Chocolate Nation
Privately funded chocolate museum with fourteen themed rooms, live demonstrations and tastings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Chocolate Nation, opposite Antwerp Central Station, follows the money behind a museum built without a cent of public subsidy, and the private backers who opened it in March twenty nineteen. It traces the cocoa trade from plantations near the equator to the warehouses of Antwerp's port, and asks what it means for a museum to sell both a story and the product. Best heard on the square outside, with the station at your back.
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