Comments on: 7 Strange Museums Preserving British Heritage

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Never forget the marble museum, a great day out and a great selection of marbles to buy in the shop. Just google House of marbles.

By: Jen - The Alien Spouse

Jen - The Alien Spouse — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:59:00 +0000

Oh no! My poor choice of phrasing has lead to a pun off. I am suitably cowed.

By the way, the highlight of the butter museum was a screening room showing Kerrygold adverts from the 60s and 70s. My favourite showed a mountain of cheddar being matured to the sound of harps played by beautiful Irish girls. One of the musicians then uses her harp to slice a block of cheese.

By: linda

linda — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:23:00 +0000

Dean — nicely done.

By: Dean the KJ

Dean the KJ — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:52:00 +0000

Oh, come on. anyone could rise to that pun. Dairy punning can be milked for hours. my only fear is that this will spread uncontrollably.

By: linda

linda — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:03:00 +0000

Jen– did you mean “udderly fascinating”?

Oh my god, that was the worst pun I’ve ever committed to typing.

By: Jen - The Alien Spouse

Jen - The Alien Spouse — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:11:00 +0000

I’ve been to the Butter Museum in Cork, which was very, um, creamy? It was a weird mix of really dull and utterly fascinating.

I was very disappointed to find they had no gift shop, because I really wanted to send postcards shaped like hot buttered toast.

By: Rick Vosper

Rick Vosper — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Some (and yes, my ancestry is English) would say that any museum preserving British history is, de facto, strange.