Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum
Posted by: Jeremy
N 47° 35.690 W 120° 39.741
10T E 675734 N 5273917
Leavenworth is home to the world's largest nutcracker museum. There are over 4,000 pieces on display.
Waymark Code: WM4AX
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 11/29/2005
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Taken from the Nutcracker museum web site:
You will see the Betel cutters from Asia, the beautifully carved wooden figurals from Europe, the precious ivory and porcelains, the silver that matched the Victorian tableware, or the conventional utility type strong enough to conquer the black walnuts. You will find hand-held metal nutcrackers in beautiful designs as well as those more crudely crafted in blacksmith shops. You will see beautifully carved ebony and boxwoodVisitors trying to crack nuts with various nutcrackers! figures, so durable they have withstood hundreds of years. And nutting bowls...artifacts found in the southeastern United States and Europe which date back thousands of years.
There are different ways to crack a nut...direct pressure, indirect pressure, screw, and percussion, and you will find them all in the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum. The creativity of man is vividly portrayed in the many ways he used to crack a nut.