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.
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.
