Food Museums Not To Miss While Traveling

When you travel to other countries and see the amazing beauty of sunsets, raptors riding mountain currents, creatures running through rain forests, grizzlies catching salmon in the rapids, majestic waterfalls spilling off vertical drops, and volcanoes smoking under their fiery breath, you realize the world is full of more beauty that you are capable of seeing in a lifetime. If food is your passion you can catch museums that play to that passion.

Frietmuseum (Bruges, Belgium)

It’s recommended you come on an empty stomach.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Frietmuseum is the world's only museum dedicated to French fries, which, despite the name, Belgians claims to have created.

It appears the owners, Cedric and Eddy Van Belle, have a penchant for weird museums, because they also founded Belgium's Domestic Lighting Museum. 

This attraction, however, is altogether more interesting, with exhibitions exploring the history of the world's most popular food, with lots of opportunities to try some yourself. 

Highlight: The ground floor exhibition about potatoes, which were first discovered in Peru 10,000 years ago.

Frietmuseum, Vlamingstraat 33, Bruges

Dutch Cheese Museum (Alkmaar, Netherlands)

Gouda, Edam, Leerdammer, Leyden, Maaslander, Maasdam. 

Keen travelers might recognize these names as cities in the Netherlands, but they're also types of cheese, and the aim of this museum is to educate people about them. 

Fittingly, it's located on the upper floors of the Alkmaar cheese-weighing warehouse. 

Visitors can check out collections of cheese-related tools and kids will love the interactive displays. 

If you're in town between April and September, a visit to the town's cheese market is advised -- it's the largest in the Netherlands and takes place every Friday. 

Highlight: The 15-minute film shown to all visitors. You'll never look at a cheese wheel in the same way again.

Dutch Cheese Museum, Waagplein 2, Alkmaar

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