# The Museum’s creation:

# The Museum’s creation:

This museum was opened in 1993 by the German industrial Hans Imhoff.

After the Second World War, he owned an important chocolate and sugar factory. In 1972 he bought the chocolate company "Stollwerk" that became a European group immediately after the purchase of another factory.

So Hans Imhoff became very rich and decided to create a museum after the discovery that was made in 1975 : an important collection of old chocolate vending machines and other stuffs. He asked some help from a German historian to collect more items for his museum and then enriched his collection, and the museum could finally open in 1993.

Hans Imhoff died in 2001 and his wife is now the managing director.

About the architecture, they created a glass and aluminum futuristic building that they add ED to the old building in yellow stone.

 

Since 2006, the famous Swiss chocolate factory ‘Lindt’ is a partner of the museum and you can see how they made chocolate.

The Shokoladenmuseum is visited by 600,000 visitors a year, which places it among the first ten most visited museums in Germany.

The museum is divided into two sections, one on each floor.

On the ground floor, you have: the entry, the first part of the museum, the shop, public restroom and administrative rooms.

The first part of the museum is composed of rooms about chocolate in the economy, a tropicarium and the place of production of a little Lindt factory.

On the second flooryou can see the use and trade of chocolate among civilizations from the Aztecs until now. For example in the last part, you have some exhibition stands about famous other chocolate firms such as "Kinder", "Milka"....

So, come with us to discover this delicious museum.