Driving near Austin made this museum a must-stop 😊
It first opened as Hormel Foods First Century Museum in January 1991 in Austin's Oak Park Mall. It was later rebranded as the Spam Museum and a larger one opened in September 2001-2014. In April of 2016, the museum opened in its current space in downtown Austin.
It was a blast, especially the spam can train running at the ceiling level throughout the entire place.
The train runs through the gift shop as well.
On the 75th anniversary of the Hormel Company, Dwight Eisenhower wrote a letter to the company with his congratulations and his thanks for all of the spam he and the GIs in World War II ate.
This was 14,000 square feet of fun and we took some souvenirs home for ourselves and our friends.
There's a bronze statue in front of the museum of a farmer with two pigs, reflecting Hormel's history as a pork producer and the originations of SPAM. Cheers to SPAM!
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