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Museum Tour
Enter through the door, and you are amazed at the vast
 amount of nutcrackers being shown! Every where you look you
will see NUTCRACKERS...different styles of wooden toy
soldier nutcrackers, the name used for the colorful German
figures of Steinbach, Ulbricht, and the Erzgebirge makers.
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 boxwood 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.
A lift has been added for the handicapped, and the
museum has been expanded to approximately 3,000 square feet
to show all of the 5,000 nutcrackers in the collection.
You will be amazed at the many different ways that a nut
can be cracked!
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 The Nutcracker Museum is
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