Preservatives, artificial flavors, abherents and more – there are countless potential food additives in our everyday nutrition. You might feel (like me) that you do not have a sufficient level of knowledge about them and how they impact the way they eat. What about going to a museum and learn? Hamburg, Germany, hosts the Deutsches Zusatzstoffmuseum – the German Food Additives Museum. I felt that this must be a quite unique place – and just had to visit it.
Food Additives Museum – Location & Admission
The location of the German Food Additives Museum is right inside the central market. If you walk or use public transport, you can use a gate North of the museum, right next to the Nagelsweg bus stop (lines 3, 34, 640, 641 – there is a Shell gas station next to it). If you come by car or arrive on the weekend (when the central market is not operating), you can use the East vehicle access gate stating you want to visit the museum. There are quite a lot of parking lots, so that this should be convenient. I took a car sharing car to access the museum.
The museum is opening on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 to 17:00 hrs. The Thursday times are 14:00 to 20:00 hrs. The museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Adult admission is 3.60 Euro.
Food Additives Museum – The Visit
The Food Additives Museum is located in an office building. The major part of the museum is located in a comparably long room, but the museum also uses additional space for the exhibition. The large room especially hosts the three key exhibits (in my point of view): The unusual supermarket shelf shows you all the different additives which are allowed in the European market. The Supermarket full of Information shows you fruit and veggies and kept fresh or how you could easily create a perfume which smells like salami. You also learn a lot about the rules how additives have to (or don’t have to) be declared, according to European law.
My favorite, however, is the cashier of additives: Like in a children’s grocery toy store, you can grab different items (represented by small blocks and a bar code and scan them at the cashier. Instead of a receipt to pay, you receive a list of which food additives you just would have purchased with that shopping cart.
In one of the smaller rooms, there is a very interesting exhibition, how nutrition is changing. The museum illustrates how food is more and more becoming a functional additive and part of our lifestyle. As the whole museum, the exhibition space is rather compact, but it is really well presented. Outside these rooms, in the walkway, there is a nice timeline of how nutrition changed over time. There are also some minor exhibits and a documentation movie you can watch.
Food Additives Museum – My View
A museum about food additives? Can that be attractive? That’s already about what the critics said when this place has been founded in 2008 – and the museum is still active. Thus, this is best proof: yes, it is! The key success factor is of course the creativity of the organizers, who display this topic in a very transparent and interactive way. Even with kids, you can think about a visit to the central market. Unfortunately, the access to the museum is a bit of tricky – but it is worth the effort.
Flyctory.com on Eating & Drinking
Flyctory.com is not a culinary blog. Nevertheless, here are all posts dealing with Eating and Drinking:

Old Town San Diego (Pictured Stories)

Team D Fan Zone at the Paris Olympic Games 2024

Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas (Pictured Story)

George’s Street Arcade (Dublin, Pictured Story)

Hyde Park Winter Wonderland

Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

Dining at Pokemon Cafe Tokyo

Schnoor – Bremen’s Oldest Borough (Pictured Story)

The (Vending) Machines of Tokyo (Pictured Story)

Owl Cafe “Akiba Fukurou” Tokyo

Helsinki Old Market Hall (Pictured Story)

The Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth (Pictured Story)

Hamburg Coffee Museum Burg


Skyrland Selfoss


Pasteis de Belem – Home of the Famous Pastry (Pictured Story)


Husavik Eurovision Exhibition


Traveling on Iceland’s Ring Road (Day 8 – 6th May 2023) – Day in Reykjavik & More


Big Mac Museum (North Huntingdon PA, Pictured Story)


Five Years of Flyctory.com – My 20 Most Popular Travel Posts (so far…)


Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (Orlando, Pictured Story)


Puttshack White City (London)



Bitburger Brewery World


Al Majaz Park & Waterfront Sharjah (Pictured Story)


Leadenhall Market in London (Pictured Story)


Reykjavik Maritime Museum


Cyprus Meze – A Culinary Travel through the Island’s Cuisine


Wizard Afternoon Tea at Wizards Exploratorium (London)


Carlo’s Bakery Hoboken NJ – The Heart of a Cake Empire (Pictured Story)


Swingers London West End / Big Wheel Course


Food I Had Onboard IV (May 2022 til August 2022)


The Raeren Carrot Museum – Belgium’s Smallest Museum


New Bedford Whaling Museum



Spicy’s Spices Museum (Gewürzmuseum) Hamburg


Exploring the City Center of Woodstock, NY (Pictured Story)


