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Discover the Unique Potato Museum in Munich, Germany

The Potato Museum, founded by Eckart Otto in 1996 in Munich, is the world's only museum dedicated exclusively to potato-related art and history. Featuring a diverse collection of oil paintings, watercolors, and graphics that celebrate the potato's impact in art, it showcases everything from Inca history to modern Germany's potato culture. Unique sections cover potato cultivation, usage, and even rarities. Embrace the quirky narrative of the potato and explore its significance in an artistic context—perfect for enthusiasts of art and food alike!

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Discover the Unique Potato Museum in Munich, Germany

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  1. Caylee Coover 3.9.12 Germany

  2. Das Kartoffelmuseum? • When most people think of museums or art they naturally think of sculptures. • Think again… • This is a Potato Museum

  3. Potato Cont. • The Potato Museum, an institution of Eckart Otto Foundation, was opened in 1996 in Munich.  • It shows a diverse collection of exhibits on the subject of potato. • It is the world's only museum that is dedicated exclusively to the potato in art and art-historical terms.

  4. Cont. • oil paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, lithographs, naive glass painting, and modern graphics • everything is represented, has something to do with the potato and / or produced from their products.

  5. Here are some potatoes

  6. cont • The reason this museum is so dedicated to the potato is because its founder was the first to produce “dried potato powder, which, with the addition of water, could be turned into mashed potatoes or other delicacies.” • Unlike other potato museums this is the only one that is dedicated to potato art and its history • Others are often based upon agricultural terms.

  7. Sections of the museum 1.Geschichte: From the Inca gold to the people, food 2.Blüten, plants, bulbs 3.Anbau and harvest 4. Market scenes

  8. Cont. 5. Multi-talented potato: whether jelly or adhesive tape, the potato is always there 6. Rarities collection 7. Prince food and poor people's food 8. Gallery of Modern

  9. Germany • Germany has a rich culture • Traditionally known as "the country of poets and philosophers“ • Germany has over 5,000 art and exhibit houses!

  10. cont • Berlin has its own Museum Island. • Altes Museum • Neues Museum • Alte Nationalgalerie • Bode-Museum • Pergamonmuseum

  11. AltesMuseum • Greek and Roman art and sculptures • This thematically arranged exhibition includes stone sculptures, clay and bronze figures, friezes, vases, gold jewellery and silverware.  • One such sculpture is the Der Betende Knabe If audio does not play click here. Then Click Der Betende Knabe

  12. Sources • http://www.cometogermany.com/ENU/culture_and_events/art_music_culture.htm • http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=3 • YouTube.com • http://www.kartoffelmuseum.de/museumseite.html#

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