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Our chocolate blog

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.

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Gerda – The Chocolate Girl

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.

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Cocoa history

How old is our cocoa? The oldest archaeological traces. For us, chocolate is a natural part of life. Yet the history of chocolate, including the history of cocoa in Germany and Europe, is not all that old.