USA - Minnesota - SPAM™ Town USA

Austin, Minnesota, also known as  SPAM™ USA, is the home of Hormel Foods Corporation, manufacturer of world-faous SPAM® products. In SPAM™ Town USA, you can visit the world's only SPAM® Museum; see the stately home of George A. Hormel; walk the picturesque 278-acre Hormel Nature Center or purchase unique SPAM® product merchandise at the SPAM® MUSEUM Gift Shop or online at SPAM.com.

Sent by Sharon from Montana, USA.

The Spam Museum is an admission-free museum in Austin, Minnesota, dedicated to Spam, a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its place in world culture.

The Spam Museum originated in January 1991 as the Hormel Foods First Century Museum, when Hormel opened a small storefront company museum in celebration of the company's 100 year anniversary. Originally located in Austin's Oak Park Mall, Hormel later re-branded it as the Spam Museum.

A much-larger Spam-focused museum opened in September 2001. The 16,500-square foot space included a theater, historical displays, family activities and games, and a gift shop. The lobby of the museum featured a wall of Spam with more than 3,300 Spam cans and, for many years, the theatre showed a short film entitled "SPAM: A Love Story." The Spam Museum temporarily closed in September 2014 to move to a new, more accessible downtown location (read more).