301707 Wed Mar 15 12:53:37 -0800 2006 26 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1683857 I am looking to compile a list of food museums and food related collections at universities and the like. Any suggestions would be appreciated, as long as they have real-world permanent collections that one could actually go visit. So far,besides the usual suspects like company museums such as the Coke Museum or Hormel's SPAM museum, I've run across: COPIA in Napa Valley the Alimentarium Food Museum in Switzerland the Imhoff-Stollwerck Museum (aka Schokoladenmuseum or the Chocolate museum)in Koln, Germany Thanks! Wed Mar 15 12:53:37 -0800 2006 0 Cassie 1 1683860 The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. A real treat! They have films you can watch, a bunch of mustards from around the world both to admire and to sample/buy. These people are serious about their mustard! It's also got some tongue-in-cheek to it as well. Exhibit A: Their entire line of Poupon U merchandise. Link: http://www.mustardmuseum.com/ Wed Mar 15 13:12:01 -0800 2006 1683857 0 mailsf 1 1683862 DEAN & DELUCA in NYC? My friend always called it the Food Museum because their prices seemed more akin to what museums paid for their collections. Wed Mar 15 13:22:18 -0800 2006 1683857 0 BluPlateSpec 1 1683863 There is a tamale museum in San Juan Capistrano, Ca Link: http://www.thetamalemuseum.com/ Wed Mar 15 13:25:06 -0800 2006 1683857 0 rworange 1 1683866 The Salt Museum in Syracuse, NY - we went on a visit with the in-laws last summer. All our relatives said "Why would you want to go there?" They were pretty much right... but we learned a lot about salt.... http://onondagacountyparks.com/parks/salt_museum/ Bale Grist Mill in St. Helena, CA - an old stone mill, part of a state park - can watch the mill in use and buy flour, polenta, etc. Link: http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=482 Wed Mar 15 13:40:51 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Junie D 1 1683868 I haven't been there, but there's a peanut museum in Virginia. See the link below. Link: http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=15111&CharID=22425 Wed Mar 15 13:47:22 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Deenso 1 1683871 There's the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas. Scott Link: http://www.drpeppermuseum.com/ Wed Mar 15 14:13:32 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Scott 1 1683873 The Buttolph Menu Collection at the New York Public Library is fascinating- it features thousands of menus from as early as 1851 or so. They had a public exhibition in 2002. Select menus from the collection can be viewed by the public, but they have a number of restrictions. That info, the history of the collection itself, as well as a dozen samples from the collection (many from the 19th century)can be viewed here: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/menus/ Link: http://www.editorandpunisher.com Wed Mar 15 14:29:32 -0800 2006 1683857 0 AC 1 1683875 Information on the Yokohama Ramen Museum: http://www.bento.com/phgal3. Info on more Japanese Food Museums: http://www.kikkoman.com/forum/sj007.html Info on Jacqueline Newman's Chinese Cookbook Collection: http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/artman/publish/article_984.shtml No permanent home yet, but Harley Spiller has a collection of more than 10,000 Chinese Restaurant Menus(Google on "Inspector Collector"). Link: http://www.spectrumnet.com/pez/ Wed Mar 15 14:43:12 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Gary Soup 1 1683881 Not to mention this one, courtesy of jazz harp virtuoso Deborah Henson-Conant. Link: http://www.burntfoodmuseum.com/ Wed Mar 15 15:31:07 -0800 2006 1683857 0 BobB 2 1683899 Her "'Round the Corner" album is amazing. Now everytime I hear it, I'll picture those burnt "soy pups." [shudder] Scott Wed Mar 15 18:11:29 -0800 2006 1683881 0 Scott 1 1683884 The Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales in Providence, RI is a very nice collection. Link: http://www.culinary.org/ Wed Mar 15 15:47:12 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Chowpatty 2 1683903 Wow, you all are great! Thanks so much for all the leads--you've made this intern's life a lot easier. Once I get the list together, I'll be sure to repost it here. Wed Mar 15 18:50:06 -0800 2006 1683884 0 Cassie 3 1684122 Expect to spend 2-3 hours at the Johnston and Wales in Providence, RI. The collection is THAT extensive. Also, The Sauer-Beckmann Farmstead at the LBJ Ranch in Johnson City, TX has a farming exhibit and docents that produce various cheeses from raw milk. Sun Mar 19 22:11:33 -0800 2006 1683903 0 jlawrence01 1 1683885 Everything you ever wanted to know about Kimchi Link: http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/seoul/315 