Disgusting Food Museum Stuttgart

Essen ist so viel mehr als nur Nahrung. Ungewöhnliche Speisen aus exotischen Kulturen haben uns schon immer fasziniert. Ungewohnte Lebensmittel können köstlich sein – oder eher ein erworbener Geschmack. Während kulturelle Unterschiede uns oft trennen und Grenzen schaffen, kann Essen uns auch verbinden. Eine gemeinsame Mahlzeit ist der beste Weg, aus Fremden Freunde zu machen.

Die evolutionäre Funktion von Ekel besteht darin, uns vor Krankheiten und unsicheren Lebensmitteln zu schützen. Ekel ist eine der sechs grundlegenden menschlichen Emotionen. Zwar ist das Gefühl universell, doch die Speisen, die wir als ekelerregend empfinden, sind es nicht. Was für den einen eine Delikatesse ist, kann für den anderen widerlich sein. Das Disgusting Food Museum lädt Besucher dazu ein, die Welt der Lebensmittel zu erkunden und ihre Vorstellungen davon, was essbar ist – und was nicht – zu hinterfragen. Könnte ein verändertes Verständnis von Ekel uns helfen, umweltfreundlichere Nahrungsmittel der Zukunft anzunehmen?

Die Ausstellung zeigt 80 der ekelerregendsten Speisen der Welt. Abenteuerlustige Besucher haben die Möglichkeit, einige dieser berüchtigten Speisen zu riechen und sogar zu probieren. Traust du dich, den stinkendsten Käse der Welt zu riechen? Oder Süßigkeiten zu kosten, die mit Metallreinigern hergestellt wurden?

EXHIBITED DELICACIES INCLUDE:

Pressestimmen

Even the foods that appear at the museum in their real forms posed unusual difficulties. To make cuy, a Peruvian dish, West had to watch several YouTube videos on how to skin and boil a guinea pig. “I sent my wife and children away the day I did it,” he recalled. “It just felt wrong, bordering on criminal.” For a South Korean wine that demanded the “fresh turds” of children, Ahrens found himself scooping up his eight-year-old daughter’s excrement and fermenting it with rice wine. The final product is on display at the museum, in a gallon jug, though Ahrens has not mustered the will to try it.

The New Yorker
The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting”
In this episode of the Atlas Obscura podcast, we visit a food museum in Sweden that challenges what exactly makes something delicious … or disgusting.

Atlas Obscura
Podcast episode
It is a hands-on, tongues-out experience. At the Museum of Disgusting Food in Malmö, in Sweden, all the world’s great cuisines are represented. Each exhibit is considered a delicacy somewhere, but strikes many unaccustomed palates as revolting. Visitors are invited to handle a raw bull’s penis and sip liquor with dead mice in it.

The Economist
The idea that anything labeled “food” can be described as “disgusting” is a minefield, running up against cultural tastes and personal preferences, not to mention the shrinking ability of some countries to feed all their people. But clearly, if every human had a cornucopia of the world’s edibles laid out on a table stretching from one end of the earth to the next, not everyone would dig enthusiastically into, say, a lamprey pie, a sliver of maggot-infested pecorino or a chunk of rotten shark meat.

New York Times
Fermenterad isländsk surhaj, ost med larver och surkålsjuice. Utställningen som öppnade i Malmö på onsdagen är ingen gourmetmässa – tvärtom så är det äcklet som står i fokus. – Äckel är subjektivt. Det handlar om vad man har vuxit upp med, säger arrangören Andreas Ahrens.

Expressen
There was a time when museums were reserved for fine art and high-brow nonsense we only pretend to understand. These days, the world is full of wonderfully weird museums accessible to the everyman with everything from broken relationships and all things phallic to ramen and barbed wire. Now, Sweden is set to open one more: the world’s grossest food museum.

The Manual
Welcome to the world’s first exhibition devoted to foods that some would call revolting. The museum’s name and its contents are pretty controversial — one culture’s disgusting is another culture’s delicacy. That goes for escamoles, the tree-ant larvae eaten in Mexico, or shirako, the cod sperm eaten in Japan, or bird’s nest soup, a Chinese dish of nests made from bird saliva. The name is meant to grab visitors’ attention, but that’s the point that West says he’s trying to make: Disgust is a cultural construct.

Washington Post
Intervju med Andreas Ahrens i Expressen TV

Expressen TV
It’s easy to read the museum as a culturally insensitive house of culinary horrors — people (who are not me) in places (that are not here) eat that? And sure, there’s not not a gross-out factor, as evidenced by the name. But West told me the actual mission is the opposite: By really diving into the world of disgust, he’s hoping he can change the way people eat, and maybe save the world.

Vox
Disgust is considered one of the basic human emotions, much like Pixar’s movie Inside Out showed us. It protects us from disease by making us avoid unsafe food— and yet while the emotion itself is universal, the food that we classify as “disgusting” is not. And that’s exactly why Swedish Samuel West and Andrea Ahrens created a museum dedicated to disgusting food from everywhere across the world.

Lonely Planet
The main objective is to make it fun, interesting and interactive," said West, who explains that the exhibition is quite expensive since about half of the dishes are replaced every two days.

20 Minutos
The name of the museum leaves little suspense on what will be there. On the menu, eighty culinary specialties that the world does not envy.

Slate France

Location

Stuttgart, Germany

Königstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart

Öffnungszeiten

Montag-Freitag: 11:00-20:00 Uhr
Samstag-Sonntag: 10:00-20:00 Uhr
Feiertage: 10:00-20:00 Uhr

Hinweis: Letzter Einlass ist um 19:00 Uhr

Anfahrt

Unsere Räumlichkeiten befinden sich zentral in Stuttgart, direkt in der Königstraße 21, nur wenige Gehminuten vom Hauptbahnhof entfernt.

Mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln oder zu Fuß:

Vom Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart erreichen Sie uns in ca. 8 Minuten zu Fuß.
Folgen Sie einfach der Königstraße (Fußgängerzone) in Richtung Schlossplatz – unser Gebäude befindet sich auf der linken Seite.

Mit dem Auto:

Alle genannten Parkhäuser sind nur wenige Gehminuten entfernt und rund um die Uhr geöffnet.

Geben Sie in Ihr Navigationsgerät folgende Adresse ein:
Königsstraße 21, 70173 Stuttgart
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Past

Disgusting Food Museum Bordeaux

Located in Cap Sciences, open June 12, 2021, January 2, 2022.

Disgusting Food Museum Nantes

6-week exhibit during fall of 2019

Disgusting Food Museum Los Angeles

3-month exhibit during the winter of 2018/2019

Current

Disgusting Food Museum Malmö

Open since 2018

Disgusting Food Museum Berlin

Future

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