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.
Cologne is a city with many facets. A very diverse city that is characterized by different images. There are many different districts, each with its own unique character and charm. These characteristics can of course be captured on camera.
The chocolate vending machines installed by Stollwerck proved to be extremely successful from as early as 1887. In 1893, around 15,000 vending machines sold Stollwerck chocolate, 4,000 of which were located in New York alone.
Our tropical house is a real highlight of the exhibition - and not just for the frostbitten among you who want to warm up here in the warm and humid climate of the tropics.
For the sixth time now, an international conference on a current topic related to cocoa was held at the Chocolate Museum in Cologne on May 23 and 24. The event is organized and held jointly with GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and Südwind.
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. The first chocolate bar was produced just 150 years ago.
The theme of sustainability runs like a common thread through our exhibition "World Cocoa Journey". Scouts for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. How some of our employees became scouts.
It is impossible to imagine our lives without chocolate. It is a comfort food, nourishment for the soul and a "Genussmittel" at the same time. Did you know that Germany is the largest producer and consumer of chocolate in Europe?
Do you know how complex the production of a finished chocolate bar on the supermarket shelf actually is? From the cultivation of the cocoa plant to the conching of the cocoa mass to the chocolate bar, the journey of the cocoa to the finished chocolate bar is extremely complex.
