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Museums/Collections: General—Culinary History |
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Agropolis - Museum
951 Avenue Agropolis
Montpellier 34394
FRANCE
Curator: Agropolis-Museum is the public science center of Agropolis, the International Complex for Research and Higher Education in Agriculture, a France-based international confederation of research institutes studying problems of ecology, agriculture, agronomy, food, and nutrition.
Tel/Fax: 04 67 04 75 00, 04 67 04 12 69
Website: museum@agropolis.fr
Email: museum.agropolis.gr/english/index.html |
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Mission: The museum aims to present the historical human struggle to secure enough food, showing how this struggle goes on endlessly and how scientific research can help solve problems related to food production. There are three main sections: Orientation Room, Thematic Room, and Prospective Room. Exhibits include the history of food and agriculture in pre-agricultural, agricultural, and agro-industrial times, emphasizing the Euro-Mediterranean region; examples of eight types of food production systems (rangeland grazing in the Morocco Atlas mountains, intensive rice farming on Jogjakarta island in Indonesia, industrial greenhouses in the Netherlands, constrained and diversified agriculture in the Sahel of Sudan, high-yield extensive farming in the American Midwest, traditional peasant farming in Mexico, export-oriented cocoa plantations in Cameroon, and cooperative vineyards in the Languedoc region of France); Agrarian Landscapes of the World, illustrating cultivation, irrigation and pasturing environments, and "The Dining Table of the World," a scenographic sculpture dramatizing the major problems in feeding humankind properly (focusing on Bangladesh, Somalia, Rwanda, Colombia, Argentina, Portugal, Japan, and France). The museum also houses an international archive of conserved documents on agriculture and food.
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Admission Info: Open 2-6pm every day except Tuesday. Admission: fee, reduced or free for young people, seniors and unemployed
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Museums/Collections: General—Culinary History |
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Ajinomoto Foundation for Dietary Culture
16-7 Kyobashi 1 Chome, Chuo-Ko
Tokyo 104-8315
JAPAN
Curator: Established in 1989 under authorization of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the public interest. Supported mainly by an endowment from the Ajinomoto Co., Inc
Tel/Fax: 03-5250-8396, Fax - 03-5250-8243
Website: www.ajinomoto.com/asb01/doc/index.html |
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Mission: The Foundation supports a library (23,000 volumes plus many antique documents, wood block prints and videos), all related to dietary culture. It also hosts academic conferences on food-related topics, publishes the proceedings , bibliographies, and related books, and provides financial support for research projects on the culture of food and eating habits. A quarterly magazine on dietary culture also is published and videos on traditional foods and eating habits are produced.
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Admission Info: Open to the public
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Culinary/Food Museums or Collections (General)—Catering, Restaurants |
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American Diner Museum
110 Benevolent St.
P.O. Box 6022
Providence RI 02906
Tel/Fax: 401-331-8575 X102
Website: www.dinermuseum.org
Email: acomhp@yahoo.com |
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Mission: Planned to be a tribute to those who built, operated, and worked in diners
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Other Info: PLANNED BUT NOT YET OPEN To be located at Heritage Harbor near the Culinary Archives and Museum at Johnson and Wales University
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Culinary/Food Museums or Collections (General)—Culinary History |
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Baxter's of Speyside
Baxter's Highland Village
Fochabers IV32 7LD
SCOTLAND
Tel/Fax: 01343-820-666
Website: www.baxters.com |
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Mission: Tells story of the development of the food company over the past 130 years. Reconstructed grocer's shop to show what shopping was like when Baxter's started in the 1860s.. Some original Baxter's products. Also 20-minute audiovisual show. Victorian kitchen, tea room, and George Baxter's Cellar.
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Admission Info: Open daily, April - Christmas, 9 am - 5:30 pm; January - April, 10 am - 5 pm. Tours are provided
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Other Info: Located within the Baxter's factory site.
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Culinary/Food Museums or Collections (General)—Catering, Restaurants |
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Bewley's Cafe Museum
Grafton Street
Dublin 2
IRELAND
Tel/Fax: 01 776761 |
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Mission: Museum occupies former bakery, upstairs in Cafe. Objects, documents and photos on history of the Cafe and its evolution from the original 18th-century Bewley's tea and coffee business.
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Admission Info: Open daily, 11 am - 5 pm.
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Other Info: Small number of cafe tables in Museum.
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Museums/Collections: General—Culinary History |
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Callendar House
Callendar Park
Falkirk FK1 1YR
SCOTLAND
Tel/Fax: 01324-503-770
Website: www.falkirkmuseums.demon.co.uk
Email: callendar.house@falkirk.gov.uk |
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Mission: Callendar House encapsulates 600 years of Scottish history. The well-equipped 1825 kitchen with its open fire and roasting spit and 19th-century range sees members of the kitchen staff going about their daily tasks of cooking, using authentic recipes of the time. The Georgian Garden has only traditional Georgian varieties in its kichen garden tended by garden interpreters.
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Admission Info: Open all year: Monday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm; April - September only, Sunday 2 - 5 pm. Admission fee.
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Culinary/Food Museums or Collections (General)—Culinary History |
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Chicago Culinary Museum and Chefs' Hall of Fame
650 E. Diehl Rd Suite 100
Naperville IL 60563
Tel/Fax: 312-718-3221 (ask for Carmella)
Website: www.thechicagoculinarymuseum.org/
Email: director@chef.chas@sbcglobal.net |
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Mission: To promote and celebrate Chicago as a culinary mecca.
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Museums/Collections: General—Gastronomy |
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Collection d'Arts de la Table
Niderviller 57116
FRANCE
Tel/Fax: 38728004 |
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Museums/Collections: General—Gastronomy |
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Collection sur la Vin et la Gastronomie, University du Gout
Chauteau de la Coste
Grezels 46700
FRANCE
Tel/Fax: 565213418 |
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Museums/Collections: General—Catering, Restaurants |
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Collections du Restaurant Procope
13 Rue de l'Ancienne-Comedie
Paris 75006
FRANCE
Tel/Fax: 143269920 |
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