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February 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Kerrygold wrapper from years past, as seen in the collection on the Museum gallery floor.
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Happy New Year with the Castlelyons (Co. Cork) wrapper. A red and blue on white paper, utilising the scroll effect as seen on many other designs. A lovely symbol on the lower right hand side. The L(?).A.W.S. (printers?) are a new one for us. Any info gratefully received 😊 BM
January 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Cratchits’ Christmas dinner in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, as illustrated by E. A. Abbey (1876). It’s one of the few images to show the Cratchits’ Christmas goose.
Merry Christmas everyone from the Butter Museum 😊
December 25, 2024 at 10:41 AM
The humble butter box. Made of Swedish pine, and came in flat packs to be assembled onsite: the original Ikea. This particular example is creamery registration number 113: Coachford, Co. Cork
December 22, 2024 at 11:01 AM
The Millvale creamery butter wrapper. It never ceases to delight how the designers managed to incorporate such deeply symbolic iconography into such a small space (a piece of square parchment paper, the size of which encloses a pound of butter), and with such grace. BM
December 13, 2024 at 11:51 AM
A final (snow) flurry of visually stunning butter wrappers this morning: Baileboro, Carrigeen, North Clare, Millvale 🧈😊 BM
December 7, 2024 at 7:33 AM
An example of two butter prints (or stamps) from the Museum’s collection. They were used to impress a unique design on the butter and were found especially useful by members of the community who were illiterate, but able to recognise the particular brand from the design.
December 6, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Following on from the other day, another four beautifully original butter wrappers: Freshford, Outrath, Greybridge and Golden Vein. Enjoy! 😊 BM
December 4, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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Thank god the Butter Museum is over here. I'd hate to leave the vintage wrappers behind at that other place.
Butter wrappers: Lee Valley
October 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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@thebuttermuseum.bsky.social they're not active, but I have a vague hope that one day they may start reposting their butter wrappers of Ireland. Anyway, it's butter. And a museum. And those two things are a great combination.
November 3, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Some highlights from my weekend in Cork City. (1/2) #Im @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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More Cork City highlights. (2/2) @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social #Im
November 11, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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I do feel truly fortunate. Especially having had the opportunity to spend some time with a keg of bog butter!! Also. @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social has a station where you can use a rubber stamp and ink pad to stamp your own butter wrappers!!
November 11, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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If you have any power with the @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social prostrate yourself before them after showing them this and beg them to return here.

Then Bluesky will be truly complete.
November 15, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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And it's not just butter. Butter means cows and cows mean fungible (e.g. stealable) property . So that means kewl stuff like pirates and cowboys...
Hello Bluesky! We joined here a while ago and we will now regale you lovely people with butter wrappers, artefacts and all things butter and Cork. Here, enjoy a selection of our more ‘original’ - in a visual design sense - butter wrappers 😊🧈: Blackabbey, Caherciveen, West Clare, and Kildimo. BM
November 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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For the best buttery content, @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social 🥰
Hello Bluesky! We joined here a while ago and we will now regale you lovely people with butter wrappers, artefacts and all things butter and Cork. Here, enjoy a selection of our more ‘original’ - in a visual design sense - butter wrappers 😊🧈: Blackabbey, Caherciveen, West Clare, and Kildimo. BM
November 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Hello Bluesky! We joined here a while ago and we will now regale you lovely people with butter wrappers, artefacts and all things butter and Cork. Here, enjoy a selection of our more ‘original’ - in a visual design sense - butter wrappers 😊🧈: Blackabbey, Caherciveen, West Clare, and Kildimo. BM
November 30, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Butter wrappers: Lee Valley
October 16, 2023 at 7:02 AM
Some happy scenes from Culture Night last Friday ☺️ BM
September 26, 2023 at 8:02 AM
Our doors are open to visitors, free admission, this evening until 8pm 😊. We would be delighted to see you on this Culture Night. Enjoy 😊 BM

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September 22, 2023 at 7:47 AM
This week, leading up to Culture Night on Friday, we are honouring the memory of a colleague, Don Humphreys. Don loved Culture Night; interacting with visitors, regaling them with folk and fairy stories galore and reminding them that “every single day you learn something new” ❤️
September 21, 2023 at 7:47 AM
Butter wrappers: Lombardstown
September 17, 2023 at 10:32 AM
Butter wrappers: Blackabbey Co-Op, Co. Limerick
September 12, 2023 at 7:28 AM
Butter wrappers: Silver Churn
September 9, 2023 at 10:29 AM