clabber girl museum

Small, but interesting. There's a little food place adjacent to the museum which offers some great sandwiches, etc. Nice for a stop-by if you're not in a hurry.

The sandwich shop was wonderful. What a treat after walking through the museum. The gift shop has a lot of nice and interesting baking items.

Been driving by for a few years and finally stopped on a Saturday. Great old time vibe and interesting historical Info on a familiar brand. We will be back for a week day tour of this working plant!

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Clabber Girl is a combination restaurant/shop/museum...depending on where you are.Breakfast and lunch is available and the famous REX coffee is served. Rex coffee as well as Clabber Girl baking powder is available for purchase as well. The museum has areas to bring back memories of the way things used to be...old time stores, coffee roasters and grinders, and an old Indy car which had been driven by Eddie Sacks. Eddie Sacks (along with another driver) was later killed in a horrific crash on the second lap of the 1964 Indy 500.Tony Hulman and Hulman and Company are names synonymous with Terre Haute and Clabber Girl and these are well represented at the museum. It is a pleasant way to spend an hour or two.

Excellent museum, well worth taking time to visit. Beautifully restored ornate woodwork, cobblestones, period furniture and tools. If you love to bake, you should really visit. You will be glad you did.

We tried to do only local things this trip to Terre Haute and went to the Museum. We first went to the Cafe and had breakfast and then toured the museum. It was free and very nice. Highly recommended.

This is a small but free museum. I have gone several times and find it interesting every time. They have expanded it over the years that I have been going. They have a lunch diner that looks good but I haven't been able to go.

Met former co-workers here for a long lunch. We ordered at the counter and waited to carry our food to a table in a corner where we had more privacy to talk, laugh, and stay for awhile. The food was priced right, fresh, and fast. We also enjoyed looking around the museum and learning about the Clabber Girl history. We all purchased desserts to go as well as some of the Clabber Girl products for sale. Definitely worth a try when you want to get away from the chain restaurants and have a bowl of soup, a salad, and or a sandwich.

What a well put together history of Clabber Girl. It reminded me of an old town feel, while walking on a brick road, and checking out the history of it all. Stop by for a delicious meal in their Clabber Girl Café. The museum is free and well worth a look through

Terre Haute, Indiana, USA - In this midwestern town, on the border with Illinois, is one of America's little-known local history museums, celebrating a succesful family business.You may not know the name of the business - Hulman & Co.But you may recognize the product - Clabber Girl Baking Powder.It is found in home kitchens as well as commercial food service establishments.Without it, cooks, chefs, bakers, and homemakers would be "clabbering" unpastuerized milk, that is, letting it sour, making it an ingredient in baking that causes biscuits, for example, to rise without the use of yeast.Instead, this powdery substance, a mixture of corn starch, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum sulfate, and monocalcium phosphate. When used in biscuit dough, as an example, it works by creating gas bubbles that expand to raise the dough.Hulman & Co. began distributing grocery products in 1848. The company started making dry baking powder in the late 1800s and in 1923 settled on the brand name Clabber Girl.In 1892 the company built its headquarters in downtown Terre Haute, a six-story building that still is in use. In fact, the museum occupies much of the street level, sharing space with the Clabber Girl Bake Shop and the retail shop.The museum is self-guided. The story it tells starts in the 1800s when Hulman & Co. was founded and extends into the 20th Century, touching on World War II, the horse and buggy era before the automobile, and early 20th Century life in America.There is a period bank, parlor room, butcher shop, general store, business office, saloon, plus displays of historic objects, newspapers and other printed documents.See an old Singer sewing machine, a 1912 Burroughs manual adding machine, a 1905 horse-drawn delivery wagon, a stove-top waffle iron, a wooden floor sweeper, an antique telephone switchboard, crank-handle telephones, a 1945 wall calendar, a "noiseless" typewriter, and a cookbook titled "Grandma's Wartime Kitchen".There is a big poster that urges World War II home cooks to: "Save Waste Fats for Explosives - Take Them to Your Meat Dealer".Then there is a vintage Indy 500 race car.What is an Indy race car doing in a museum devoted to Clabber Girl Baking Powder?Grandson and then company president Tony Hulman Jr. had the opportunity to buy the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the end of World War II from Eddie Rickenbacker. More importantly, the track had fallen into disrepair during the war and was slated as a site for a housing development before Mr. Hulman was approached to buy it. He immediately set about to restore the track and the famous race. And...Hulman & Co. still owns and operates the race track that gives the world the Indy 500 every Spring.It is a great American success story, and the Clabber Girl Museum does an excellent job of telling it.More information is available on the websites of the museum, the company, and wikipedia.

At the beginning of our road trip, we spent the night in Terre Haute. My husband looked up thigs to see and found this little museum. We love food and food related things so this was very interesting for us. The displays were authentic, a 30-45 minute self guided tour. We say them roasting and grinding the Rex coffee beans and of course had to give it a try!

We had our wedding rehearsal dinner here. Everything was wonderful and professional. We were able to use the eating space past the bake shop for the dinner and the museum for a cocktail hour after. The in-house kitchen is the only catering option. The food was excellent and the staff were very good. Meeting and organization with the management was a pleasure. They were really so nice and we had no trouble.They had a good space to handle dinners of 20-80 people. We had about 40 and it was prefect for the Rex room. After dinner, it was amazing to have a cocktail hour in the museum. Being a Friday night, it was closed to the public, but we had access to the entire museum while we had drinks and desert. They set up a bar in the vintage saloon display. The displays and atmosphere are so good, that it was more than just a space to mingle. A lot of our guests went around checking out all the exhibits. They even rearranged some of the space for us, setting up tables for people to place their drinks or mingle around. It really felt incredibly professional and smooth.If you have an event, this will be much more interesting than any restaurant or meeting room. And if you are just interested in seeing the museum, there is a great variety of exhibits about Terre Haute, the Hulman family, and the history of the area. It's not just about Clabber Girl baking powder, but its really worth the visit.

Very clean, wonderful, but small exhibits related to the baking/coffee industry and Hulman family.. Like a walk back in time. They have a café, but we did not make a purchase. Definitely worth a quick stop. The company spent a lot of money on this beautiful museum. Honestly, the nicest thing I saw in Terre Haute.

The museum was within easy walking distance of our hotel downtown. The displays were informative and interesting. The whole thing takes about a half hour to go through if you read all the signs. At a cost of FREE, it was a great value.

It's free to the public. The museum is at the first floor of the building. It's fun to walk thru the museum. Take about twenty minutes