Wed Mar 15 15:47:30 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Larry 1 1683888 I think that you'll find this link helpful. Enjoy!! Link: http://www.foodmuseum.com/ Wed Mar 15 16:00:54 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Nancy Berry 2 1683891 Here are a number of links to food museums or to lists of food museums: http://foodhistorynews.com/directory.html http://www.worldculinaryinstitute.com/museum/museum1.html http://museum.agropolis.fr/english/index.html http://www.hersheymuseum.org/ http://www.nutrition.nestle.com/content.asp?THE_ID=122 http://www.bento.com/phgal3.html http://www.southernfood.org/ http://www.jellomuseum.com/ http://www.vinegarman.com/Museum1.shtml http://www.burgerweb.com/museum.htm http://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/en/cworld http://americanhistory.si.edu/juliachild/ http://www.discovercranberries.com/ http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/baseball/hotdogs/ http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/ediblemonument/index2.html http://www.kikkoman.com/forum/sj007.html Wed Mar 15 16:19:41 -0800 2006 1683888 0 Nancy Berry 3 1683893 Showoff! ;-) Nancy, I keep wondering when you are going to peddle your link lists. Wed Mar 15 16:34:40 -0800 2006 1683891 0 Gary Soup 4 1683898 My husband says to tell you that you are very smart! :-) He's been after me to at leawst write some articles for pay. Seriously, though, that question tapped two of my passions, museums and food. I've got even more links in my favorites. Wed Mar 15 17:58:51 -0800 2006 1683893 0 Nancy Berry 1 1683894 I loved the Oceanspray Cranberry museum in Plymouth, MA and kick myself for not stopping at the chocolate museum in Hershey, PA. What was I thinking? Wed Mar 15 17:16:07 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Rosie Posie 1 1683921 There are chocolate museums in Koln, Biarritz, Vienna, and Brussels. The first two have pretty impressive collections. Wed Mar 15 23:47:48 -0800 2006 1683857 0 BabyLitigator 1 1683939 The Bramah Museum of Tea and Coffee in London. Link: http://www.bramahmuseum.co.uk/ Thu Mar 16 11:13:21 -0800 2006 1683857 0 Chorus Girl 1 1684061 Here are a few more for your list, from two of my wackier travel books, "Europe Off the Wall" by Rufus & Lawson, and "Little Museums: Small (and Not-So-Small) American Showplaces" by Arany & Hobson. Both are used books, so the info might be out of date. I'd love to see the full list when it's done! - Anne ----- Alexander and Baldwin Sugar Museum - Puunene, Maui, Hawaii Colman's Mustard Museum - Norwich, England Culinary Arts Museum, Auguste Escoffier Foundation - Villeneuve-Loubet, France Deutsches Brotmuseum (bread) - Ulm, Germany Ecomusee de la Truffe (truffles) - Sorges, France The First Peanut Museum in U.S.A. - Waverly, Virginia Food Museum (Alimentarium) - Vevey, Switzerland Furford Cranberry Museum - Grayland, Washington Jacob Suchard Museum of the Cultural History of Coffee - Zurich, Switzerland Musee du Pain (bread) - Paris, France Musee du Champignon (mushrooms) - Saumur, France Musee de l'Olivier (olives) - Nyons, France Musee de la Truffe et Tricastin (truffles & wine) - St-Paul-Troix-Chateaux, France Museo Storico degli Spaghetti - Pontedassio, Italy Museum of Gastronomy - Thoiry, France Mushroom Museum at Phillips Place - Kennett Square, Pennsylvania National Apple Museum - Biglerville, Pennsylvania National Dairy Museum - Kiesen, Switzerland New England Maple Museum - Pittsford, Vermont Rice Museum - Georgetown, South Carolina Salt Museum - Northwich, England Honey/Beekeeping Museums: - Beekeeping Museum - Kalmthout, Belgium - International Apimondia Beekeeping Museum - Mechelen, Belgium - Bee Museum - Tilff, Belgium - Quince Honey Farm - South Molton, Devon, England - Honey of a Museum - Ashippun, Wisconsin Sat Mar 18 19:22:13 -0800 2006 1683857 0 AnneInMpls 1 2831695 did anyone mention these? Prince Edward Island Potato Museum, O'Leary, Prince Edward Island New England Maple Museum, Pittsford, Vermont Thu Aug 09 22:32:28 -0700 2007 1683857 10677 hhc 2 2832488 We went to the Sushi Museum in Shimizu, right before taking the ferry to Izu. That region (Shizuoka) is famous for its hot springs, unagi, green tea, wasabi, and pink tiny shrimp (sakura ebi), the latter which we had as tempura a few times. Yokohama has museums of ramen & curry, would love to check them out next time. Also the Museum of Tobacco & Salt (?). Fri Aug 10 08:20:57 -0700 2007 2831695 13853 Leonardo 3 2832947 Does anyone know if there is a canning / thermal processing museum? Fri Aug 10 09:55:42 -0700 2007 2832488 19117 Pollo 2 2833135 I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but there is a Jamon museum in Madrid - actually a couple of them. Fri Aug 10 10:32:45 -0700 2007 2831695 65564 bivalvelovr