Do you know the origins of chocolate? And what you can make from marzipan? This museum will show you a lot of sweets, a chocolate fountain and a fairy-tale cellar. The Museum of Chocolate will please sweet-toothed palates, inspire skilful confectioners and children will not believe their eyes.

Within the premises of three houses and on more than 1,000 m2, you will get to know where chocolate came from, how cocoa beans are grown and how they are processed later to become candies, bars, pralines and figures. Look also at historical wrappings and posters and porcelain sets used to drink chocolate in 19th century. The second part of the museum focuses on marzipan and ways to process it. You will see a model of the town and other Tábor landmarks made of marzipan, fairy-tale marzipan models and clothes for dolls. Films about chocolate are screened in the local cinema and you can watch expert confectioners through a small window right in the chocolateria where chocolate flows in a fountain.

Children will enjoy fun in fairy-tale cellar and each playful hand is welcome in a permanent workshop where you can cast your own chocolate figures or work with marzipan. And there is also a shop with special souvenirs.

In the museum, which is located in the premises of three historic houses and now also in the building of the old granary, you will find more than 100 exhibits of chocolate and marzipan on an area of 1300 m². The exhibition maps the history of chocolate, its cultivation, importation to Europe and subsequent processing into candies, bars, pralines or figurines.

Here you will find the largest chocolate train in the Czech Republic, the largest chocolate car. The chocolate statue of Jaromír Jágr or the last masterpiece of our confectioners, the chocolate dress.

The second part of the museum is dedicated to marzipan and the possibilities of its processing.

You will see a marzipan model of the square and other Tábor landmarks, marzipan models of fairy tales, dresses for dolls...

Creative workshops are available for all playful hands, where you can cast chocolate pralines yourself or work with marzipan.

Films about chocolate are also part of the exhibition. Through the window directly from our Chocolaterie, you can watch master confectioners at work. There is also an outdoor cafe for relaxation.

Opening time

January–June and September–December

Monday–Sunday 9.00–17.00

July–August

Monday–Sunday 9.00–19.00

Tickets

Contact

Kotnovská 138, Tábor 390 01

+420 381 211 784

recepce@cokomuzeum.cz

www.cokomuzeum.cz