Description
The quiet little municipality of Wiernsheim in the state of Baden-Württemberg has a very unusual museum: one that focuses on coffee grinders. The Museum for Coffee Grinders presents more than 1,000 examples from all over the world on three floors. Its oldest coffee mill dates back some 300 years, and the weirdest is probably the one that looks like a grotesque satanic face. Visitors will discover not only grinders designed to look like cabinets and models featuring decorative corner pillars, but also grinders presented as bridal gifts, travel grinders and specially made one-offs.
Stations of this Audioguide
- 1
- Foyer, Welcome
- 2
- Foyer Rolf Scheuermann
- 3
- Room 1, 1st Floor: Coffee Grinders and Technology
- 4
- Room 1, 1st Floor: The Oldest Coffee Grinders
- 5
- Room 1, 1st Floor: Coffee Roaster
- 6
- Room 1: Industrial Grinde
- 7
- Room 2: Master Grinders, Biedermeier Period
- 8
- Room 3: Mass-Produced Grinders, Mid- to Late 19th Century
- 9
- Room 4: Factory-Made Coffee-Grinders
- 10
- Room 5: Special One-Off Grinders
- 11
- Room 6: Wartime Coffee Mills
- 12
- Room 7: Wall-Mounted Coffee Grinders
- 13
- Room 7: Wall-Mounted Coffee-Grinder and Coffee Substitute
- 14
- Room 8: Grinders with Religious Designs
- 15
- Room 8: Curiosities
- 16
- Room 8: Porcelain and Bridal Coffee-Grinders
- 17
- Room 9: 20th Century
- 18
- Room 9: Grinding Mechanisms
- 19
- Room 10: Wedding Venue
- 20
- Café; Ground Floor