The Kerrygold wrapper from years past, as seen in the collection on the Museum gallery floor.

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

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 😊

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

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

A final (snow) flurry of visually stunning butter wrappers this morning: Baileboro, Carrigeen, North Clare, Millvale 🧈😊 BM

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.

Following on from the other day, another four beautifully original butter wrappers: Freshford, Outrath, Greybridge and Golden Vein. Enjoy! 😊 BM

Thank god the Butter Museum is over here. I'd hate to leave the vintage wrappers behind at that other place.

@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.

Some highlights from my weekend in Cork City. (1/2) #Im @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social

More Cork City highlights. (2/2) @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social #Im

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!!

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.

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...

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

Butter wrappers: Lee Valley

Some happy scenes from Culture Night last Friday ☺️ BM

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 #CultureNight @corkcityarts

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” ❤️

Butter wrappers: Lombardstown

Butter wrappers: Blackabbey Co-Op, Co. Limerick

Butter wrappers: Silver Churn

Butter wrappers: West Clare, Kilrush

Butter wrappers: Southern Pastures, Dublin

Butter wrappers: Crème Maid, Dublin

@thebuttermuseum.bsky.social Butter wrapped: Piltown, Co.Kilkenny

Butter wrappers: Piltown, Co.Kilkenny

If you don't know The Butter Museum, well, now you do.

Butter wrappers: Golden Vein, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick

Butter wrappers: Carrigeen, Co. Waterford

Butter wrappers: “Golden Valley” from Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary

Our first post on Bluesky 😊We have a lovely collection of butter wrappers in the Museum here in Shandon. We regularly post scans of them online and people seem to like them. This is one of our favourites: Freshford, Co. Kilkenny