Here are some open salts found in museums worldwide that are online. Probably the most famous saltcellar is that of Benvenuto Cellini made about 1540.

It was stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in Austria. On May 11, 2003. Valued at 55 million dollars, it was recovered unharmed on January 21, 2006 when the suspected thief led the Austrian police to its hiding place. Click the picture to read the article on the theft and HERE to read of the recovery. Below are some links that will take you directly to individual item pages of various museums worldwide. Numbers after a museum name are all separate pages. In some cases, you may click on the salt images for a larger image. Since these are links to outside websites, you will need to use your own browser's "back" button to return to this page.

British Museum    Brooklyn Museum 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17    Corning Museum of Glass    The Frick Collection 1  2  3  4  5  6  7    Harvard University    Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 1  2   Metropolitan Museum of Art 1  2  3  4  5    Pilgrim Hall Museum    The State Hermitage    Ure Museum

Museums may change their websites at any time and these links may become obsolete. If you find any, please let me know so they can be deleted. Likewise, if you know of any museum links with open salts not shown here, please email Debi Raitz to add them.

Museum Photographs

Photographs of open salts taken at museums, and the photographer.

Tiffin Museum September 2007 Don Rabourn Fostoria OH Museum September 2007 Debi Raitz Toledo Glass Pavillion June 2007 Debi Raitz Sandwich Glass Museum June 2005 Linda Drew Bennington Museum November 2004 Debi Raitz Corning Museum of Glass October 2002 Debi Raitz

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