{"id":4600,"date":"2010-08-19T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2010-08-19T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:04:52","slug":"a-good-brewery-museum-is-worth-supporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-good-brewery-museum-is-worth-supporting\/","title":{"rendered":"A good brewery museum is worth supporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor&#8217;s feature &#8220;5 famous pork projects: Beer museum and more&#8221; includes, as you might have guessed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2010\/0819\/5-famous-pork-projects-Beer-museum-and-more\/Home-for-a-beer-museum\">funding for the National Brewery Museum<\/a> in Potosi, Wis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2004, The Potosi Brewery Complex restoration project received a $449,574 grant from the Federal Highway Administration&#8217;s National Scenic Byways Program to help renovate the building in order to attract tourism. Straddling the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, the renovated brewery became home to the National Brewery Museum, the Potosi Brewing Company Transportation Museum, a Great River Road Interpretive Center, and a micro brewery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why this is a bad thing. As far as government projects go a half million dollars isn&#8217;t much. Efforts to create a national museum have failed elsewhere. Beyond the fact the museum houses rotating exhibits of items on loan from members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbreweriana.org\/\">American Breweriana Association<\/a> there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanbreweriana.org\/resources\/aba_library.php\">Research Library<\/a>. What could be more important?<\/p>\n<p>A few photos from when we visited a couple of years ago:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20100819-potosi01.jpg\" title=\"National Brewery Museum in Potosi, Wisconsin\" class=\"centered\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20100819-potosi02.jpg\" title=\"National Brewery Museum in Potosi, Wisconsin\" class=\"centered\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20100819-potosi03.jpg\" title=\"National Brewery Museum in Potosi, Wisconsin\" class=\"centered\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor&#8217;s feature &#8220;5 famous pork projects: Beer museum and more&#8221; includes, as you might have guessed, funding for the National Brewery Museum in Potosi, Wis. In 2004, The Potosi Brewery Complex restoration project received a $449,574 grant from the Federal Highway Administration&#8217;s National Scenic Byways Program to help renovate the building in &#8230; <a title=\"A good brewery museum is worth supporting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-good-brewery-museum-is-worth-supporting\/\" aria-label=\"More on A good brewery museum is worth supporting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}