Cork Butter Museum

Cork Butter Museum
Músaem Im Corcaigh
Location within Ireland
Established 1985
Location Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Coordinates 51°54′10″N 8°28′36″W / 51.902694°N 8.476700°W / 51.902694; -8.476700
Type Butter museum
Curator Peter Foynes
Website www.corkbutter.museum

The Cork Butter Museum (Irish: Músaem Im Corcaigh) is a museum that documents the history of butter production and sale in County Cork, and is housed in the former Cork Butter Market.

History

A display of early butter brands in the Cork Butter Museum.
A display of early butter brands in the Cork Butter Museum.

The Cork Butter Market building is situated in the Shandon area of the city,[1] with the building dating from 1849.[2] Shandon was the largest Shambles (open-air butcheries) in Ireland, and the Exchange was located within this commercial area. During the Exchanges peak in the 19th-century, Cork was the largest exporter of butter in the world, with butter exported as far as Australia and India.[3]

Contents

The Museum documents the important role of the butter trade to Ireland over the course of history. In particular the Museum is concerned with the international Butter Exchange in the 19th-century, the domestic production of butter, and the success of Kerrygold in recent times. The displays document elements of Irish commercial, social and domestic history.[1][4] The exhibitions bring the visitor through the various elements of butter production, from dairy cattle farming, to the documents and artefacts relating to the commercial butter trade.[5] The Museum's collections include a variety of dairy paraphernalia, including a container of thousand year old medieval bog butter.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cork Butter Museum". Ask About Ireland. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Shandon Craft Centre, Exchange Street, Cork City, Cork City". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "How we built Ireland – exploring our proud engineering heritage". The Engineers Journal. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Cork Butter Museum (Industrial)". Irish Museums Association. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  5. ↑ The Liffey Press (2006). The Museums of Ireland: A Celebration. Dublin: The Liffey Press. pp. 126–127. ISBN 1904148883.
  6. ↑ Corneanu, Miruna. "20 Museums for Food Lovers in Europe". Travel Away. Retrieved 4 June 2015.

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