Disgusting Food Museum Berlin
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The Disgusting Food Museum Berlin showcases over 90 unique food exhibits from various cultures, encouraging visitors to challenge their perceptions of taste and explore global culinary diversity.
Planning your visit
The Disgusting Food Museum makes a serious anthropological argument through deliberately provocative means: disgust is culturally learned rather than innate, and what one society considers a delicacy another finds unbearable.
Over 90 exhibits from around the world make the case — surstromming, the fermented Baltic herring whose smell is genuinely overwhelming; hakarl, Icelandic fermented shark; casu marzu, the Sardinian cheese containing live maggots; durian; century eggs; and, pointedly, items Westerners eat that others find repulsive, including blue cheese, root beer and Twinkies.
The tasting bar is the part everyone remembers, offering samples of the more challenging items with vomit bags provided as tickets, which is only partly a joke.
The underlying point about food sustainability — that insect protein and other unfamiliar sources may be necessary — is made without hectoring.
Allow around an hour.
Bookable options include entry with tasting. Current availability is shown below.
Before you book
Where is Disgusting Food Museum Berlin?
Disgusting Food Museum Berlin is in Berlin, Germany. The map on this page marks its exact location.
How long should I allow for Disgusting Food Museum Berlin?
Allow an hour. That is the time the collection itself takes at an unhurried pace, before any queue.
Do I need to book Disgusting Food Museum Berlin in advance?
Tickets can be bought on the door at quiet times, but booking ahead fixes the date and avoids the queue at busy ones. Live availability is shown on this page.
