salt palace museum

If you're interested in the history of salt, or just like museums about "how things came to be", this one is worth a stop. There is a 15 minute film about the salt mining industry in Grand Saline, as well as the history of Morton's Salt. Lots of little tidbits to pick up from the museum curator. For instance, did you know that when you eat a pretzel made in the U.S, the salt on it comes from the Grand Saline Salt Mine? Find out the rest for yourself in the museum made of salt; there are coloring pages for the kiddies, too! You can also drive to the salt plant, but there are no tours available.

I enjoyed this small but interesting museum and information learned. Be sure to watch the video. I am glad we stopped by!

A unusual museum built completely of salt. The walls and everything!! This building erodes and has to be rebuilt. Also has interesting info about salt mining.

The Salt Palace is a fun, educational little museum, filled with photographs and displays featuring the Morton Salt Co., the local salt works and mine, and the history of the town of Grand Saline. The 15-minute video is a must see before walking around inside and Kay can answer all your questions. I believe the original 1936 Salt Palace was larger and shaped like the Alamo. I didn't lick the walls, but I did pick up a free piece of the pure rock salt available to visitors. Gift shop offers t-shirts, souvenirs, and interesting handouts. There is also a historical marker and information available about Wiley Post, pioneer aviator and native son. One of the lesser-known but important stops for Texas history buffs.

This is a small museum but interesting place to browse through, and the photo albums they had were really good and, informative notes, some surprising things about people and places.

We are geocachers and often find ourselves stopping at weird roadside attractions. This one sounded interesting, so we headed out to learn more about the Salt Palace. After a stop a mile or so south of town to see the site of the actual mine, we headed into town to visit the Salt Palace. We were not the only visitors, either, despite it being a Wednesday.We did lick the building, which tickled our boys no end. They enjoyed the short video on the history of salt collection/mining in the area. My other half bought shifts, and we started up a conversation with the very friendly docent. She offered to take our picture outside, too, which was nice. What makes this a 5-star review is their handling of a problem of our own making. While our picture was taken, my husband put down the shirts he'd just bought, and then we left without picking them up, which we didn't realize until we got home several hours later.He called up the next day (today), and they had found the shirts and will be mailing them to us. Thanks so much!

Once I heard that you could put your tongue on the outside of this place without fear of germs, I was in. Christmastime gingerbread houses aside, how many buildings are there that are essentially edible? Basically, the Salt Palace is a nutty (in a good way) roadside attraction akin to the ones that used to line Route 66. But there's a big difference between Route 66 and little, out-of-the-way Grand Saline, Texas. While there is some interesting info about the area and the town's massive salt dome, etc. (more interesting if you're a sodium chloride buff), the Salt Palace is essentially a photo-op and, well, lick-op.

How fun it was to visit a building made out of salt! I understand it had to be rebuilt a few times due to the weather wearing away the salt & now it has an roof designed to help prevent future weathering.It was free to visit the Salt Palace but they did have a donation bottle.We found this small museum quite fascinating! They had lots of unique memorabilia from Morton Salt Company (their mine is just down the street), they gave us a free sample of rock salt, and they had a fabulous movie showing.The movie is quite informative and very interesting about the salt mine and workers. I would recommitted you stay an extra 10 minutes to see the movie. The salt mine stopped giving tours in 1963 but we still made sure to drive by the mine & factory on our way out of town.The lady working at the Salt Palace was very friendly, nice, and full of knowledge! It was a pleasure chatting with her.What also made our visit more meaningful is that it's Morton Salt's 100th anniversary! Morton Salt makes the table salt you can buy at the store in the blue canister with the girl & umbrella on the label.While at the Salt Museum, be sure to use the restroom - they have memorabilia on the wall in the restroom as well!When we were leaving, we noticed their sign out front & got a good chuckle out of it! Instead of "Like us on facebook" it said "Lick us on facebook". We thought that was funny since we read about how many tourists actually lick the side of the building to make sure its really made out of salt.As much as we were tempted, we did not lick the side of the building!We found this museum a very fun place to visit & would recommend it to others!!!

This should be a bigger attraction than it is. The Salt Palace shows an insight into the history salt mining in East Texas. Neat to see the huge atrium like shell in the underground mine. Unfortunately they no longer allow tours down into the mine.

If you happen to be driving on Hwy. 80 in East Texas and pass through Grand Saline, the film is worth a stop. However, it is not worth a drive there to see. The museum is mostly advertising memorabilia for Morton's Salt. They have a 10 minute film that tells about salt mining at the Morton facility in Grand Saline that is interesting, and the person in charge was very pleasant.She directed us to a Southbound road where you could see both the salt flats and the mine/facility in the distance.There are no mine tours.