Traveling to Cologne, Germany (Germany: Köln / English: Cologne), the Imhoff Chocolate Museum (Germany: Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum) has about 2,000 exhibits and processes, showing us the origin of chocolate, how it is made, and various types Packaging and awards are appreciated in the museum through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
Transportation: How to get to the Cologne Chocolate Museum (Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum)?
The museum is located in the southeast of Cologne’s Old Town, about 1.8 kilometers away from the Cologne Church (Germany: Kölner Dom / English: The Cathedral of Cologne) within a 20-minute walk; or take the subway U3, 4, 17 to Severinstraße stop. It takes 800-8 minutes to walk to the museum about 10 meters.
List of ticket prices and opening hours of the Cologne Chocolate Museum (Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum).
Through exhibition tickets, chocolate sales, restaurants, etc., this museum has become a museum that can be independently maintained without government subsidies. Although the day of the visit is Sunday, many tourists come here to visit the museum, even buying tickets. The big queue, it's quite worthwhile to understand how they did it?In addition, the fare information is organized as follows for everyone.
‧ Adults: 9 Euros
‧ Children, students, and senior citizens over 65 years old: 6.5 Euros (students and senior citizens need to show their ID)
‧ Family ticket: 25 Euros (two adults and children over 16 years old)
‧ Group ticket for 15 people (inclusive): 8.5 Euros per person
‧ If it is the birthday star who comes to visit the museum on the same day, it is free. (The official website reads: If it's your birthday on the day of the visit at the Chocolate Museum, then we will invite you for free on your special day!)
You also need to pay attention to the opening hours. Monday is a fixed public holiday, and there will be special visits in December 2016.12 (personally guess it is Christmas, and the Chocolate Museum has other festivals)
‧Tuesday to Friday: 10:00～18:00
‧Sat/Sun/Festivals: 11:00～19:00
‧ Monday: Closed
‧ 2016.12 Special opening hours
– 12/26：11:00～19:00
– 12/31：11:00～17:00
– 2017/1/1：11:00～19:00
– 2017/1/2：10:00～18:00
‧ 2016.12.24～25: Closed
▲ Buy a ticket and get a museum homemade chocolate.
▲ If you want to buy souvenirs, you can catch them all in one go next to the ticket office.
A brief introduction and highlights of the Cologne Chocolate Museum (Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum).
The museum has a total of 3 floors. The exhibits on the first floor are mainly about the origin and development of chocolate, which are presented through diagrams, text or video. The museum maintains many early chocolate-making related equipment, documents, etc., and they are in German and English. Let the visitors understand the information. If you bring children, it is recommended that adults should assist in the explanation. They will understand the information of the exhibits better.We also visited the glass greenhouse where cocoa was grown. It was quite interesting to see that the special plant characteristics of the cocoa tree are that the flowers and fruits are all on the trunk.
If you walk down to the end on the first floor, there will be a chocolate fountain about 3 meters high. The warm chocolate emits a sweet smell. The service staff will take the waffles dipped in chocolate sauce and send them to everyone. While eating, you can admire the Rhine in front of you. River bank.
▲ All kinds of chocolate packaging outer boxes.
▲ Smell it and guess what spice is in this jar?
▲ Delicious chocolate~.
The second floor is for visitors to come to the modern world. How mechanized equipment produces delicious chocolate. There is a small processing factory inside. This is the first time we have seen a chocolate production line. It becomes a solid, and then it is gradually divided and packaged through the machine and sent to the final box.And I think that the official website information should be similar to the course of a Japanese workshop, so that ordinary people can also experience the making of chocolate confectionery, and those who are interested may wish to check the information on the official website.
The other area and the third floor are art and early shop display spaces. When chocolate is popular, it mainly comes from the leisure time of the nobles. How to taste chocolate and match it with exclusive utensils, including finely crafted wooden spoons and ornately decorated. Silver cups, this series of collections are displayed one by one, and the German city of Meissen (Meißen), which is famous for its porcelain manufacturing, continues to produce high-end tableware for hot chocolate drinks.Another category of chocolate is "medicine." The manufacturer believes that chocolate is not as simple as a dessert, and that it still has medicinal value (this is quite a lot of medical information, so I won't go into details). There are relevant documents on site to help explain.
▲ See the familiar figure of the exterior box.
▲ The interactive game requires a group of 5/6 people, and one command will work together to assemble the body within a limited time. (They play so seriously)
▲ Some netizens shared that the desserts in the restaurant on the first floor are delicious. Readers who love desserts should not miss it.
Conclusion
The Cologne Chocolate Museum has high information content. There is no Chinese audio guide for tourists like other automobile museums and castles. It takes more time and effort to digest and understand. The museum uses various charts and images to simplify the statement. Maybe You can also learn more.Compared with the Shiroi Koibito Factory in Sapporo, Hokkaido, the Japanese private collections are equally rich, but they are relatively more interesting. I think this is because the museum has a different position on itself. It is more suitable for adults to bring children from high school or above to visit and train foreign languages. Listening and reading ability.If you are bringing children, it would be better to go here:
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◎ Chocolate Museum (Germany: Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum)
– Address: Schokoladenmusem Köln 50678 Köln Germany
– Phone: +49.221.931888-0
-Ticket prices and opening hours: in this article
– Official website: http://www.chocolatemuseum-cologne.com/
