15 Weird and Wonderful Food Museums from Around the World
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The world has some great museums; The Guggenheim, The Louvre, and The British Museum are all world class institutions. Here at Culture Trip, we don’t just love the big and famous, we love the unusual too. Here then, are 15 weirdly wonderful food museums that prove ‘if you collect it, they will come’.
1. The SPAM® Museum, USA
Museum
2. Carpigiani Gelato museum, Italy
Museum
4. Idaho Potato Museum, USA
Museum
5. Frietmuseum, Belgium
Museum
6. Deutsches Currywurst Museum, Germany
Restaurant, German
7. Museum of Brands, UK
Museum
8. Beer Can Museum, USA
Bar, Pub, Pub Grub
9. Amsterdam Cheese Museum, Holland
Museum
10. National Mustard Museum, USA
Museum
11. International Vinegar Museum, USA
Museum
12. Pizza Brain, USA
Restaurant, American
Burnt Food Museum, USA
We’ve all taken our eye off the stove at some time in our lives. The result? Burnt food. When this happened to Deborah Henson-Conant’s apple cider, she decided to start collecting other examples of burnt food, and thus the museum was born. If you’ve ever burnt food to oblivion, you can add a photo to their facebook page, but as for the actual exhibition, it’s only made public on very rare occasions.
Museums of the Olive in the Mediterranean
Not one, not even a few, but 15 museums are part of the this family of institutions scattered across the Mediterranean from Spain in the West to Italy, Greece, Turkey and Israel. The Greek one in Sparta is a modern museum telling the story of olives in the Greek culture.
Big Mac® Museum, USA
‘Two all Beef patty special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun,’ goes the Big Mac’s famous jingle-cum-recipe method. Now over 40 years old, the Big Mac has its own museum; pose next to the world’s largest Big Mac model as well as finding out more about its inventor.
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