The Soda Museum

02/13/2026

Launching Dirty Soda on Valentine’s Day and we’ve got a special offer for you ❤️🥤

This Saturday, February 14th, we’re officially launching the Soda Museum’s NEW Non-Alcoholic Dirty Soda line — just in time to celebrate Valentine’s Day with something sweet, fun, and different ✨

Special Valentine’s Day Offer:
Mention this post on Saturday, February 14th and receive **ONE FREE Dirty Soda with admission** 🎉

Bring a date 💕 Bring a friend 👯 Or just treat yourself 😎

Happy Valentine’s Day from your friends at the Soda Museum and Main Street Arcade ❤️

01/22/2026

01/14/2026

We get questions all the time asking if we are pet friendly - and YES, you can bring your well behaved pet to The Soda Museum and Main Street Arcade in St Charles. Today we even hosted a party for . We can host your parties too. Visit www.MainStreetArcade.com to book today!

12/09/2025

🎄From all of us here at The Soda Museum, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎅✨

This season reminds us why we collect what we collect...stories, memories, and the joy of sharing something nostalgic. Whether it’s vintage Coca-Cola art, decades-old soda treasures, or those holiday displays you remember from childhood, it all brings people together.

Thank you for visiting, supporting, and keeping history alive.

11/29/2025

🍺✨ Butter Beer is here!
$6 – weekends only at The Soda Museum.
Come try this frothy, creamy throwback drink!

10/22/2025

🥤✨ Coca-Cola Porcelain Syrup Urn, c.1896 ✨🥤

Step back to the very beginnings of Coca-Cola at the soda fountain!

Starting in 1896, The Coca-Cola Company offered these elaborately detailed porcelain syrup urns to soda fountain operators. At first, only shops selling 100 gallons or more of Coca-Cola syrup per year could qualify to receive one. By 1899, the requirement was lowered to 35 gallons — making them more widely seen across America.

Although the urns were technically “on loan” from the company, history tells a different story: most soda fountains kept them or gave them away once they were no longer in use. That’s why only a handful survive today, making them a prized piece for collectors and museums alike.

🌟 On display now at The Soda Museum — a true relic of Coca-Cola’s earliest days in American soda fountains.

📍 Visit us in St. Charles and see this rare urn up close!

10/15/2025

🚬✨ Coca-Cola Gum Vending Machine, c.1903–1905 ✨🚬

On display at The Soda Museum is one of the rarest early Coca-Cola vending pieces ever made — the cigar-style gum machine.

🔴 Shaped like a cigar, the cylindrical gum was sold for 5 cents. This machine once dispensed Coca-Cola gum in soda fountains and shops over 120 years ago. Customers would drop in a nickel and receive a cylinder of chewing gum — while the Coca-Cola brand stayed front and center in daily life.

🌟 Why it matters:

Not many were made, and those that were, were discarded after only a couple years in service, making survivors like this nearly impossible to find today.

Considered one of the “holy grails” in the Coca-Cola collecting world.

This rare piece shows how Coca-Cola built its name not just through the drink, but through early brand marketing and everyday novelties.

👉 Come see this museum-level treasure and other Coca-Cola Chewing Gum items on display — right here in St. Charles!

10/14/2025

Come see the Notre Dame Glee Club at St. Charles Borromeo Church. Oct 21st. No Admission to Enter. Starts at 7PM.

10/04/2025

Come see the Notre Dame Glee Club at St. Charles Borromeo Church. Oct 21st. No Admission to Enter. Starts at 7PM. For more information or to help sponsor, contact Tom Smith at
The Soda Museum and Main Street Arcade.

Sponsored by Tony’s on Main and The Soda Museum.

10/01/2025

✨ Rare Find at The Soda Museum ✨

On display is a Coca-Cola “The Ideal Brain Tonic" "Specific for Headache" brass plate dating back to c.1896 — made only 10 years after Coca-Cola was invented.

This embossed brass plate actually pre-dates the famous tin litho serving trays used by the company in the early 1900s. Its exact use is a mystery, but Allan Petretti, the Godfather of Coca-Cola collecting, believed it may have been used as a service plate or backbar piece, and his dating of the piece comes from the slogans used.

The debossed Coca-Cola logo in the center was originally filled with bright red enamel. Though over a century has passed, remnants of that red enamel can still be seen across the lettering today.

👉 A very rare piece of Coca-Cola history, right here in St. Charles!

📍 Visit us at The Soda Museum to see it in person.