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When most people think of museums or art they naturally think of sculptures.

Think again…

This is a Potato Museum

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.

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.

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.

1.Geschichte: From the Inca gold to the people, food

2.Blüten, plants, bulbs3.Anbau and harvest4. Market scenes

5. Multi-talented potato: whether jelly or adhesive tape, the potato is always there

6. Rarities collection7. Prince food and poor people's food8. Gallery of Modern

Germany has a rich culture

Traditionally known as "the country of poets and philosophers“

Germany has over 5,000 art and exhibit houses!

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

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 KnabeIf audio does not play

click here. Then Click Der Betende Knabe

http://www.cometogermany.com/ENU/culture_and_events/art_music_culture.htm

http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=3

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