Tea museum

This is the country’s first ever tea museum; located at KDHP’s Nullatanni estate in Munnar. The thousands of tourists who visit Munnar for sight seeing can carry home impressions of the distant past of this tea planting district in Idukki’s high ranges. The aim of the tea museum, is to depict the growth of this more-than-a-century-old tea plantations, from the rudimentary tea roller to the present fully automated tea factory of Madupatty. It also gives first hand knowledge to tourists about tea processing and the operations that go into the making of black tea. A granite sundial, made in 1913 by the Art Industrial School at Nazareth in Tamil Nadu, greets visitors at the entrance of the museum. The memorabilia preserved inside include the original tea roller of 1905, the rotorvane (the old-time CTC type tea processing machine), the Pelton wheel used in the power generation plant that existed in Kanniamally Estate in the 1920s, a rail engine wheel of the Kundale Valley Light Railway that transported men and material between Munnar and Top Station during the early part of the last

The museum also houses an iron-age burial urn from the 2nd century BC that was exhumed near Periakanal Estate in the 1970s. One of the museum's rooms features the old-time bungalow furniture, cash safe, magneto phone, wooden bathtub, iron oven that used firewood, etc., while another houses antique office equipment such as typewriters and EPABS of the 1909 telephone system that was in use in the high ranges. There is also a tea tasting demonstration room with a variety of teas on display. The museum also has a mini-CTC and orthodox tea manufacturing unit to educate the tourists of the different aspects of tea processing. This is a must visit site when holidaying in Munnar. Tickets can be purchased at the Museum. The Museum is closed on all Mondays.

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