WOK – World of Kitchen

Current exhibitions

About the museum

The idea for the kitchen museum came from Hannover restaurateur and caterer Carl-Werner Möller-Hof zum Berge. Over three decades of running restaurants and delicatessens and handling thousands of catering events, he had built up a large collection of kitchen utensils, tableware and decorations. After visiting the Chocolate Museum in Cologne, he decided in 2007 to turn it into a museum with an attached teaching kitchen.

In December 2009 a nonprofit association was founded to run it, with the aim of teaching children and young people about food culture and nutrition. On April 15, 2010 the museum opened in a former operations building of the large-scale Fehling printing works in the List district. Since then, themed kitchen rooms have been set up step by step across around 1,400 square meters, from a medieval kitchen to the Frankfurt Kitchen and postwar fitted kitchens, along with kitchens from many countries and fairy-tale worlds.

Alongside the permanent exhibition there are changing special exhibitions, a cookbook library and a teaching kitchen, where well over a thousand school cooking classes have been held since the opening. In 2013 the association received a Lower Saxony award for this work. Income from guided tours, cooking classes and the museum café helps fund the educational program.

Highlights

• More than 50 furnished kitchens from the Middle Ages to the 1980s
• Frankfurt Kitchen from 1927 and an East German (GDR) kitchen
• Kitchens from around the world, from a Russian dacha to a Moroccan spice bazaar
• Cookbook library with around 10,000 volumes
• House of Miniatures with dollhouse kitchens

Permanent exhibitions

• Küchen vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit – Themed kitchen rooms ranging from a medieval kitchen through upper-class and working-class kitchens to the Frankfurt Kitchen and fitted kitchens of the postwar decades.
• Küchen der Länder, Mythen und Märchen – Kitchens from Europe, North Africa, the Americas and Japan as well as fairy-tale and children's book kitchens, complemented by the House of Miniatures and an AEG exhibition.

Founded

2010

Operated by

WOK – World of Kitchen Museum e. V.

Admission & discounts

Admission only as a guided tour (premium tour from €15.90). Combination packages with breakfast, lunch buffet, cake or evening buffet at the Schlosscafé cost about €25 to €103 per person depending on the package. Groups of up to four pay cash at the ticket desk; groups of five or more and café bookings must prepay by invoice 14 days before the visit.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

According to the museum, the entire kitchen museum is accessible.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Kids’ birthday parties

Children's birthday parties with a tour plus baking or cooking; school baking and cooking classes for children aged 5 and up in the teaching kitchen. Fairy-tale kitchens such as Widow Bolte's, and during Advent the House of Santa Claus.

Getting there & parking

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Restaurant: not available
• Museum shop

Museum restaurant "Schlosscafé" (Tue–Sat 10:00–19:00, reservation required) with breakfast, lunch buffet, cake and evening buffets for groups; museum shop.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Corporate events
• Weddings / ceremonies

By arrangement, the Schlosscafé hosts birthdays, Christmas and company parties, anniversaries, engagements and weddings, and from 19:00 also private evening events; cooking classes for groups of 10 or more are also held in the teaching kitchen.

Plan your visit