The REAL Hop Museum
Posted on September 30, 2008
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Posted by Sierra
Does anyone reading this remember the post I wrote way back at the beginning of the trip entitled, “The Hop Museum”? (If not, you can read it.) I wrote about a museum in Toppenish, Washington, “City of Murals.” This museum called itself a “Hop Museum.” Ha! Compare it to the one in Poperinge, Belgium, and you’ll see that Toppenish should have stuck to murals.
We went to the museum during Hopfeesten, a hop festival where there’s a hop parade and people dress up like hops. We headed to the museum (which, I might add, had a nicely decorated one-day cafe outside), paid, received our audio guides, and climbed to the 3rd floor (4th in the US of A), where we were told the tour began.
What was it like? Awesome. Besides having some information panels, there was commentary on a wide variety of subjects, from how hops are grown to the history of hops to the different uses for hops.
Fact: Saint Arnold is considered a beer saint because he cured the pest disease using beer.
Fact: The building that is now the hop museum used to be the municipal scales.
Fact: A guy used to ride a horse backwards and had a stone attached to the back. The stone weighed 83 kilograms.
On each floor there is a “hop quiz” that I took that tests you on what you learned on each floor. There are two levels- child and adult. I aced both levels on every floor, and on the last floor it said I was now an “Official Hop Inspector.”
All in all, there was stuff to do there that we all liked. Dad liked being able to listen to stuff and take notes, Mom liked learning new things, and I liked the tests. So that’s why I call it “The REAL Hop Museum.” THE END
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