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# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/42271/
- Published: 2017-02-24T06:39:49.000Z
- Updated: 2017-02-24T06:39:49.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![Museum of the Amer Cocktail](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Museum-of-the-Amer-Cocktail-300x200.jpeg)

I just learned about this: [The Museum of the American Cocktail](https://natfab.org/cocktail-museum/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I've long wanted to get to New Orleans. This Museum just increased the chances I'll make the trip.

Of course, even something as cool as a museum about drinking can't escape the PC police: "The Museum of the American Cocktail seeks to advance the profession and increase consumer knowledge of mixology while stressing the importance of responsible drinking."

Gosh, make me vomit. I mean, you don't need to promote excess, but such grasps at cheap grace are lame. You've put together a (presumably) cool museum that appeals to adults. Leave it at that: "antique bottles, books, openers and all other aspects of imbibing ephemera to rotating exhibits like the current 'New Orleans Prohibition Raids, 1919”“1933.'" ([Description from Liquor.com](http://www.liquor.com/slideshows/alcohol-museums/?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=2.19:MuseumsforGreatDrinking%5Fab&utm%5Fcontent=Final&utm%5Fterm=Liquor:%20Total%20%28Consumer%29).)

That's great stuff. You don't need to caveat it with a sideways apology ("Sorry for having a museum that celebrates alcohol, but we also promote responsible drinking").

I wouldn't even care if someone started a Museum of American Excess: Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, and the Art of Drunken Writing; the Peculiar Institution and Promotion of Excess; Rock-n-Roll and its *Sine Qua Non*; Reefer Madness; Nevada. It would have a room dedicated to Kerouac, or maybe the Beats in general. It could have an entire wing devoted to New York City: a walk-through replica of NYC's Bowery circa 1965, a Five Points History, High Times at Studio 54 1977-1979, Heroin and Harlem, the Cotton Club. The museum could hire Thaddeus Russell as its curator or special adviser.

Just a thought, but regardless, it would not, under any circumstances, have any lame disclaimers.