Mount Horeb Mustard Museum

Mount Horeb Mustard Museum

The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum is a museum in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, featuring the world's largest display of prepared mustards. It is often featured in lists of unusual museums in the United States.

The museum was conceived and founded by Barry Levenson, former Assistant Attorney General for the state of Wisconsin. It centers on a mustard collection he began in 1986 while despondent over the failure of favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, to win the 1986 World Series. The initial dozen jars have grown to a collection of more than 4,800 different mustards from 60 different countries, along with items of mustard memorabilia and exhibits depicting the use of mustard through history.

Among the diplays are sweet hot mustards, fruit mustards, hot pepper mustards, horseradish mustards, and even spirit mustards. The collection includes a large variety of French and English mixes, but many other countries are also represented. [ [http://www.googobits.com/articles/2019-wisconsins-mustard-museum.html Googobits Article] ]

The museum opened its doors on April 6, 1992, and moved across the street to its present location in October 2000. Admission is free of charge, and the museum is open between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., though it is closed on Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

On the first Saturday in August, the museum sponsors an annual celebration of National Mustard Day.

The museum's gift shop occupies about half of its floor space and offers free tasting of mustard samples from a refrigerated case containing scores of varieties; the museum also operates a mail-order mustard business.

Levenson was on the game show To Tell the Truth.Fact|date=January 2008

References

* [http://www.mustardweb.com/ Mount Horeb Mustard Museum website]

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVdWdbgIak Mustard Museum Documentary (YouTube)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiBwqwwGVws "Mustard Museum Song" performance at National Mustard Day at the Mustard Museum (YouTube)]


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