The Potato Museum is an educational organization dedicated to exploring the potato’s fascinating past, controversial present and promising future. The Potato Museum, started in 1975 in Brussels, Belgium, is the world’s first museum about the potato and features the planet’s largest collection about this valuable vegetable. It also may well be the first museum to be online, especially about food.
The museum was based in Washington, D.C., for several years and open by appointment only. In the early 1990s The Potato Museum’s collections were involved in two major national exhibitions, one at Ottawa’s National Museum of Science and Technology, the other at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The museum moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1993. Hughes and his wife, Meredith Hughes, started a spinoff website, the Food Museum, in 1996.
The museum’s collections include Ancient specimens and pottery depicting potatoes; Farm tools; Modern potato-derived products; Curiosities made from potatoes.
The collection has been featured in major exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History (“Seeds of Change” 1991-2), Canada’s National Museum of Science and Industry (“The Amazing Potato” 1992-93) and the U.S. Botanic Garden (“Spuds Unearthed” 2010).
According to en.wikipedia.org; potatomuseum.com. Source of photos: internet
