Sugar - Museum - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Welcome to Germany’s Sweetest Collection

Detail from “Sugar Cane”, a coloured lithograph telling the story of sugar from harvest in the New World to consumption in Europe.

As well as describing the history of sugar beet, the Sugar Museum also contains exhibitions on the history of cane sugar and other sweeteners across a wide range of areas including chemistry and biology, cultural history and politics, agriculture and industry, trade and consumption, nutrition, folklore and art.

Why is the sugarloaf called hat in German? How is sugar obtained and what do toads have to do with sugar? The exhibition includes birds made from sugar, an old Bolivian sugar cane mill, a model of the oldest sugar beet factory in the world as well as analysis devices and products made from sugar by-products, such as coverings for car interiors, cardboards, vinegar, alcohol, fertilizer and animal feed.