WOK - World of Kitchen Museum

Entrance to the WOK - World of Kitchen and museum café on the right

The WOK - World of Kitchen Kitchen Museum (short form: WOK-Museum) in Hanover is the first large museum for kitchens in Europe. It was opened on April 15, 2010 in the company building of the former large printing plant Fehling in the List district . The museum is from the club WOK World of Kitchen Museum e. V. operated.

description

The history of kitchen culture from the Middle Ages to modern times is shown on 1400 m² of exhibition space , including kitchens from different nations, continents, myths and fairy tales. There is a hall with miniature kitchens and dollhouse kitchens.

Other facilities at the museum include a museum café and a school and teaching kitchen with a library of around 8,000 cookbooks.

The museum offers four to six tours a day. Once a year, on the night of the museums , the kitchens are livened up with amateur actors who wear historical costumes and demonstrate the craft and kitchen events of bygone times.

Exhibitions

The kitchen museum opened on April 15, 2010. Since then, new kitchen berths have been added every quarter.

In November 2010 the first special exhibition on the topic of 100 years of Christmas baking opened. A large special Easter egg exhibition followed in April 2011, and from September the AEG exhibits moved into the halls.

From August 31 to November 30, 2012, there was a special exhibition on the subject of Sarotti . The history of the chocolate brand - from 1852 until today - was presented with over 500 exhibits.

A donation in September 2012 enables the kitchen museum to build an Italian kitchen from Tuscany with hand-painted furniture from Trentino and a cast stove. Visitors can find out interesting facts about pasta , Alba truffles and Venetian trays on a guided tour.

In October 2012, French cuisine became the Parisian bistro “La Truffe” with corresponding shop windows, old street lamps and bistro chairs from the Jardin du Luxembourg . Delicacies that define French cuisine were displayed in the windows: pies, terrines, raw milk cheese, baked goods and champagne. Original china from the famous Parisian train station restaurant Le Train Bleu was also shown.

As part of the wide-ranging exhibition “Clay-Trace-Ceramics”, which is exhibited in 50 North German museums, there will be a special exhibition in the kitchen museum in 2013 on the subject of porcelain and its production. Under the motto “The elephant in the porcelain shop”, the exhibition shows, among other things, the private collection of 600 coffee pots from two centuries in many shapes and colors. In addition, the production of porcelain is shown on small models the size of dollhouse crockery.

In September 2013 the special exhibition “Coffee and Tea from Overseas ...” presented the history of drinks and their preparation. The topic also included cocoa beans and their processing.

In November 2013 a kitchen from the old country was set up. The turned wedding furniture from the 1920s has a long tradition in the Elbmarsch .

2014 was after a long search finally the first fitted kitchen, the Frankfurt Kitchen of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky be included in the exhibition. This was created in 1926 for the Ernst May settlement in Frankfurt and cost 500 Reichsmarks at the time . The special exhibition "Very British" was a crowd puller in the year of the personal union.

The Japanese tea (t) room was created in 2015. In addition, the Scandinavian house with a Swedish kitchen from 1930 and the American TV show kitchen "Dinner & Diner" have moved in. The "Pudding Kitchen" is the special exhibition on the subject of savory and sweet puddings since 1305. Among other things, there are many shapes and sales aids from Dr. Oetker to see.

society

Volunteer at the kitchen museum WOK - World of Kitchen Kitchen Museum ;
2016 at the 7th Hanover Volunteer Exchange in the gallery building of the Herrenhausen Gardens

The non-profit association supports itself through the visitor income and does not receive any public funding. He has set himself the task of imparting knowledge of nutrition education to children and young people - from pre-school age to young professionals. Guided tours for school classes and learning how to handle and prepare food are offered.

Five years after the museum opened, the association has already held over 450 cooking courses with over 11,000 children and young people in the integrated school kitchen.

Club members took part in the Steuben Parade in New York in September 2013 , where they presented the WOK Kitchen Museum in traditional kitchen costumes. At the reception of the Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg , the museum received the silver medal, which is on display at the museum.

In 2013, the association was one of the winners of the Lower Saxony Prize for Civic Commitment , which was awarded on November 30, 2013 and is donated by the State of Lower Saxony , VGH Insurance and the Lower Saxony Savings Banks. The association, chaired by Carl-Werner Möller-Hof zum Berge, was honored for its commitment to teaching more than 8000 children healthy eating in the school kitchen.

Web links

Commons : WOK - World of Kitchen Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the museum
• Video clips on youtube .com (selection):
• WOK-Museum, Europe's first active kitchen museum in a TV program of the North German Radio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The association. WOK-World of Kitchen Museum e. V., accessed on August 21, 2012 . 
2. ↑ children. WOK-World of Kitchen Museum e. V., January 1, 2012, accessed on August 21, 2012 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 15 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 24 ″  E