Sparta Teapot Museum
The Sparta Teapot Museum of Craft and Design was a museum in Sparta, North Carolina, United States. It closed in January 2010.[1]
The museum drew mainly from the teapot collection of Gloria and Sonny Kamm. The Kamm Collection, comprising more than 6,000 teapots, is the largest teapot collection in the USA and arguably the world.[2]
The Sparta Teapot Museum received its official 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service in November 2005. This designation made the Museum a charity organization.
In 2006, Congress controversially appropriated nearly $500,000 in federal funding for construction of a new building for the Teapot Museum, but the project was canceled before any of the money left federal hands.[3]
See also
- American tea culture
- Flagstaff House
- Teapot Dome Service Station, an American building shaped like a teapot, symbolic of the Teapot Dome bribery scandal
References
- ^ Sparta Teapot Museum
- ^ Art of the Teapot, SpartaTeapotMuseum.org (via the Internet Archive)
- ^ Teapot Museum Gets $500,000 More, talkingaboutpolitics.com
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