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The freedom to explore,
in every stall.

A museum plans every detail of the visit — except the moment a guest gets her period and finds an empty, coin-operated dispenser. Free period products in every stall, as easy to stock and access as toilet paper, keep every visitor free to stay and explore.

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The day I got my period at the museum

A scholar spent her museum visit hunting for a tampon — not the art.

In a 2024 essay for the Journal of Autoethnography, professor and writer Dr. Sakina Jangbar recounts getting her period unexpectedly at a New York City museum — digging for quarters, riding the elevator between floors, and trying four broken, coin-operated dispensers before a staffer finally handed her a single tampon.

Her point lands hard for anyone who runs a cultural space: a museum can get the building, the ticketing, the exhibits, and the cleanliness exactly right, and still fail half its visitors at the one moment their body needs something basic.

Read the essay in the Journal of Autoethnography
“My spirit desires freedom, but my body has needs, and when they are left unmet, my desire for freedom is thwarted.”

“Is it too much to ask for … period products in public restrooms?” she writes. Pads on a Roll is that answer — free, in the stall, as normal as toilet paper.

Dr. Sakina Jangbar — “The Day I Got My Period at the Museum,” Journal of Autoethnography (2024)
The overlooked part of the visit

A world-class visit, undone by a dispenser from another century.

Museums obsess over the guest experience — wayfinding, cafés, membership, accessibility. But a visitor caught off guard still has to leave the gallery, find a restroom, dig for coins, and hope a decades-old dispenser isn't empty or jammed.

Making period products as normal as toilet paper is a concrete, high-gratification upgrade that lets guests stay in the galleries — and signals your institution takes every visitor's dignity seriously.

7 yrs
of her life the average visitor spends menstruating — some of it on your floors
1950s
the era most museum tampon dispensers still feel like: coins, jams, empties
½
of your audience served better by a fix as simple as free pads in the stall
Already in the galleries

Museums are already saying yes.

From maritime history in New England to a brand-new national museum in Abu Dhabi, Pads on a Roll is already in cultural institutions welcoming the public every day.

New Bedford Whaling Museum

New Bedford, Massachusetts

The largest museum devoted to the history of American whaling — welcoming school groups, members, and travelers through its galleries year-round.

The New York Historical

New York, New York

New York City's first museum, on Central Park West — a landmark drawing steady daily crowds to its galleries, library, and public programs.

Zayed National Museum

Abu Dhabi, UAE

The national museum of the United Arab Emirates in the Saadiyat Cultural District, opened December 2025 alongside the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The product

As easy to access as toilet paper — right in the stall.

Pads on a Roll mounts in every stall beside the toilet paper. Visitors just take one when they need it — no coins, no ancient vending machine, no trip to the front desk or first-aid office.

It installs in under five minutes, restocks like a roll of toilet paper, and costs a fraction of traditional dispensers — so it scales from a single restroom to every gallery floor in the building.

< 5 min
to install a dispenser in a stall — no vending machine, no coins
1/5
the space of boxed, vended pads
0
quarters, apps, or trips out of the stall
Built for cultural spaces

An amenity your visitors feel — and remember.

A low-cost, fast-to-install upgrade that turns a moment of stress into proof your institution was designed with every guest in mind.

A visit that stays whole

A guest caught off guard gets what she needs in the stall — and stays in the galleries instead of cutting the visit short.

Dignity and access for all

Free products in every stall extend the same accessibility mindset museums already apply to entrances, elevators, and captions — to menstruating bodies too.

Turnkey for facilities

Installs in minutes beside the toilet paper and refills in seconds, so it drops into historic buildings and new wings alike without new infrastructure.

Feedback you can measure

A QR code in every stall captures real, unprompted visitor feedback — experience data that's hard to gather anywhere else in the building.

Green by design

An amenity that fits a museum's stewardship story.

Pads on a Roll was built to be the low-waste choice — a natural fit for cultural institutions with sustainability and conservation commitments.

Plant-based option

Choose a plant-based version, tested compostable and biodegradable — a fit for institutions with sustainability and stewardship commitments.

A fraction of the packaging

Each tightly wound roll uses about a fifth of the packaging of boxed pads and takes half the space of folded pads — less waste, less storage.

Take only what you need

Visitors take a single pad from the roll, and rolls restock in seconds — no over-stuffed vending, no wasted product.

Proven in high-traffic public spaces

The reaction is the same wherever it's installed.

Pads on a Roll is already in museums, stadiums, airports, and hospitals across five countries. Here's what people write when they find it in the stall — the unprompted feedback that wins over decision-makers.

60+
venues and facilities already stocked worldwide
98%
of people surveyed would recommend the amenity
5
countries where Pads on a Roll is installed
What visitors actually write

Unedited feedback gathered by QR code in the stalls.

“I love this idea. It takes away the awkwardness of having to ask a stranger for something or having to walk out of the stall to get something and then having to go back in. LOVE LOVE LOVE”
Museum & campus visitor
“Having sanitary products available for free is amazing in itself but having them in the cubicles makes you feel even more discreet about it. 10/10 and wish I could see more of this in the world.”
Visitor, UK
“What a great way to make us feel comfortable even if we forget something. I absolutely love that this place started doing this!”
Visitor feedback
Read the full wall of love
Plan it for your building

See the coverage — and the cost you skip.

Size a program to your footprint and compare in-stall Pads on a Roll against coin dispensers, sink baskets, and providing nothing at all.

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Your building

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48
in-stall dispensers to cover the footprint
~1,920
free pads ready each day (40 per standard roll)
~3 hr
one-time install — under 5 minutes per stall, no vending machines
$14,400–33,600
hardware cost you skip vs. traditional vending machines
Across a year of operation that's roughly 480,000 free pads within reach — restocked in seconds, right where they're needed.
Why in-stall beats the alternatives
Where it is
In every stall, beside the toilet paper — no getting dressed to go find it
Upfront hardware
Low-cost dispenser — no $300–700 vending machine
Install
Under 5 minutes per stall — works in historic buildings and new wings
Restock
Swap a roll in seconds; 40 pads per standard roll (30 plant-based)
Visitor feedback
QR code in every stall captures unprompted responses
How it works

A turnkey program your facilities team will thank you for.

01

Book a demo

Tell us about your building and restrooms. We'll come back with a program sized for a single floor or the whole institution.

02

Mount in every stall

Low-cost dispensers install beside the toilet paper in under five minutes — exactly where visitors need them, no vending machine required.

03

Restock like toilet paper

Rolls refill in seconds and cost a fraction of traditional dispensers, so coverage scales across every gallery floor and public restroom.

04

Hear the response

A QR code in every stall captures real, unprompted visitor feedback so you can see the impact on your guests.

Book a demo

Give every visitor the freedom to explore.

Tell us about your building — we'll come back with a program sized for a single floor or your whole institution.

  • A rollout plan sized to a single floor or the whole institution
  • Restocking built for high-traffic public restrooms
  • Real visitor-feedback data from comparable museum installs