The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) – A Sweet and Savory Tradition



Pig Museum (SchweineMusuem) Stuttgart


Zotter Chocolate World & Edible Animal Park (Riegersburg, Austria)



Home of Ritter Sport – Art Museum & Chocolate


A Walk Through Greetsiel in East Frisia (Pictured Story)


Last Exit Al Khawaneej (Dubai)


Food I Had Onboard III (Mar 2022 til April 2022)


Driving Up Jebel Jais Mountain


The Paradise of Calories – Chocolate and Candy Outlets in Aachen


Food I Had Onboard II (Nov 21 til Mar 2022)



Brewery Museum (Brauerei-Museum) Dortmund


Souk Madinat Jumeirah Dubai (Pictured Story)



East Frisia Tea Museum (Norden)


Ottawa ByWard Market (Pictured Story)


High Tea at At.mosphere Burj Khalifa Dubai


Christmas Market at Westfield Centro Oberhausen


Cereal Killer Cafe Dubai


Charles Dickens Christmas Market Heimbach


Food I Had Onboard (Oct 2021 til Nov 2021)


Olivia Star Observation Deck (Gdansk)


Parma Ham Museum



Disgusting Food Museum Berlin


Walking in the London Docklands (Pictured Story)


Robo Cafe Dubai



Papenburg Von-Velen-Anlage Open Air Museum


Stiegl-Brauwelt Salzburg – A Brewery Museum


Schloss Burg – a Gem in Bergisches Land


Al Seef – A Historic District at Dubai Creek


Heineken Experience Amsterdam


Dave & Buster’s – Sports, Eating & a Video Game Arcade


Views of London from One New Change (Pictured Story)


Coffee Museum Dubai


taku Dining Box in Cologne – Gourmet Food at Home



Chocoversum by Hachez Hamburg



Chocolate Museum Cologne (Schokoladenmuseum)


Gaststätte Grossmarkthalle – The Best Bavarian White Sausage in Munich


Voss Chocolate Hotel (Schokoladenhotel) Westerstede


High Tea at Euromast and Euroscoop (Rotterdam)


Vleminckx – The Best French Fries in Amsterdam?


Hangar 7 (Salzburg, Austria – Pictured Story)


St. Helier (Jersey) Markets (Pictured Story)


100 Years of Gold Bears and More – Haribo Shopping around Cologne


Planespotting at In-N-Out Burger Los Angeles Airport


Clarke Quay (Singpore) by Night (Pictured Story)


The Bourbon Room / Rock of Ages Hollywood


Tombo x Sanrio – Hello Kitty-branded meals in London


Hofbräuhaus Pittsburgh


Afternoon Tea with a View at Observation Deck at 300 in Abu Dhabi


ThEATre by Rhodes – U.A.E.-style Luxury Cinema


Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival



Historic Mustard Mill Cologne


Cologne Stadtgarten Christmas Market


Cologne Harbor Christmas Market at Chocolate Museum


An Ode to Singapore Hawker Center Culture


Twinings – The Oldest Tea Room in London


Finca Las Margaritas – Banana Experience on Tenerife


TWG – My Favorite Tea Brand


Beefeater Gin Distillery Tour (London)


Royal High Tea at the Emirates Palace


Last Exit and Mad X – Alternative Refueling


ICON Park Orlando – A new Entertainment District


Orlando – A very different McDonald’s Experience


Global Village Dubai – simply amazing!


Visiting the Home of the Curacao Liqueur Factory



It’s all about bread – Museum of Bread Culture Ulm


World of Coca Cola
German Museums
Here are all my postings about museums and exhibitions related to or located in Germany:


Monaco & Provence at Miniatur Wunderland


VW ZeitHaus Museum (Autostadt Wolfsburg)


Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart


German American Heritage Museum (Washington D.C.)


