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Food Museums

Painstaking, life-size recreation of a 1958 ramen boom town.

12 Restaurants Hidden in Museums Around the Globe

Come for the exhibitions, stay for the excellent food and drink.

Diana Hubbell April 19, 2022

Homemade gata, a traditional Armenian pastry.

Armenia's Culinary History Hides in a Museum's Manuscripts

Using rare documents and notebooks, Sonia Tashjian is piecing together the nation's food story.

Rafael Tonon April 15, 2022

Garum Biblioteca e Museo Della Cucina

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

Pages with etchings from 16th-century cookery books.

The Roman Museum With a Taste for Historical Cookbooks

A former pâtissier's culinary collection is now available to the public.

Eric Millman March 9, 2022

The front of LA Plaza Cocina.

Inside LA's First Mexican Food Museum

Or how to channel 5,000 years of history into one exhibit.

Diana Hubbell March 8, 2022

Taiping, Malaysia

Antong Coffee Mill

Malaysia's oldest coffee roaster is also a historical landmark.

Podcast: Gold Medal Flour

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team December 27, 2021

Museo del Alfeñique

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.

Podcast: Disgusting Food Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team October 13, 2021

Bog Butter, Ancient Beef, and Other Remarkably Old Foods on Display in Museums

Some of these foods are centuries past their expiration dates.

Sam O'Brien July 26, 2021

Every tour begins in the basement, featuring a bar decorated in Russian vodka labels.

Staten Island, New York

Booze History Museum

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A display of milkfish suspended above the ceiling.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Saba Milkfish Museum

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

Podcast: Disgusting Food Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team May 17, 2021

Podcast: Gold Medal Flour

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team March 31, 2021

The "Bakauke Inari" shrine.

The Ultimate Guide to the World's Food Museums

From pizza to potatoes, these 81 museums pay homage to food history.

Sam O'Brien March 11, 2021

The "Bakauke Inari" shrine.

Niigata Rice Cracker Museum & Bakauke Inari

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

Tiny radish people dancing

10 Stunning Feats of Edible Art

These museums and festivals feature food-based masterpieces.

Sam O'Brien January 25, 2021

The first Pizza Hut is really more of a house.

Wichita, Kansas

Original Pizza Hut

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.