Kumaar Holidays
No. 42, Chowdary Nagar Main Road,
Valasaravakkam, Chennai-87
Cell: 78109 86933 / 78108 96933 / 93810 61000
E-mail: kumaarholidays1@gmail.com
Website: www.kumaarholidays.com
Kannan Devan Hills Plantations Tea Museum:
This is the
country’s first ever tea museum; located at KDHP’s Nullatanni estate in
Munnar. The thousands of tourists who visit Munnar for sight seeing can
carry home impressions of the distant past of this tea planting district
in Idukki’s high ranges. The aim of the tea museum, is to depict the
growth of this more-than-a-century-old tea plantations, from the
rudimentary tea roller to the present fully automated tea factory of
Madupatty. It also gives first hand knowledge to tourists about tea
processing and the operations that go into the making of black tea.
A granite sundial,
made in 1913 by the Art Industrial School at Nazareth in Tamil Nadu,
greets visitors at the entrance of the museum.
The memorabilia
preserved inside include the original tea roller of 1905, the rotorvane
(the old-time CTC type tea processing machine), the Pelton wheel used in
the power generation plant that existed in Kanniamally Estate in the
1920s, a rail engine wheel of the Kundale Valley Light Railway that
transported men and material between Munnar and Top Station during the
early part of the last century.
The
museum also houses an iron-age burial urn from the 2nd century BC that was
exhumed near Periakanal Estate in the 1970s.
One
of the museum's rooms features the old-time bungalow furniture, cash safe, magneto
phone, wooden bathtub, iron oven that used firewood, etc., while another houses
antique office equipment such as typewriters and EPABS of the 1909 telephone
system that was in use in the high ranges.
This
is a must visit site when holidaying in Munnar. Tickets can be purchased at the
Museum. The Museum is closed on all Mondays.
There
is also a tea tasting demonstration room with a variety of teas on display. The
museum also has a mini-CTC and orthodox tea manufacturing unit to educate the
tourists of the different aspects of tea processing.
Each Cup of Tea Represents
Imaginary Voyage
Kumaar Holidays
No. 42, Chowdary Nagar Main Road,
Valasaravakkam, Chennai-87
Cell: 78109 86933 / 78108 96933 / 93810 61000
E-mail: kumaarholidays1@gmail.com
Website: www.kumaarholidays.com
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