Futurium Berlin


SIKU / WIKING Modellwelt


Wernigerode Aviation Museum (Luftfahrtmuseum)


The Ruhr.Topcard – Exploring the Ruhrgebiet in Germany


Museum of the Everyday Culture (Museum der Alltagskultur, Waldenbuch)


German Pharmacy Museum Heidelberg


The FC St. Pauli Museum (Kiezbeben)



Hamburg Coffee Museum Burg


Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial


Nature Museum (Naturmuseum) Dortmund



Bitburger Brewery World


Frankfurt Airport (Fraport) Visitors’ Center


Panorama Pergamonmuseum Berlin


German Rail Museum (DB Museum) Nuremberg


Road Stop Motel Mettmann (Presidential Suite)


German Hunting and Fishing Museum Munich


Phänomenta Lüdenscheid


BMW Museum Munich


German Röntgen Museum Remscheid


Rickmer Rickmers Museum Ship Hamburg


Tawern Roman Temple District



Spicy’s Spices Museum (Gewürzmuseum) Hamburg


LWL Open Air Museum Hagen


Esterwegen Concentration Camp Memorial



Pig Museum (SchweineMusuem) Stuttgart


Berlin Computer Games Museum


Natural History and Mammoth Museum Siegsdorf


Deutsches Museum Traffic Center (Verkehrszentrum)



Home of Ritter Sport – Art Museum & Chocolate


Automobile & Toy Museum North Sea (Norden, Germany)


Erwin Hymer Museum


German Packaging Museum (Heidelberg)


Fassberg Airlift Museum


Gasometer Oberhausen


House of German History (Haus der Geschichte) Bonn



Brewery Museum (Brauerei-Museum) Dortmund


Visiodrom Wuppertal


Porsche Museum Stuttgart


Lokwelt Freilassing



East Frisia Tea Museum (Norden)


German Spy Museum Berlin


The Berlin Tränenpalast (“Palace of Tears”)


Expo 2020 Dubai – The Sustainability District Pavilions


Wilhelmshaven Aquarium


Auto & Traktor Museum Bodensee (Lake Constance)


Madame Tussauds Berlin


German Oil Museum Wietze


Little Big City Berlin


“Hanse Steinreich” Exhibition at the European Hansa Museum


European Hansa Museum Lübeck


The Myth of Germania – A Berlin Underground Exhibition



Disgusting Food Museum Berlin


Leeraner Miniaturland (Leer Model Land)


Bud Spencer Museum Berlin


Hamburg Panoptikum


DIE MAUER – asisi Panorama Berlin



Papenburg Von-Velen-Anlage Open Air Museum


ESO Supernova Munich – Garching


Resistance Museum Amsterdam


German Customs Museum Hamburg


Red Dot Design Museum Essen


Nuremberg Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds


German Movie Museum Frankfurt


Cap San Diego Museum Ship Hamburg


Meersburg Castle (Lake Constance)


Zeppelin Museum Zeppelinheim


Markus Wasmeier Open Air Museum


Munich Olympic Tower and Rockmuseum


rock’n’popmuseum Gronau


Munich White Rose / Weiße Rose Memorial Exhibition


Obersalzberg Documentation Center


Siku & Audi-Museum Höing (Stadtlohn, Germany)


Georg Breusing Rescue Cruiser Emden



Chocoversum by Hachez Hamburg


Museum Prototyp Hamburg


Visiting the Meyer Werft in Papenburg (Self-Guided Tour)


German Architecture Museum (Frankfurt)


Munich Toy Museum


Deutsches Museum Bonn



Chocolate Museum Cologne (Schokoladenmuseum)


Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen


Dat Otto Huus (Otto Waalkes Museum) Emden


German Central Bank Money Museum (Frankfurt)


Memorium Nuremberg Trials


Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial


Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg


Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen


Pfahlbauten (Lake Dwelling) Unteruhldingen, Lake Constance


Zeppelin Museum Meersburg


Arithmeum Bonn – A Museum about Calculations



Historic Mustard Mill Cologne


Stars Of The Galaxy – A Star Wars Shrine in Mönchengladbach


Andernach Geyser


Flugausstellung Peter Junior (Hermeskeil)


German Blade Museum Solingen


The Scherz-Tour – A Different RheinEnergieSTADION Cologne Tour


Bergisch Historic Trams Wuppertal


GDR Museum (DDR Museum) Berlin


Museum Plagiarius Solingen – The Place for Copies


Lindlar Open Air Museum


Alte Dombach Paper Mill


Speyer Technology Museum


Ratingen-Cromford Textile Factory


The Eau de Cologne Giants – 4711 vs. Farina


Deutsches Museum – Flugwerft Schleissheim


Munich State Museum of Egyptian Art


History of Gaming in Cologne’s City Museum



It’s all about bread – Museum of Bread Culture Ulm

