Vegemite creator’s museum driving Beaufort visitation, says operators

After being open for 15 months, the operators of the Cyril Callister Vegemite Museum in Beaufort say it’s driving visitation to the town.

Callister, a chemist and food technologist, invented Australia’s favourite spread over 100 years ago in the small western Victorian town of Chute.

Manager of the museum, Liza Robinson, says MP Joe McCracken was on site last week to open their new lab.

“[Cyril’s lab] is a reproduction of the laboratory where Cyril invented Vegemite, which took him nine months,” she said.

“Student groups [can now] come in and do interactive science experiments in the lab.”

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