Kimberly Floyd is the co-founder, Executive Director, and brains behind the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum. Established by community members in 2017, the North Carolina Beverage Museum is dedicated to preserving and interpreting North Carolina’s craft beverage story and celebrating its role in building and defining the community. She graduated with a degree in History from Meredith College and received her Master’s in Public History and Museum Studies from North Carolina State University.

Kimberly joins me today to share updates on the museum’s permanent and traveling exhibits. She describes the museum’s Pour Me Another traveling exhibit and how it tells the story of North Carolina through the beverage. She discusses the museum’s three permanent exhibits in Asheville and its partnership with the Asheville Free Walking Tour. Kimberly also explains how the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum is actively involved in research and artifact collection and shares her vision for the museum for the year ahead.

This week on Consuming the Craft:

●     The Pour Me Another traveling exhibit

●     Launching the museum’s first three permanent exhibits in Asheville

●     The museum’s walking tour in partnership with Asheville Free Walking Tour

●     Booze Clues: New Belgium’s citrusy mimosa

●     Pepsi’s T-Swiftie drink and what “retronasal” means

●     How the museum is researching and actively collecting artifacts

●     Kimberly’s preparatory work on next year’s traveling exhibit on temperance and prohibition

●     How prohibition is still impacting us today

●     The museum’s hub-and-spoke model and the need to increase outreach and sponsors

Connect with Kimberly Floyd:

●     North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum

●     North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum on Instagram

●     North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum on Facebook

●     North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum on Twitter

●     Kimberly Floyd on LinkedIn

●     Email: info@ncbevmuseum

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