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Are you going to Huntsville? Need a great room at one of the elegant hotels located in Huntsville? www.hotelshuntsville.com  There are plenty of nice places to stay and there are some fun things to do while you are visiting. There are plenty of things to see when it comes to the NASA space program. There is also the interesting North Alabama Railroad Museum and then there are some different kinds of museums. One of the more charming museums is the Clay House Museum.

The Clay House Museum is an old home that was originally built around the 1850s. The museum was started by a lady named Robin Hall Brewer. She fell in love with tea sets and started a collection that lead here to 8,000 pieces over a decade and a half. It all started with the fancy tea service she took part in at a restaurant in San Fransisco. She started to collect the tea cups, saucers and there matching creamer and sugar bowls that were made by Noritake. The museum is like a shrine for Japanese made tea sets. She also wrote a book on the matter becoming quite the master of tea set knowledge.

Brewer did everything she could think of to make the museum a success. She even volunteered at the Huntsville Weeden House Museum to learn how to run a museum. She learned everything she could about the tea sets and she collected as many pieces as she could. She even flew to Japan and visited the factory were her collection was made. Sadly the 57 year old, Robin Brewer died from cancer in 2008. The old home and museum is now an art gallery for local artists as well. It is located in the Madison area of the city on Eastview Drive. It is a great thing to see what dreams can be created with passion.