Choco-Story, Chocolate Museum
Chocolate history museum in a fifteenth-century house, from Maya ritual drink to industrial bar.
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This guide to Choco-Story in Bruges starts in an Amsterdam workshop in 1828, where the chemist Coenraad van Houten forces a hydraulic press onto ground cacao and changes chocolate from a bitter drink into something that could one day be poured, cooled and eaten solid. From there it moves into the house on Sint-Jansplein itself, built around 1480 as a wine tavern and later a bakery, furniture workshop and government office before it became a chocolate museum in 2004. The house has worn nearly as many identities as chocolate itself has, long before either settled into what stands here now.
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