Schokoladenmuseum Köln
Glass and aluminum museum shaped like a ship's bow, wrapped around a historic harbor customs house.
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This guide to the Schokoladenmuseum Koln unpacks how chocolate magnate Hans Imhoff built an entire museum on Cologne's harbor in just thirteen months, funding every beam and pane of glass out of his own pocket. It traces the collection's odd origin in 1972, when Imhoff bought the bankrupt Stollwerck factory and saved crates of scrap machinery and old wrapping paper the workers meant to throw away. His wife, Gerburg Klara Imhoff, later found the old Prussian customs house on the Rhine, the site the architects eventually wrapped in a glass bow shaped like a ship's hull.
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