Website www.corkbutter.museum Phone +353 21 430 0600 | Curator Peter Foynes Established 1985 | |
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Cork butter museum
The Cork Butter Museum is a museum that documents the history of butter production and sale in County Cork, and is housed in the former Cork Butter Market.
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History
The Cork Butter Market building is situated in the Shandon area of the city, with the building dating from 1849. Shandon was the largest Shambles (open-air butcheries) in Ireland, and the Exchange was located within this commercial area. During the Exchange's peak in the 19th-century, Cork was the largest exporter of butter in the world, with butter exported as far as Australia and India.
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The museum documents the role of the butter trade to Ireland over the course of history. In particular, the museum has displays covering the international Butter Exchange in the 19th-century, the domestic production of butter, and the success of Kerrygold in more recent times. The displays document elements of Irish commercial, social and domestic history. The exhibitions bring the visitor through various elements of butter production, from dairy cattle farming, to the documents and artifacts relating to the commercial butter trade. The Museum's collections include a variety of dairy paraphernalia, including a container of thousand year old medieval bog butter.