Chocolate-The Exhibition

CHOCOLATE TODAY

Find out how people around the world cook with it, eat and drink it, and use it in holiday celebrations. Learn about the myths and realities of chocolate’s effect on health. Discover your “chocolate personality” with a fun game. Wrap up your experience by shopping for chocolate treats and goodies!

The Exhibition will engage all of your senses as you trace the story of the “food of the gods,” from its earliest cultivation among the ancient peoples of the rain forest to its status today as the world’s favorite sweet. Immersive exhibits, fun interactives, and detailed replicas and objects place chocolate under the lenses of science, history, and popular culture.

What you’ll do:

• Stand under a life-size cacao tree and touch pods and seeds.
• Barter for precious cacao seeds in an interactive Aztec marketplace.
• Follow cacao’s journey to Spain, where it was combined with sugar to create a drink that only the rich could afford.
• Explore how new technology and creative advertising during the Industrial Revolution transformed chocolate from an expensive luxury to an affordable product for all.
• Gaze at beautiful European silver and porcelain chocolate servers, examples of 19th- and 20th-century advertising and packaging, vintage chocolate molds, and detailed botanical reproductions.
• Learn how farmers today grow cacao in ways that protect the rainforest.

THIS IS THE LAST DAY FOR THIS EXHIBIT