Sparta Teapot Museum

The Sparta Teapot Museum is currently being constructed in downtown Sparta, North Carolina, USA and is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2008.

It will contain approximately convert|30000|sqft|m2 devoted to the history of tea and teapots and to the display of teapots from all cultures and all eras.

The museum will draw mainly from the teapot collection of Gloria and Sonny Kamm. The Kamm Collection comprising of more than 6,000 teapots is the largest teapot collection in the USA and arguably the world. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20060620175902/http://www.spartateapotmuseum.org/ProjectPages/ArtoftheTeapot.html Art of the Teapot] , SpartaTeapotMuseum.org (via the Internet Archive)]

The Sparta Teapot Museum received its official 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service in November 2005. This designation makes the Museum a charity organization.

In 2006, Congress controversially gave the Teapot Museum $500,000 in federal funding. [ [http://www.talkingaboutpolitics.com/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ArticleView/mid/364/articleId/173/Teapot-Museum-Gets-500000-More.aspx Teapot Museum Gets $500,000 More] , talkingaboutpolitics.com]

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External links

* [http://www.spartateapotmuseum.org The Sparta Teapot Museum]