Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Soft Drinks, Coca-Cola

Biedenharn Candy Company and Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia
1197 Washington St.
Vicksburg MS 39183

Tel/Fax: 601-638-6514

Mission: Collection contains reproduction bottling works, Coca-Cola memorabilia, 1900 soda fountain, and restored 1890 candy store.

Other Info: Housed in a restored 1890 building where Coke was first bottled.

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Soft Drinks, Coca-Cola

Bottle Cap Museum and Gift Shop
4977 Sparr Rd.
5 mi. E of Gaylord, on Rte. F-44 next to Sparr Mall
Gaylord MI 49735

Tel/Fax: 517-732-1931

Mission: Over 3,000 Coca-Cola-related items including vintage and franchise bottles, caps, trays, signs, posters, clocks; 1930s through 1970s dispensers and coolers; and many other novelties. Also features a Coca-Cola Christmas Room and a Coca-Cola bathroom, both appropriately decorated.

Admission Info: Open Wednesday - Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm. Admission fee for adults includes a free Coke.

Museums/Collections Focused on Specific Beverages—Coffee, Tea

Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee
4 Maguire St OR 40 Southwark Street
London SE1 2NQ OR SE1 1UN
ENGLAND

Curator: Founded by former tea taster and planter Edward Bramah
Tel/Fax: 44-171-378-0222
Website: www.bramahmuseum.co.uk

Mission: Massive collection of coffee and tea equipment and paraphernalia. Tells of the rise in popularity of tea and coffee and the competition between them, the international history of tea drinking and tea ceremonies, and changes in tea production and trade and the evolution of the tea bag. Exhibits of historic prints and ceramic and metal pots, including some 500 teapots and plaques (English, Continental, Chinese and Japanese from the early 1600s) as well as coffee makers through the ages, ranging from boilers to glass vacuum and siphon machines, drip filters and percolators.

Admission Info: Open daily, 10 am - 6 pm. Admission fee.

Other Info: Opened in 1993. Museum has a cafe and gift shop.

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Soft Drinks, Coca-Cola

Butch's Cola Museum
118 Maple St.
Marietta OH 45750

Tel/Fax: 740-376-COKE

Mission: Displays memorabilia produced by the Coca-Cola Company as well as other cola makers, featuring signs, coolers, trays, machines, and paper items.

Admission Info: Open April - December, Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm; January - March, Friday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm.

Other Info: Part of Marietta's historic Hamar Village

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Tea

Chado Research Center Gallery
Horikawa-dori Teranouchi-agaru, Kamigyo-ward
Kyoto-city 602-8688
JAPAN

Tel/Fax: 075-431-6474

Mission: The museum presents how the Japanese tea ceremony is performed.

Admission Info: Open Tuesday - Sunday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Admission fee.

Other Info: Operated by the Urasenke school for the tea ceremony.

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Tea

China Tea Museum
JiLong Road, Xihu
Hangzhou 310013
CHINA

Tel/Fax: (0571) 7964778, 7964551

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Coffee

Collection Historique du Café
Le Perou
Quartier des Tranquises
Le Mages 30960
FRANCE

Tel/Fax: 0466256611

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Tea

Das Ostfreisische Teemuseum und Norden Heimatmuseum
Am Markt 36
Norden 26506
GERMANY

Tel/Fax: (04931) 12100
Website: www.teemuseum.de

Mission: Focus on tea as a plant and a commodity: its origin, sale, and the international tea culture

Museums/Collections: Beverages/Non-alcoholic—Tea

De Theefabriek
Hoofdstr. 15-17
Houwerzijl 9973 PD
NETHERLANDS

Mission: Tea production

Museums/Collections Focused on Specific Beverages—Soft Drinks, Dr. Pepper

Dr Pepper Bottling
221 S. Patrick
Dublin TX 76446

Tel/Fax: 254-445-3466

Mission: This 1891 bottling plant has retained the same Dr. Pepper recipe and bottling equipment, and still bottles on Tuesdays from 9 - 11:30 am and 1 - 3:30 pm. Also on display: much memorabilia dating back to the 19th century

Admission Info: Monday - Friday, 8 am - 12 and 1 - 5 pm; Saturday, 10 am - 12 and 1 - 3 pm. Free.