Deutsches Currywurst Museum

The Deutsches Currywurst Museum was a museum in Berlin dedicated to German currywurst sausage.

Deutsches Currywurst Museum

Established	2009 (2009)
Dissolved	2018 (2018)
Location	Berlin, Germany
Type	Food museum
Website	currywurstmuseum.com/en/

The museum was located in Berlin-Mitte near Checkpoint Charlie and was the first and only museum about currywurst.^[1] The museum received approximately 350,000 visitors annually.^[2]

The museum has been permanently closed since 21 December 2018.^[3]

History

The museum opened on 15 August 2009, 60 years after the invention of currywurst in 1949 by Berliner Herta Heuwer.^[4] Museum founder, Martin Löwer came up with the idea for the museum during a holiday trip to Jamaica. There he visited an exhibition about the yam root and started thinking about what food type would be as popular in Berlin.^[5] Löwer considered the currywurst to possess "cult status" in Germany and used the sausage's fame as justification to create the museum.^[6]

Exhibit

Patrons followed a "sauce trail" through the history of currywurst.^[4] The museum was interactive, with exhibits and displays aimed at engaging the senses of sight, smell, and sound.^[1] Highlights included a spice chamber with sniffing stations, a sausage-shaped sofa, audio stations playing currywurst-themed songs, and a virtual currywurst making game called "Curry Up!" The museum also had special installations at children's eye-level.^[1]