Welcome Home...THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY

The National Knife Museum IS Moving...

The Officers, Directors, Staff, and Members of the NKCA, sincerely thank Smoky Mountain Knife Works / Kevin Pipes for giving our collection of cutlery a home these past seven years. As most of you know, we moved our oriignal Museum (built in 1981) from Chattanooga to Sevierville, TN, in November 2007 and it is now time to relocate to a different facility.
 
The Board of Directors may have found us an exciting new home, but we will not know all the details until a little later. Once permament arrangements have been made, the new location and the "Grand Opening" date will be announced. 
 
Once again, we thank SMKW for all they have done to help promote the National Knife Museum and the hobby of knife collecting. 
 
Sincerely,
 

Janice D Carter
NKM Board

Tags: Knife, Museum, National, is, moving

Views: 814

Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

The official announcement has not been made but an unofficial one went out on FB so I thought I would fill in a few blanks.  The offers have been made to three museums, two have accepted the items the board voted for them to receive and one has not responded but in fairness they have not had an opportunity as they have been out of town.  We look to hear from them by end of week.  The two confirmed are looking forward to having the items on display and that was a chief concern of the board.  These knives belong in view for all to see that want to visit!

http://www.bermanmuseum.org/pages/?pageID=27

http://www.janneyfurnace.org/

I will give you the name of the third when they have confirmed

Thank you Jan...I look forward to wherever I can point members to for visits. Also with summer coming up it might be good to know if the exhibits will be ready for vacations or visits.

Thanks for the info and keeping everyone up to date.

We will know the Grand Opening for the donated items at the Janney Museum by months end.  They plan to display as immediately as possible.

The other 2 will take a bit more time as they are building displays to fit the donations and will have to move other items.

Interesting thing about Janney is that they were so excited to have the items for display they had a floor plan drawn up for where they would go before we got there!

Wow cant wait to see the new locations ~!

Just to be upfront the museum is not dissolving.  We will remain a chartered museum with some of our items on loan. The best thing we could do for collectors was put these on display and not back in storage

That was the one word that I found disturbing in Lisa's FB status.


Jan Carter said:

Just to be upfront the museum is not dissolving.  We will remain a chartered museum with some of our items on loan. The best thing we could do for collectors was put these on display and not back in storage

i hate change,but then again im old.

Two additional Museums have been added to the recipient list

Warwarsing Museum Historical Knife Museum 

Cattaraugus Knife Museum at the American Museum of Cutlery, a museum for the Western Hemisphere.

Any idea when the choice will be announced?

I heard that the museum is dissolving (via BLADE eMagazine) and that the collection is being dispersed among three museums. Jan, I believe it's none of the museums in this post.I also heard that certain important collections from the museum will become part of a traveling display at various other museums. Is this info true? 

Could you give us a quick rundown of what happened? I belonged to the museum for years then poof, I stopped receiving renewal notices, the website became a static info page, etc. Was it finances? They paid a dollar a year to SMKW for the mezzanine space. Leadership? Direction - mission statement?

Chuck,

http://www.bermanmuseum.org/pages/?pageID=27

http://www.janneyfurnace.org/

http://www.nramuseum.org/

Two additional Museums have been added to the recipient list

Warwarsing Museum Historical Knife Museum 

Cattaraugus Knife Museum at the American Museum of Cutlery, a museum for the Western Hemisphere.

Reply to Discussion

RSS

White River Knives

Latest Activity

Jan Carter posted a status
"April 23, 2025 United States v Douglas Nelson ! tonights 8PM chat"
Wednesday
Robert Reeves replied to Robert Reeves's discussion Puma 6385 Trapper's Companion knife. Right-handed. Want to sell - UK
Tuesday

KnifeMaker
Andy Larrison commented on Andy Larrison's photo
Tuesday

Featured
dead_left_knife_guy commented on Kevin D's photo
Tuesday

Featured
dead_left_knife_guy commented on Kevin D's photo
Tuesday
Kevin D commented on Andy Larrison's photo
Tuesday
Lars Ray commented on Andy Larrison's photo
Tuesday
Kevin D commented on Andy Larrison's photo
Monday

KnifeMaker
Andy Larrison posted photos
Monday

KnifeMaker
Andy Larrison replied to Craig Henry's discussion Case Slimline 048 Pattern in the group Case Fans
Monday
Kevin D replied to Robert Reeves's discussion Puma 6385 Trapper's Companion knife. Right-handed. Want to sell - UK
Apr 19
Kevin D replied to Robert Reeves's discussion Puma 6385 Trapper's Companion knife. Right-handed. Want to sell - UK
Apr 19
Robert Reeves replied to Robert Reeves's discussion Puma 6385 Trapper's Companion knife. Right-handed. Want to sell - UK
Apr 19
Kevin D posted photos
Apr 19
Kevin D replied to Robert Reeves's discussion Puma 6385 Trapper's Companion knife. Right-handed. Want to sell - UK
Apr 19
Robert Reeves replied to Robert Reeves's discussion Puma 6385 Trapper's Companion knife. Right-handed. Want to sell - UK
Apr 19

© 2025   Created by Jan Carter.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service