Wisconsin’s most unusual museums

Put that one around the cool finish from the museum spectrum. Middleton&rsquos acclaimed Mustard Museum features an accumulation of greater than 4,300 jars, bottles and tubes of prepared mustard collected all 50 states and most 60 countries. Historic mustard containers (some a hundred years old), vintage mustard advertisements and a variety of unique, unusual and inventive gift packages are available here, including their amusing “Poupon U” souvenir line. Highlights include their latest mustard flavor, aptly named "Hit-and-run,Inch an excruciatingly hot, tongue-searing horseradish mustard.

A Brief History Museum in the Castle
Appleton

Typically the most popular exhibit in the Castle (an old Masonic Temple having a very martial look) may be the A.K.A. Houdini section. Getting resided there growing up, Harry Houdini claimed Appleton as his hometown. The Castle has collected and interprets a comprehensive assortment of Houdini memorabilia: personal papers, posters, photos, even a few of the magician&rsquos paraphernalia. The Houdini exhibit enables you to experience a number of Houdini&rsquos methods and escapes through hands-on activities. It&rsquos very exciting for the entire family.

National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
Hayward

The highlight of the museum complex is its landmark "Big Musky" – a structure one-half city block lengthy and 4 and something-half tales tall, built of concrete, steel and fiberglass, hands-sculpted in to the likeness of the bouncing muskellunge. Its innards really are a museum and it is gaping open jaw is definitely an observation platform for around twenty persons high over the museum grounds. The adjacent four-building museum complex displays fishing artifacts, housing a listing in excess of 50,000 vintage and historic lures, rods, reels and angling accessories. Furthermore there are approximately 300 mounted freshwater fish contributing to 1,000 vintage outboard motors.

Circus World Museum
Baraboo

The Ringling Bros. Circus began in Baraboo in 1884 by five siblings: Al, Otto, Charles, John and Alf T. Ringling. For 34 years the circus wintered within structures across the north bank from the Baraboo River. The structures date from 1897 to 1918. Today, Circus World Museum covers 64 acres with 30 permanent structures, including eight from the original winter quarter&rsquos structures. The museum’s assortment of circus artifacts ephemera, photos is possibly the biggest on the planet. It offers greater than 210 original wagons and vehicles once utilized by American, British and Irish circuses. Open year-round, the museum presents classic American one-ring circus performances daily through the summer time featuring aerialists, acrobats, animal functions, jugglers, and clowns.

Realm of Accordions Museum
Superior

Housed inside a former church in downtown Superior are 1,700 accordions, 1,000 which are displayed in floor-to-ceiling racks of museum order: chronology, country-of-origin, type, brand-name. The museum is easily the most complete on the planet, housing instruments from the free-reed family using their earliest patents (1830s) to the current. Exhibits show the instrument&rsquos contributions to America&rsquos “melting-pot” musical culture. So, if names like Whoopee John Wilfahrt, Myron Floren, Frankie Yankovic, Florian Chmielewski – as well as John Lennon – get the ft to tapping, this little jewel-of-a-museum will certainly delight you.

Eco-friendly Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Eco-friendly Bay

Incorporated within the $295 million renovation of Lambeau Field in 2003, the HOF is an opportunity to relive probably the most exciting moments in Packers&rsquo history inside a condition-of-the skill sports museum. Pure Packers adrenaline fills the 25,000-square-feet HOF where one can see, touch and feel greater than 80 many years of riveting National football league football history. You will find nearly 80 exhibits including three Super Bowl trophies along with a re-development of Vince Lombardi’s office. Extensive videos – most of them recently updated – permit the Packers&rsquo legendary recollections to become resided again and again. Visit a display of National football league championship rings, uncover the foundation from the “Lambeau leap,” attempt to kick a fantastic field goal or throw a touchdown.

Potosi Brewery & National Brewery Museum
Potosi

Founded in 1852, the Potosi Brewery survived the Civil War, the truly amazing Depression and Prohibition, but was a victim of national competition in 1972. When the fifth largest brewery in Wisconsin, a significant fire burnt the majority of it down in 1995. Today, carrying out a $4.5 million restoration, the Potosi Brewing Clients are again the linchpin of the village downtown. The brewery complex has become the house of the nation’s Brewery Museum, showcasing an outstanding assortment of beer bottles and cans, glasses, trays, coasters, advertising materials along with other brewing artifacts. Additionally, it houses the organization&rsquos own transportation museum, in addition to a Great River Road Interpretive Center, along with a wonderful restaurant that serves an excellent choice of in your area made beers. It&rsquos an incredible success story that introduced the beer to Potosi.

Ten Chimneys
Genesee Depot

Nestled within the moving Kettle Moraine of southeast Wisconsin, Ten Chimneys may be the idyllic summer time retreat lovingly produced by Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The 60-acre estate is really a world-class house museum along with a National Historic Landmark. Ten Chimneys is really a rarity – many of the estate&rsquos collections are original, intact, and unchanged because the Lunts first put together them within the 1930s and &rsquo40s. Visitors enjoy probably the most inspirational historic house tours in the united states because they walk-in the actions of Noël Coward, Laurence Olivier, Helen Hayes and Katharine Hepburn – all frequent visitors here.

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