If you love salt and pepper or just the shakers they come in, boy is this the place for you. It's really no surprise that the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs has designated this gallery an "Iowa Great Place." The Museum displays the largest collection of salt and pepper shakers in the United States west of the Mississippi River and the second largest in the world!
The gallery features the amazing collection of Traer resident, Ruth Rasmussen. Begun in 1946, the collection contains examples of types of shaker that you never even knew was a category: nodders, huggers, kissers, go-withs, hangers, minis, nesters, longboys, tallboys, condiment sets and many other types of shakers in porcelain, glass, ceramic, metal, plastic and wood. The Rasmussen collection has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, USA Today, the National Enquirer, and on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, in addition to many other publications. The gallery also houses thousands of sets of shakers generously donated by other people and is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated in the State of Iowa.
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