World's Largest Salt Shaker

Lyons, Kansas, United States

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A 15-foot-tall salt shaker sculpture of metal and glass in downtown Lyons, Kansas, that arrived in September 2024 and honours the town's salt mining. The city says that, as far as it knows, it is the world's largest; a Kansas Department of Commerce grant of nearly $14,000 helped fund it.

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Approximate location · 38.349° N, 98.203° W

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Lyons, Kansas, sits on a salt bed, and in 2024 it put a 15-foot salt shaker on a downtown corner to say so.

KANSAS! Magazine reports that a developer drilling for oil and natural gas accidentally struck a salt bed in 1887, and that the town has built a legacy around the resource since. It says two salt mines still operate there. The idea of a giant shaker was announced in May 2023, when the city received nearly $14,000 from the Kansas Department of Commerce to build a city attraction. Lyons’ community development coordinator told KWCH that the aim was to give people “a reason to drive into downtown Lyons and see what we have going on down here”. Ad Astra Radio reported that Lyons Salt Company, Compass Minerals and other local donors were also supporting the project.

The Great Bend Post reported on 15 September 2024 that the shaker had arrived earlier that month. It was made by a Sterling company, Morton Made, and stands in front of a mural painted by Brickmob of Wichita. The interim city administrator told the paper: “We haven’t had Guinness: The Book of World Records or anything come out and check, but as far as we know, it is the world’s largest.” He put its scale at 64 times a normal tabletop shaker; KANSAS! Magazine says 64 times an old-fashioned diner shaker, which it was designed to resemble. Glass panels were still to be added in 2024; the December 2025 magazine article describes it as made of metal and glass panels.

KANSAS! Magazine places the shaker and mural in Salt Miners Park, a new park on the courthouse square. The same article describes ten retired salt carts, painted by local artists and placed around the community as part of the Salt and Art Project.

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A metal-and-glass sculpture in front of a mural in Salt Miners Park, a downtown park on the Lyons courthouse square. Retired salt carts painted by local artists stand elsewhere in town as part of the Salt and Art Project; KANSAS! Magazine says the city website maps them.

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At the corner of Commercial and East Avenue in downtown Lyons, Kansas, in Salt Miners Park on the courthouse square, according to the Great Bend Post (2024) and KANSAS! Magazine (December 2025). It is outdoors in a public park.

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