The Museo della Cucina in Rome, Italy, is expected to open in May 2022. The new library and museum of cuisine, dedicated to the country’s rich history of food and cooking, will be home to Rossano Boscolo‘s private collection, collected by the chef over four decades.
The museum, on the building’s lower floor, will showcase an array of kitchen instruments that have been used over the centuries, from early seventeenth-century baroque ice cream moulds to gas cookers from the 1950s. The huge collection encompasses everything from contemporary pasta machines to 220-year-old bowls once used by Italian monks.
The collection also includes the first cooking game for children, produced in Ravensburg in 1898.
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Rare texts and artefacts on show
Meanwhile, on the upper floor, the library will take visitors on a journey through the history of the kitchen through its collection of domestic texts, cookbooks, recipes and more. It holds some of the oldest and rarest cookbooks in existence and highlights include the first editions of Scappi and Artusi; as well as texts by Marie-Antoine Careme, Francois Massialot and Urbane Francois Dubois.
Food is always a popular trend in the attractions industry. Recently, experience design studio Bompas and Parr created a new multi-sensory culinary exhibition for Expo 2020 Dubai called The Future of Food: Epochal Banquet. This immersive gastronomic adventure explores issues such as world hunger and food waste, as well as presenting delicacies formed with futuristic techniques.
Elsewhere, Universcience’s latest exhibition, Banquet, is currently at The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, France. This temporary exhibition explores the concept of food and feasting through sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound.
In London, a new DC-inspired food experience called Park Row transports guests to the world of Gotham City.
Image courtesy Museo Della Cucina
