Museums/Collections: Equipment, Table Service, Containers/Equipment—Equipment, Corkscrews

Collection de Tire-Bouchons
Chateau Haut-Sarpe
Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes 33330
FRANCE

Tel/Fax: 0557247098/514186

Museums of Food Containers, Utensils, Appliances, and Dishes—Equipment, Corkscrews

Corkscrew Collection
Culinary Institute of America Greystone
2555 Main Street
St. Helena CA 94574

Mission: When the CIA bought Greystone,the former Christian Brothers Winery, it also acquired the collection of the legendary Brother Timothy, who started the collection in 1949, a year before the Christian Brothers bought Greystone. By 1955 the collection contained about 200 pieces and is now displayed in cases and cabinets for visitors.

Admission Info: For tour reservations: 707-967-2328

Museums/Collections: Equipment, Table Service, Containers/Equipment—Equipment, Cutlery

Cutlery Museum
1 Burgmauer 68
Koln
Nordrhein-Westfalen 5000
GERMANY

Mission: World-wide collection of eating implements.

Museums of Food Containers, Utensils, Appliances, and Dishes—Nutcrackers

Ersten Nussknackermuseum Europas
09544 Neuhausen (Erzgebirge region of South Saxony)
GERMANY

Website: www.nussknackermuseum-neuhausen.de

Mission: Based on a private collection of Uwe and Jurgen Loschner, the collection of more than 4300 nutcrackers from 28 countries was started in 1966. It is devoted to the lathe-created wooden nutcrackers, often in the form of figures such as kings, first made in the 1870s.

Museums/Collections: Equipment, Table Service, Containers/Equipment—Equipment, Corkscrews

Erstes Korkenziehermuseum der Welt
Zentrum fur Aussergewohnliche Museen
Tegernseerstr. 32
Kreuth 83708
GERMANY

Tel/Fax: (08022) 95300

Mission: Collection of corkscrews from the past 300 years. Items from all over the world, including some rare pieces and some excellent German patented items.

Museums/Collections: Equipment, Table Service, Containers/Equipment—Equipment, Utensils

Michigan State University
East Lansing MI

Mission: Rich, extensive collection of cooking equipment and utensils.

Museums of Food Containers, Utensils, Appliances, and Dishes—Equipment, Cutlery

Musee de la Coutellerie
58 Rue de la Coutellerie
Thiers 63300
FRANCE

Tel/Fax: 04-73-80-58-86
Website: www.musee-coutellerie-thiers.com
Email: musee-de-la-coutellerie.thiers@wanadoo.fr

Mission: Tells the history of more than five centuries of cutlery history in Thiers through collections of knives and other eating utensils from the Renaissance to today. A living history museum showing how the early knife grinders worked on numerous small mills called "rouets" refining and sharpening knife blades on huge grindstones. A still functioning grindstone is on display. The museum's main themes are early knife-making methods, knife -making materials, the diversity of cutting instruments, the history of recycling, water conservation, and the stories of native knife makers.

Admission Info: Open daily July and August, 10 am - 6:30 pm; February - June and September - December, daily except Monday, 10 am - 12 and 2 - 6 pm. Admission fee.

Museums/Collections: Equipment, Table Service, Containers/Equipment—Equipment, Corkscrews

Musee du Tire-Bouchons
Domaine de la Citadelle
Menerbes 84560
FRANCE

Curator: Located within the Domaine de la Citadel winery in the south of France
Tel/Fax: 011-33-04-90-72-41-58

Mission: Over 1500 corkscrews in the collection which was reorganized in 1998 and contains several uniqie 17th-century items.

Admission Info: Open daily April - September, 10 am - 4 pm; October - March, open Monday - Friday, 10 am - 4 pm.

Other Info: Has shop selling wine and wine-related objects.

Museums/Collections: Equipment, Table Service, Containers/Equipment—Equipment, Nutcrackers

Nutcracker Museum
PO Box 129
735 Front St.
Leavenworth WA 98826

Curator: Founded in 1955 by Arlene and George Wagner.
Tel/Fax: 509-548-4573, 800-892-3989
Website: www.nutcrackermuseum.com

Mission: More than 4,000 nutcrackers from the 15th century to date. Large number of German wooden figural objects from the 16th century onward, including standing wooden ones in the form of soldiers and kings from the 18th century; Victorian period silver or porcelain nutcrackers; others from all over Europe of brass, French boxwood, castiron; walking sticks topped by wooden nutcrackers. Also betel cutters from India. Video introduction.

Admission Info: Open daily: May - October; weekends only, November - April, or by appointment. Admission fee.

Other Info: Shop and sales.

Museums of Food Containers, Utensils, Appliances, and Dishes—Equipment, Utensils

Reitz Collection of Food Technology
Department of Anthropology/Calif. Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street (between 4th and 5th Streets)
San Francisco CA 94103-3009

Tel/Fax: 415-321-8000
Website: www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/rietzcoll/

Mission: The Rietz Collection of Food Technology is one of the few cross-cultural collections of culinary objects assembled to document historic technologies of cooking and eating. Collected by industrialist Carl Austin Rietz during the mid-20th century, and acquired by the Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences in the 1970s, the collection documents the cultural development of technologies associated with preparing and eating food among numerous cultures and time periods.


The almost 14,000 objects in the Collection derive from the first millennium BCE to the early 20th century, originating in ancient Palestine, Cyprus and Greece, Medieval Persia, Renaissance and Modern Europe, Colonial North America, 19th-century Japan and China, and early 20th-century Africa and Oceania. They illustrate common practices such as use of fire, cutting, fermenting, and brewing, as well as storing, preparing, cooking, serving, and eating of food.

Admission Info: Open daily, 10 am – 5 pm (3rd Thursday, 10 am – 9 pm). Admission fee but free on 1st Wednesday.

Other Info: At Golden Gate Park CLOSED WHILE REBUILDING