Museum of Bread

The Museum of Bread, in the city of Ulm, reveals the importance of the role of grain in the life of mankind and is dedicated to the history of growing and processing grain, the importance of the work of farmers, millers and bakers, the glorification of bread as a symbol of prosperity and prosperity.

The first exhibition of this extraordinary museum was first presented in 1955, when one of the barns of the Willy Eislen factory was opened to visitors. Since that time, the collection of the museum has been constantly expanding and expanding, and today it has about 18,000 exhibits.

The two-storey building of the Bread Museum features two permanent exhibitions. The collection of exhibits housed in the first hall provides an opportunity to trace the history of the transformation of grain into bread and covers the time period from the Stone Age to the present day. Within the pavilion “From grain to bread” you will see the first tools of agriculture, models of mills, illustrations of the bakery process, forms for baking muffins. The exhibition “Man and Bread”, which can be seen in the second hall, shows the importance of grain for civilization as a whole. Here are exhibits that help to understand the depth of human suffering during periods of famine.

The Bread Museum is also equipped with a specialized library, in the halls of which about 4,000 books in different languages are collected. All the literature of the library is devoted to one theme – the special role of bread in our lives.