Meet the FlourWorld Museum

The FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg near Hamburg, Germany, has set itself the goal of creating a monument to flour in all its globe-spanning significance. After all, some 450 million tonnes of wheat are processed into food per year worldwide. 

In its 1000 square metres of space, the museum shows a cultural and historical collection of over 3500 flour sacks from 140 countries. “Ötzi,” a reproduction of the 5300-year-old man from the Alps, tells the millennia-old story of flour.

A mysterious room takes the visitor into the world of the gods and rites that ancient civilizations hoped would grant them good harvests. The piece de résistance is a two-thousand-year-old mummy filled with Nile silt and grain – an Egyptian symbol for the germinating force of life.