More and more restaurants and brewpubs appear to sponsor small local museums to
attract customers.  For instance, this past weekend I was in Terre Haute in
Indiana where a former brewery site is now a restaurant with such a museum.
Matthias Mooger founded a brewery in 1848 which laid the foundation for the
Terre Haute Brewery which by 1892 was the seventh largest brewery in the USA.
During the canal era beer was temporarily stored in at least five underground
coolers along the docks of the Wabash & Erie Canal.  Recently a leather pouch
containing a worker's weekly pay was found hidden in the wall of a cooler, the
newest coin dating from the 1860s.