 2, 3, 4 Interview with Petra Paul (Next artist: Ana Elena Pena) Synopsis of her career. Petra Paul writes (Harry Finley's translation of her e-mail from German, which follows the cartoon), Dear Harry, I'm happy that you're showing my pictures on your homepage. I've had the most varied reactions to the exhibited pictures here in Vienna - some were negative. But those are mostly from women who are disgusted by pictures of menstrual blood. That inspired me to draw the cartoon that I've sent you [below]. How did you get the idea of starting a menstruation museum? I think it's great what you're doing - this museum is probably unique. Greetings from Vienna, Petra    Translation of Ms. Paul's cartoon: Box 1: "Blah, blah, blah, 33" - "I'm 13" - "14" Box 2: "I've got to go to the toilet." Box 3: "AAAARGH" Box 4: "Screech!" Box 5: "Many women can't tolerate the sight of blood. Therefore they're in a coma 3-4 days every month." Petra Paul 2003 Original e-mail, translated above: Lieber Harry, es freut mich, dass Sie meine Bilder auf Ihre Homepage stellen. Habe hier in Wien die verschiedensten Reaktionen auf die ausgstellten Bilder erlebt - manche waren negativ. Es sind aber meist Frauen, die sich vor Menstruationsblutbilder ekeln. Dadurch wurde ich zu einem Comic inspiriert, der Ihnen gesandt wird. Wie kamen Sie eigentlich auf die Idee, ein Menstruationsmuseum zu machen? Ich finde es toll, was Sie machen - dieses Museum ist wohl einzigartig. Liebe Grüße aus Wien Petra More menstrual blood pictures by Petra Paul: NEXT page 2, 3, 4 Interview with Petra Paul Interview with Petra Paul and synopsis of her career You can see another of her pictures on: http://petrapaul.beepworld.de/ E-mail her at petrapaulvienna@yahoo.de NEXT page 2, 3, 4 Interview with Petra Paul NEXT artist: Ana Elena Pena See all the artists in the links in the left-hand column. If you create or own art concerning menstruation or menopause and are interested in showing it on these pages (it's free!), contact MUM © 2003, 2014 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org