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Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate (Musee du Cacao et du Chocolat)

9 / 11 Rue de la Tete d'Or, Brussels 1000, Belgium
0032 (0) 514 20 48
Ranked #110 of 161 attractions in Brussels
2.5 of 5 stars 27 Reviews
Type: Speciality Museums
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London
2 reviews
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 May 2012

This museum essentially exists to rip off tourists: spend the 5 euro on seeing some of Brussels excellent art museums. More

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London, United Kingdom
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 May 2012
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I was quite unimpressed with this. We had just arrived and went in thinking it would be great. The smell was delicious but fooled us. The self guided bit by reading info was good but then they take you into a room where the chocolatier explains things. He spoke in French the whole time and only a couple sentences in... More

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2 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 February 2012
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it cost so much and for nothing.it takes about 5-10 mins to walkthough the muesum.the end is a little better but i didn't see anything,this guy was showing and saying in.terestin.g things.he doesn't talk english so i just stormed out of the.p.s he speaks french.i give it a 3 out of 10 More

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Mons
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed 15 February 2012

The guy actually making/working chocolates is cool; the rest, just Wikipedia chocolate or somethign. More

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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 12 February 2012

I thought as a food lover that this would be neat, like maybe you would sample several different types of chocolate and walk through a factory type environment but it's literally a tiny two-story museum about how chocolate is grown and harvested and then this old man shows you very very briefly how he makes chocolate molds. It's really not... More

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Sydney, Australia
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 1 February 2012

It was small but I would recommend going and seeing the demonstration, tasting the samples and seeing the history of chocolate in the museum. More

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Brussels, Belgium
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 January 2012

Congo colonies brought a real chocolate culture and expertise to Belgium,specific and sooooo good! More

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2 of 5 stars Reviewed 3 January 2012

Like a few others have mentioned, this museum is quite a waste of time and money (5 Euros/per person). The displays/exhibits seemed antiquated and haphazardly thrown together. The praline demonstration was conducted in both French and English, but none of us were impressed with what we witnessed. The only positive is that you have the ability to sample different kinds... More

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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 August 2011
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Walk past this tiny museum near the cities main square and you could miss it. There isn't much to do here, and it's not very big, but spread out across three floors it's a lovely little introduction to one of the things Belgium is famous for! A mixture of museum and exhibition; there is a history of both the cocoa... More

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Banstead, United Kingdom
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 August 2011
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After being sent upstairs to the (very poor) museum to await our chocolate experience, we began to think this might not be all we hoped. And how right we were. When we went back downstairs at the designated time we were offered a chocolate and shown to the kitchen where it was 'demonstrated' how to make a praline. The demonstration... More

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