Experts' Choice Award The Butter Museum
What the experts agree on
Cork's quirky butter museum chronicles how Ireland's dairy industry transformed a commodity into a global brand, housed in the revitalized Shandon area with charming artifacts and surprising historical depth about the city's imperial-era exports.
“The collection includes medieval-looking churns and old butter-block wrappers with sublime graphics, but the pièce de résistance was an ancient corporate team-building video for the Irish Dairy Board.”
– Travel + Leisure
Frommer's "From 1770 until the 1920s, Cork was the largest exporter of butter in the world, peaking at half a million casks annually by the turn of the 20th century." Full review
Lonely Planet "The Cork Butter Museum has interesting displays showing how the Irish butter industry took a commodity item (butter) and created a brand (Kerry Gold) that has allowed farmers to sell the spreadable stuff at a premium." Full review
Independent "In the revitalised Shandon area, north of the river, the Butter Museum, in O'Connell Square, explores butter's role in the development of Cork, as purveyor of the product throughout the..."
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