Food Museums and Exhibits

In recent years, a number of museums devoted to food and its production have opened; some are virtual, while others have actual brick-and-mortar facilities. Some of these sites represent exhibits that no longer exist, though their electronic shadows may last forever.

• Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology

• http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/HistoryTechnology/text/SSHT-0017.txt

• American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts

• http://www.theamericancenter.org/home.html

• American Diner Museum, The

• http://www.dinermuseum.org

• American Maple Museum

• http://www.lcida.org/maplemuseum.html

• Art at the Table: Lotos Club State Dinner Menus, 1898–1922

• http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/Prev%20small/arttable.htm

• Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural, The Museums (ALHFAM)

• http://www.alhfam.org/index.php

• Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia

• http://www.burlingamepezmuseum.com

• Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

• http://www.cbmm.org

• Directory of Food and Beverage Museums and Collections, A

• http://www.foodhistorynews.com/directory.html

• Explore the History and Making of Butter

• http://webexhibits.org/butter/index.html)

• Farmers’ Museum

• http://www.farmersmuseum.org

• Food and Feasting

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_foodfe.htm

• Food Culture Museum

• http://www.foodcultura.org/start.html

• Food Museum Blog

• http://foodmuseum.typepad.com

• Food Museum, The

• http://www.foodmuseum.com

• Foods of the Chinese New Year

• http://foodmuseum.com/chinesenew.html

• Hershey Museum

• http://www.hersheymuseum.org/home%20folder/homef.html

• Historic Restaurant Photographs

• http://collections.mcny.org/MCNY/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox&IT=ZoomImageTemplate01_VForm&IID=2F3XC5U0AB9V&CT=Image&Flash=1#/ViewBox_VPage&VBID=24UP1G0PXCZ&CT=Search

• Hot Dogs as America

• http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/baseball/hotdogs

• How Women Reshaped the Modern Kitchen

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/garden/02QNA.html

• Idaho Potato Museum & Gift Shop

• http://www.potatoexpo.com

• Jell-O Museum Web Site

• http://www.jellomuseum.com

• Just for Openers

• http://www.just-for-openers.org

• Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum

• http://www.nutcrackermuseum.com

• Museum of Burnt Food

• http://www.burntfoodmuseum.com

• Museums about Food & Eating

• http://www.foodmuseum.com/exfm2.html

• Name That Candybar

• http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/c/crosssection/namethatbar.html

• National Agricultural Center & Hall of Fame, The

• http://www.AgHallofFame.com

• Natural History Museum of Sugar

• http://www.sugarmuseum.org

• Not by Bread Alone

• http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/default.htm

• Nuts . . . Their History

• http://www.nutcrackermuseum.com/history_nuts.htm

• New York Food Museum

• http://www.nyfoodmuseum.org

• Online Pizza History Museum

• http://www.foodmuseum.com/pizza.html

• Origins and Ancient History of Wine, The

• http://www.penn.museum/sites/wine/wineintro.html

• Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

• http://www.whiskeymuseum.com

• Reading History in Chinese Menus

• http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_73/readinghistoryinchinese.html

• Recommended by Duncan Hines

• http://www.visitbgky.com/DuncanHinesMuseum

• Rice Museum

• http://www.ricemuseum.com

• Royal Sugar Sculpture

• http://historicfood.com/Royal-sugar-Sculpture.htm

• Sodamuseum.com

• http://www.sodamuseum.bigstep.com

• Spices: Exotic Flavors & Medicines

• http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/biomed/spice/index.cfm

• Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

• http://www.stonebarnscenter.org

• Sugar Museum, The

• http://www.sugarmuseum.org

• Taking America to Lunch

• http://americanhistory.si.edu/lunchboxes

• Toaster Museum, The

• http://www.toaster.org

• Vidalia Onion Museum

• http://www.vidaliaonion.org/about_us/vidalia_onion_museum

• Virtual Corkscrew Museum, The

• www.corkscrewmuseum.com or

• http://www.bullworks.net/virtual.htm

• Welcome to America the Bountiful

• http://www.culinary.org/exhibition/atb/America%20the%20Bountiful_openning.htm

• Wessels Living History Farm, The

• http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/index.html

• What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?

• http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/whats-cooking

• World of Coca-Cola Atlanta

• http://www.woccatlanta.com