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Chocolate pod

Love chocolate? Love to know more about chocolate, its history, how it grows, it’s processed and what all kinds of different companies do with it? Check out the list below or go directly to the chocolate museum list @ www.curious-food-lover.com. Here you will find the most extensive overview of the chocolate museums of the world, offering many opportunities to add the taste of more chocolate knowledge to your travels. The museums can be large professional affairs, or small initiatives from artisanal chocolatiers, yet all of them will be able to spice up your travel to some extend. Of course I would love to hear/read about your experiences at any of these museums!

• » Le Musee du Chocolat (chocolate museum)
  Location: Paris (Île-de-France), France
• Activity type(s) courses & workshops → short courses/workshops museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty chocolate → chocolates → general confectionary → type: candy

• » Cadbury World
  Location: Dunedin (Otago), New Zealand
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates; • chocolate → bean cultivation & processing

• » Cadbury World
  Location:Bournville (England), United Kingdom
• Activity type(s):• museums; • places to shop
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Caffarel Chocolate Museum
  Location:Torino (Piemonte), Italy
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Candy Americana© Museum
  Location:Lititz (Pennsylvania), United States
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • cooking → kitchenware

• » Choco-Musée Erico
  Location:Québec (Québec), Canada
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Choco-Story (the chocolate museum)
  Location:Brugge (Flanders), Belgium
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • virtual travel → visit websites – various
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Choco-Story
  Location:Prague (Hlavní Mesto Praha), Czech Republic
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → Extended historical period: Ancient And Classical Periods, 3500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.; • chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Chocoexhibition (Ritter Sport)

• Location:Waldenbuch (Baden-Württemberg), Germany
• Activity type(s):• courses & workshops → short courses/workshops; • museums → single specialty museum; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates

• » Chocoladetempel (Côte d’ Or)
  Location:Halle (Flanders), Belgium
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Chocolate Cafe & Museum
  Location:Put-in-Bay (Ohio), United States
• Activity type(s):• museums; • places to eat & drink → ice cream parlor; • places to eat & drink → coffee shop
• Culinary specialty:• coffee; • chocolate; • confectionary → type: ice cream

• » Chocolate city museum (Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce)
  Location:Burlington (Wisconsin), United States
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Chocolate Museum (Chateâu Chocolat: Real Chocolate Place)
  Location:Seogwipo (Jeju), Korea, South
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Chocolates Clavileño (Hnos López Lloret, S.A.)
  Location:Villajoyosa (Valencian Community), Spain
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → chocolates producer; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates

• » Chocolatrium (Chocolaterie Cluizel)
  Location:Damville (Haute-Normandie), France
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Csokoládé Múzeum
  Location:Budapest (Budapest), Hungary
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » De Chocoladefabriek (expected to open in 2013)
  Location:Amsterdam (Noord-Holland), Netherlands
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate
• » El Museo del Chocolate (Chocolates Comes)
  Location:Sueca (Valencian Community), Spain
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → chocolates producer; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Gemeentemuseum Weesp
  Location:Weesp (Noord-Holland), Netherlands
• Activity type(s):• museums → regional history museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • eating & drinking → tableware → porcelain – general

• » Hacienda “La Luz” (El Primer Museo del Cacao y el Chocolate “Dr. Otto Wolter Hayer”)
  Location:Comalcalco (Tabasco), Mexico
• Activity type(s):• farms & gardens → botanical garden; • museums; • production facilities
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → plantation – country of origin → Country of origin: Mexico; • chocolate → general

• » Hershey Museum
  Location:Hershey (Pennsylvania), United States
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • chocolate → general

• » Imhoff-Stollwerck-Museum (Chocolate Museum Cologne)
  Location:Köln (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germany
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general; • eating & drinking → tableware

• » Ishiya Chocolate Factory
  Location:Sapporo (Hokkaidō), Japan
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Le Musée découverte du chocolat (Chocolats Hautot)
  Location:Fécamp (Haute-Normandie), France
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → chocolates producer; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • confectionary → type: ice cream; • pastry

• » Le Musée du Chocolat de la confisserie Bromont
  Location:Bromont (Québec), Canada
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates; • chocolate → general

