German Currywurst Museum Berlin

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German Currywurst Museum in Berlin-Mitte

The German Currywurst Museum Berlin was in the Schützenstraße 70 in Berlin district of Mitte . It was the first museum in Germany to focus on currywurst .

history

The museum was opened on August 15, 2009 and showed the “unique history of the German currywurst cultural asset ”. The idea for the museum is said to have come from the initiator Martin Löwer during a visit to a yam museum in Jamaica . Three years later, with the help of 20 private donors, he was able to raise the necessary five million euros and open the museum. However, the museum had to be closed again on December 21, 2018. The museum had just under a million visitors before it closed.

Subject areas

Currywurst with French fries

The museum was divided into five subject areas:

  • Shop magic & snack culture: The visitors were able to enter a replica of a snack stand and look into the museum from the perspective of a seller. A map of Berlin showed the location of well-known currywurst stalls, such as " Curry 36 " or " Konnopke's Imbiß ". The global distribution of currywurst could be traced on a world map.
  • Ingredients & spices: The different ingredients of the curry powder were displayed in a spice chamber and their origin explained.
  • History & legend: A separate room was dedicated to Herta Heuwer , who is considered to be the inventor of the currywurst.
  • Ecology & fast food: In the back of the museum the manufacturing process of a cardboard box for currywurst was shown. A timeline provided an example of how eating habits have developed over the past 5000 years.
  • Cinema & TV: Scenes from well-known TV series were shown, such as three ladies from the grill or from the crime scene , in which the currywurst was featured. The American short film Best of the Wurst by Grace Lee was shown in a separate area .

Awards

  • One Show Design Award: Silver Pencil
  • Art Directors Club : Award in the categories "Communication in Space" and "Environmental Design"
  • DDC Prize: Silver Prize "Good Design 11"
  • iF Industry Forum Design : "iF communication design award"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Pape: A museum for currywurst. In: Focus Online , accessed October 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Ulrike von Leszczynski: Hot and greasy: Berlin opens Currywurst Museum. In: Spiegel Online , August 14, 2009; Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ currywurstmuseum.com. Retrieved December 22, 2018
  4. ↑ Markus Wehner: Permanently closed: In Berlin, the currywurst will in future be available without a museum , faz.net from January 1, 2019, accessed on January 2, 2019
  5. ↑ Frederike Ebert: The discovery of the Currywurst Museum. ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Monopol , August 10, 2011, accessed October 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ Berliner Currywurst Museum receives two awards on ad-hoc-news.de, accessed on October 16, 2011.
  7. ↑ Awards Gute Gestaltung 11 on ddc.de ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 16, 2011 (PDF; 40 kB).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ddc.de
  8. ↑ Press release of the museum on the award ceremony ( memento of the original from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at currywurstmuseum.de, accessed on October 16, 2011 (PDF; 170 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.currywurstmuseum.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '31.7 "  N , 13 ° 23' 28.2"  E