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In the town named after the President of the United States
The US Presidential Culinary Museum®
Ever moving forward as the goliath, we have had 30 million+ visitors to the center, website, museum, theater, and been featured on CNN International, ABC, CBS, NBC, Spectrum, Vitaya, BrusselsTV, NHK Tokyo, PBS, and FOX to almost three billion viewers. Guests staying at The Inn of the Patriots enjoy a private tour. We've been featured in 160+ newspapers and magazines on earth, in just 12 years. As seen in the Official Museum Directory in partnership with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), as a Blue Star Museum with the National Endowment for the Arts, a licensed partner with Google Cultural Institute (enter for digital collections), and officially listed with the North Carolina Museum Council (NCMC) we are featuring each of the Presidents.
Additionally, artifacts, antiques, and individual items have been sent from the United States National Archives, The Bush Foundations, President Carter, President Reagan, President Ford, President Obama, President Trump, President Eisenhower, and The Clinton Foundation. The Presidential Culinary Museum® is a small portion of the United States Food History Museum™ (USFHM) & World Food History Museum™ (WFHM) heralding Presidential Food Service, the slow food movement, major food manufacturers and their brands as well as the famous icons developed in America sold worldwide like the Baby Ruth candy bar, Heinz catsup, Coca-Cola, Reeses and so many more.
See our Press Office for a complete list of the past 30 Media Advisories, News Releases, and Press Releases over the years. There is high resolution, 300-DPI photographs. Catch us in a new, four-part mini-series with CBS Television (click here) showcasing the Trump, museum, Clinton, and Lincoln episodes!
The museum is utilizing our current success of Inside the Presidents' Cabinet shows. As a private, for-profit museum, we excel. We have also been bringing our museum on the road to your group, your community hall, your church, or your country club for presentations and dinners as many as 500 dining.
- Licensed historians curate our collections and are expanding our web offerings.
- Guests staying at The Inn of the Patriots enjoy a private tour of the food museum.
- Defeat our Pokemon GYM leader! (The museum was listed worldwide by Pokemon GO Game as a gymnasium). Play Harry Potter from your car also.
- The museum building talks out loud on 540 AM radio. Try it in your car!
- See our exhibits online of Clinton and Cleveland: "Democrats with good taste..."
- Enjoy the Bush Foundation items sent from the National Archives and President Bush's planes on display.
- See the new Trump exhibit with items sent by the Trump's and the Obama Chi-Dog with Obama items, and more.
- Over 20+ first ladies exclusive china designs with colors.
- It is not run by the White House nor any government institution - a private museum controlled by a private board of trustees and many former White House servants, writers, and protection units of the CIA, FBI, NID, and USSS.
These are the private and public collections curated by Chef Martin CJ Mongiello - a former Executive Chef to the President of the United States of America, including exhibit items and artifacts sent by the National Archives and several Presidential Foundations. We are located in what is known as The White House, in the town named after the President, Grover, NC. Other collections from private foundations include the Miller, Griffith, Mancuso, Bush, Trump, Carter, Reagan, Clinton families, and libraries. Additionally, we showcase the US Navy, our own Presidential Food Service, and why the White House has two restaurants inside of it, staffed by Navy chefs, and how Captain Patrick J. Casey, USN, Ret. Commanding Officer of the USS Asheville and Vice Admiral Albert Konetzni, Jr., USN, Ret. sent chef Marti (our CEO) away to the White House Military Office (WHMO). Casey is featured in the Main Case of Glass #7 and Mirror, on floor one, since 2008 and listed in the Official Museum Directory in partnership with the American Association of Museums. The tour traverses two levels of the historic mansion. On some events, it may also include the grounds tour outside. Click here to sign up for our once a month newsletter.
See the world awarded exhibits & recipes for the launch of the movie, Jackie, & us on FOX.
Enjoy our online and in-person museum collections
See the Jefferson china & exhibit with off pieces bought in Paris
See the Jefferson china & exhibit with off pieces bought in Paris
See the Jefferson china & exhibit with off pieces bought in Paris
7.30.1787: “The dry rice of Cochinchina has the reputation of being whitest to the eye, best flavored to the taste, and most productive. It seems then to unite the good qualities of both the others [white S. Carolina rice & brown Piedmont/Lombardy rice] known to us. Could it supplant them, it would be a great happiness, as it would enabl
7.30.1787: “The dry rice of Cochinchina has the reputation of being whitest to the eye, best flavored to the taste, and most productive. It seems then to unite the good qualities of both the others [white S. Carolina rice & brown Piedmont/Lombardy rice] known to us. Could it supplant them, it would be a great happiness, as it would enable us to get rid of those ponds of stagnant water so fatal to human health and life.” —to William Drayton
From Thomas Jefferson
Examine the new Truman seal & see THE BUCK STOPS HERE!
See the Jefferson china & exhibit with off pieces bought in Paris
See the Jefferson china & exhibit with off pieces bought in Paris
"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
Bess Truman
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Bess Truman
"The White House is the finest prison in the world."
Harry S Truman
Washington's china with a snake biting its tail on display
See the Jefferson china & exhibit with off pieces bought in Paris
Washington's china with a snake biting its tail on display
7.31.1797: "Unless someone pops in, unexpectedly, Mrs. Washington and myself will do what I believe has not been [done] within the last twenty years by us, that is to set down to dinner by ourselves."--to Tobias Lear
From George Washington