• » Le Paradis du Chocolat
  Location:La Côte-Saint-André (Rhône-Alpes), France
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Maison Cailler (Atelier de Chocolat)
  Location:Fribourg, Switzerland
• Activity type(s):• courses & workshops → short courses/workshops; • museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Musée Art du Chocolat
  Location:Lisle-sur-Tarn (Midi-Pyrénées), France
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Musée du Chocolat
  Location:Eupen (Wallonia), Belgium
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → confectionery; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Musée du Chocolat
  Location:Barcelonnette (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), France
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Musée du chocolat (Des Lis chocolat)
  Location:Nemours (Île-de-France), France
• Activity type(s):• museums; • places to shop → delicatessen
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • herbs, spices, condiments & flowers → type: poppy

• » Musée du Chocolat (Chocolaterie Bovetti)
  Location:Terrasson-Lavilledieu (Aquitaine), France
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Musee du chocolat Sao-Tome (Chocolaterie du Drakkar)
  Location:Bayeux (Basse-Normandie), France
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates; • chocolate → general

• » Musée Les Secrets du Chocolat
  Location:Geispolsheim (Alsace), France
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates; • chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Museo del Chocolate
  Location:Astorga (Castille and León), Spain
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Museo del Chocolate Valor
  Location:Villajoyosa (Valencian Community), Spain
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general
• » Museo del Cioccolato
  Location:Norma (Lazio), Italy
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Museo Storico Perugina (historic museum Perugina)
  Location:Perugia (Umbria), Italy
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Museu com a História da Prawer
  Location:Gramado (Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Museu de la Xocolata
  Location:Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain
• Activity type(s):• courses & workshops → short courses/workshops; • museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Museum of Cocoa & Chocolate
  Location:Bruxelles (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale), Belgium
• Activity type(s):• courses & workshops → demonstration; • museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates; • chocolate → general

• » Nederlands Bakkerijmuseum Het Warme Land
  Location:Hattem (Gelderland), Netherlands
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • cooking → kitchen techniques – general → baking

• » Nestlé museo de chocolate
  Location:Tocula (México), Mexico
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Pannys Amazing World of Chocolate (Phillip Island Chocolate Factory)
  Location:Newhaven (Victoria), Australia
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → chocolates; • chocolate → bean cultivation & processing; • chocolate → general

• » Planete Musée Chocolat
  Location:Biarritz (Aquitaine), France
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Red October Chocolate Factory Museum (“КРАСНЫЙ ОКТЯБРЬ”)
  Location:Moscow (Moscow), Russian Federation
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Ritter Sport Colourful Chocoworld
  Location:Berlin (Berlin), Germany
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Schokoladenmuseum (Halloren)
  Location:Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt), Germany
• Activity type(s):• courses & workshops → single topic workshop; • museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → chocolates producer
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Schokoland Alprose (Chocolat Alprose SA)
  Location:Caslano (Ticino), Switzerland
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » SchokoMuseum (Rausch Schokoladen)
  Location:Berlin (Berlin), Germany
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » SchokoMuseum in SchokoLand
  Location:Peine (Niedersachsen), Germany
• Activity type(s):• museums
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate → general

• » Shiroi Koibito Park
  Location:Sapporo (Hokkaidō), Japan
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → bakery; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate; • pastry → cookies – general

• » The Chocolate Museum (Walkers chocolate emporium)
  Location:Ilfracombe (England), United Kingdom
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » The Chocolate Museum (Le Muséé du Chocolat)
  Location:Saint Stephen (New Brunswick), Canada
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » The Chocolate Museum
  Location:Havana (La Habana), Cuba
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • places to eat & drink → on-site eating/drinking
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » The Silky Oak ‘Chocolate Thru’ the Ages’ Museum
  Location:Napier (Hawkes Bay), New Zealand
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • tours → factory tour
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » WAWI Schoko-Welt
  Location:Pirmasens (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany
• Activity type(s):• museums → single specialty museum; • production facilities → chocolates producer; • places to shop → chocolatier
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate

• » Wiener Schokolademuseum (Heindl)
  Location:Wien (Wien), Austria
• Activity type(s):• courses & workshops → short courses/workshops; • museums → single specialty museum
• Culinary specialty:• chocolate