Chocolate Museum

The Chocolate Museum is located on the Reinauhafen Peninsula. The building of the museum resembles a ship in shape, the total area of which is more than 2000 square meters. Unlike other chocolate museums, the Cologne Museum is not located in a confectionery factory, it only collects and stores chocolate exhibits, which can trace the history of chocolate from the time of the Aztecs and Maya to the most modern technologies.

Despite the fact that the museum is not in the factory, it is equipped with a small chocolate factory, so visitors can look at the modern technology of chocolate production. Now all the processes are fully automated, and only two people work at the computers, who monitor the production and package the finished products. Not like before! The history of chocolate dates back more than thirty centuries. The main part of the museum collection consists of hundreds of types of chocolate. A significant part of the exhibition is devoted to the culture of the indigenous tribes of Latin America, because the Aztecs were the first to process cocoa beans.

You can get acquainted with the most ancient recipes for the production of chocolate, as well as with the tools necessary for its manufacture. Among the latter: special knives for cutting cocoa beans, baskets for their transportation, as well as the first mechanisms used previously for processing fruits. At the stands of the museum there are extensive and very interesting photographic materials. One of the most impressive exhibits of the museum is a huge chocolate fountain 3 meters high. It circulates about 200 kg of liquid chocolate.