Disgusting Food Museum Berlin — Attraction in Berlin

If you’ve ever wanted to test the limits of your tastebuds—and your gag reflex—this is the place.

The Disgusting Food Museum is not your typical foodie destination. Instead of gourmet delicacies, you’re greeted with fermented shark, maggot cheese, and drinks that smell like feet. But that’s the point. It’s less about “ew” and more about cultural perspective. What’s disgusting to one person might be a delicacy to another.

The Good: • Incredibly educational. The exhibits are well-researched, and you’ll walk away with a new appreciation for global food traditions. • Interactive. You can smell and even taste some of the world’s most infamous foods. If you dare. • Perfect for kids (with strong stomachs) and adults who love weird facts and wild experiences.

The Not-So-Good: • The smell. Oh god, the smell. Bring mints. • Not for the faint-hearted or weak-stomached. Seriously. Some displays are intense. • The tasting bar can be a mixed bag (pun intended). Brave souls only.

– A hilarious, gross, unforgettable museum visit. It’s more of a challenge than a meal, but if you’re in the mood to be equal parts educated and repulsed, this is your spot. Go with friends—you’ll want someone to laugh...

17 Euro entry fee was a bit steep for a place so small that it takes less than an hour. Half of the displays had interesting items, but the other half seemed to be some person’s opinions on politics and meat consumption. For example, an unnecessary anti-American political statement was made on the placard that tries to scientifically explain the concept of disgust and its different facets. It was very cringe since it didn’t fit. There were also American foods displayed at the museum but without explanation given as to why they were disgusting, and I doubt these items meet the museums criteria of eating it “creating widespread disgust”, but are just representative of some Eurocentric viewpoint. Same with a couple meat products. It was obvious the creator had a personal vendetta against meat consumption and is hoping for a future that eats bugs in the name of sustainability. Even without all the cringe here, everything else at the exhibit could’ve been done a lot better, with more information besides just a paragraph or two, and was missing a few stereotypical disgusting food items found around the world, such as haggis, Korean silk worms, pickled egg, Mexican tequila worm, chicken...

This is a fun and enlightening museum. I learnt a lot about so many bizarre, pungent, and insanely disgusting food items. I like how museum curators exhibit all those items at a truly global scale. It shows that while it might be relative to call some food disgusting, it is universal for human beings to feel disgusted by some food or food-consuming practices. Curators also tactfully employ cuteness to soften the presentation of some truly disturbing and unsettling food/food consumption, such as dog meat consumption in some parts of Asia. Another highlight that I appreciate is how curators include in the exhibition a section of highly processed food products with high concentration of sugar and additives, such as pop tarts. That really made me rethink if the food that I put into my mouth regularly in this age of industrialization and artificiality can really be called food. All in all, this museum is worth checking out. A small suggestion I’d have for the curators is to consider adding more cultural and historical contexts to the descriptions of those disgusting food items/food consumptions. Some extra research on those contexts would significantly enrich...