Sugar Museum, Museum dedicated to sugar production history in Wedding, Berlin, Germany.
The Sugar Museum opened on 8 May 1904 on the upper floor of the Institute for Sugar Industry building at Amrumer Straße 32 in Wedding, with 450 square metres of floor space. Its seven themed sections covered sugarcane biology, colonial sugar, the slave trade, beet sugar in Prussia, production, a world without sugar, and alcohol. It closed there in November 2012 and its presentation continues since November 2015 in the German Museum of Technology's permanent exhibition "Alles Zucker!"
Established in 1904, the museum documented Berlin's pioneering role in beet sugar development, particularly Andreas Sigismund Marggraf's 1747 discovery and Franz Carl Achard's first commercial production in 1801.
The museum illustrated sugar's profound impact on European society, displaying artifacts showing how sugar transformed from luxury commodity to everyday necessity, influencing art, cuisine, and social customs.
After closing in 2012, the collection was integrated into the German Museum of Technology at Trebbiner Straße 9, where visitors can explore modernized sugar exhibits within broader technological displays.
The museum's 1903 painting by Clara Elisabeth Fischer, commissioned by E.O. von Lippmann, shows a fictional scene of Franz Carl Achard presenting beet sugar to King Frederick William III as a sugarloaf; in fact, Achard sent the sugar to the king.
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