Cork museum appeals to public to help expand its spread of parchment butter wrappers

Cork Butter Museum has been collecting the parchment wrappers in recent years, and is using its social media channels to appeal to people to donate wrappers to the museum to help preserve the history of the Irish butter industry

The Cork Butter Museum currently has more than 70 wrappers which covered pounds of butter produced in Ireland’s network of creameries in the middle of the last century.

The hunt is on for relics of Ireland’s butter trade — the humble butter wrapper.

The Cork Butter Museum currently has more than 70 wrappers which covered pounds of butter produced in Ireland’s network of creameries in the middle of the last century. Such wrappers are no longer a common sight for consumers, following the amalgamation of the dozens of small operators in the butter industry.