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{{Short description|Museums that highlight food as a main topic}}

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[[File:Taiwan Sugar Museum D9450.jpg|thumb|[[Taiwan Sugar Museum (Kaohsiung)|Taiwan Sugar Museum]] in [[Kaohsiung]], [[Taiwan]].]]

A '''food museum''' tells the story of what sustains humankind. Such [[museum]]s may be specifically focused on one [[plant]], as is the [[Saffron]] Museum in [[Boynes]], [[France]]. They may explore a food made from a plant, for example, The [[Bread]] Museum in [[Ulm]], [[Germany]]; a product such as the [[National Mustard Museum]] in [[Wisconsin]]; the art of food displayed at [[California]]'s [[Copia (museum)|Copia]]; or historic farms, for example, [[Iowa]]'s [[Living History Farms]].

In some cases, food museums focus on how and what the world eats. [[Agropolis]] in [[Montpellier]], [[France]] does this, as does [[Nestle]] Foundation's [[Alimentarium]], in [[Vevey]], [[Switzerland]]. [[Japan]]'s [[Ramen Museum]] is a food museum in the form of a [[shopping arcade]] featuring different [[noodle]] restaurants and displays on [[ramen]] history.

==See also==

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* [[List of food and beverage museums]]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150825050835/http://www.foodhistorynews.com/directory.html Directory of Food and Beverage Museums and Collections]

*[http://www.nyfoodmuseum.org/ NY Food Museum], New York, USA

*[http://www.southernfood.org/ Southern Food & Beverage Museum], New Orleans, USA

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061017035537/http://www.foodmuseum.com/exfm2.html Museums about Food & Eating]

*[http://www.muzeumgastronomie.cz/ All about history of cooking and food preparation, Prague, Czech Republic]

[[Category:Types of museums]]

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