Deutsches Currywurst Museum

Deutsches Currywurst Museum
Established 2009
Location Berlin, Germany
Type food museums
Website currywurstmuseum.com/en/

The Deutsches Currywurst Museum is a museum in Berlin dedicated to the German sausage currywurst.

The museum is located in Berlin Mitte near Checkpoint Charlie and is the first and only museum about currywurst.[1] The museum receives approximately 350,000 visitors annually.[2]

History

The museum opened on August 15, 2009, 60 years after the invention of currywurst in 1949 by Berliner Herta Heuwer.[3] Museum founder, Martin Löwer, considered the currywurst to possess "cult status" in Germany and used the sausage's fame as justification to create the museum.[4]

Exhibit

Patrons follow a "sauce trail" through the history of currywurst.[3] The museum is highly interactive, with exhibits and displays aimed at engaging the senses of sight, smell, and sound.[1] Highlights include a spice chamber with sniffing stations, a sausage-shaped sofa, audio stations playing currywurst-themed songs, and a virtual currywurst making game called "Curry Up!" The museum also has special installations at children's eye-level.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Data and Facts". http://currywurstmuseum.com/''. Deutsches Currywurst Museum. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Meyer-Radtke, Marion (19 March 2009). "Berliner Museum: Kult um die Currywurst". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Copley, Caroline (13 August 2009). "German cult sausage gets own museum". Reuters. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  4. ↑ von Leszczynski, Ulrike (14 August 2009). "Heiß und fettig: Berlin eröffnet Currywurst-Museum". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 19 July 2014.

Coordinates: 52°30′32″N 13°23′28″E / 52.5088°N 13.3912°E