Post #395338 by ikitnrev on Sun, Jul 20, 2008 7:51 PM

The American cocktail museum is back once again in New Orleans, at a new location - and with tiki cups! The following are excerpts from an article on the re-opening.

*The Museum of the American Cocktail officially reopens Monday at 10:30 a.m. in a clubby gallery inside the new Southern Food and Beverage Museum at Riverwalk Marketplace, just inside the Julia Street entrance.

"We really are excited, and I think it's a very rich, deep exhibit," said SoFAB president Liz Williams. "People will very much enjoy it."

The Museum of the American Cocktail opened originally on the second floor of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum in 2005, nine months before Hurricane Katrina. Board members removed the exhibit after the storm, and Ti Martin invited the museum to open at the Commander's Palace Las Vegas in the Aladdin Resort & Casino. There it was on display for nine months, until the hotel was sold.

SoFAB opened in Riverwalk Marketplace last month, at the end of the food court. Now, the nonprofit cocktail museum is back to stay. For the past couple of months, the curator, drinks historian Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh, has been installing alcoholic beverage history in a timeline, with artifacts such as a 3,000-year-old Chinese wine cup; a tantalus, a decorative locking cage that held decanters and tantalized servants in the George Washington era; a collection of tiki cups; menus, cocktail-related music; first editions of the very first drinks book; artifacts from Prohibition, and much, much more.*

Full article is here

http://blog.nola.com/judywalker/2008/07/museum_of_the_american_cocktai.html