Food Museums

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.