We, the team at the Chocolate Museum and Gerda the Chocolate Girl, are delighted to tell you exciting stories about the Chocolate Museum Cologne on this blog. We'll take you behind the scenes of one of Germany's most visited museums and give you insights that regular museum visitors don't get to see.
Gerda is the chocolate girl from Cologne's Südstadt district. This series of entertaining stories about the Cologne Chocolate Museum, the history of chocolate and the cathedral city of Cologne is all about her. The stories provide an insight into the Chocolate Museum.
Do you think chocolate only belongs in sweet desserts? Then you haven't yet discovered the culinary world of Mole Poblano - the famous Mexican dish in which chocolate is the secret protagonist.
Homemade drinking chocolate: Sometimes you have a few pieces left over from a delicious bar of chocolate and wonder what to do with them. Here is the recipe for our delicious drinking chocolate!
The new exhibition invites you on an exciting journey of discovery through over 5,000 years of cocoa history. It starts with the origins in Ecuador and takes you all the way to modern chocolate production.
She would certainly have changed her mind at the Chocolate Museum. Trude Herr and chocolate. Everyone likes chocolate. Don't we? After all, Woody Allen made a whole film about it. But, as we all know, tastes differ.
Sustainability is a huge topic and often feels abstract. Many people understand that global problems such as hunger exist, but there is a lack of concrete recommendations for action.
In December 2000, Hans Imhoff established the charitable Imhoff Foundation. In doing so, he turned his desire to do good in his home town into reality.
In 2025, the redesigned exhibition section on the cultural history of cocoa and chocolate will open step by step. The first room is now open: The colorful world of chocolate from the late 19th to the 20th century is on display in a historic drugstore.
Easter is just around the corner and what would this celebration be without chocolate? Here at the Chocolate Museum Cologne, everything revolves around the sweet temptation and we would like to introduce you to the special connection between Easter and chocolate.
Have you ever taken part in a wine tasting or other tasting event? Then it is unfortunately likely that you have been given an explanation of our human taste with a ‘tongue atlas’.
Cargo bikes were not invented to transport Amazon packages around town, even if that is the impression given in many large cities.
The Christmas holidays are over, but maybe you still have some delicious leftover chocolate? Instead of just putting them in the cupboard and forgetting about them, you can turn them into something new and delicious!
We made this unique creation in our confectionery at the Cologne Chocolate Museum and, of course, tasted it too. Let yourself be enchanted by the tempting combination of melt-in-the-mouth chocolate, crunchy kadayif and aromatic pistachios.
