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Former Lawyer Takes His Mustard Museum to New Town
A former lawyer who has been collecting mustard since 1986 has made his hobby into a profession.
Barry Levenson owns the Mustard Museum, home to a display of 5,000 mustards and 1,500 antique mustard pots, USA Today reported in a story published last week. The museum had been located in Mount Horeb, Wis., but it is expanding and moving 18 miles away to the town of Middleton.
The museum website says Levenson began to collect mustard when he was an assistant attorney general for the state of Wisconsin. He left the job in 1991 and opened the museum in 1992. Middleton is giving Levenson up to $50,000 for relocation costs and $1.4 million in aid to the owner of the building that will host the museum, the story says.