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The Alimentarium now prepares tasty takeaways!
Our team of chefs is pleased to prepare a selection of tempting takeaways! As for those little cravings, our Café offers a range of delicious takeaway snacks, hot drinks and homemade cakes.
We have more good news for you too! Our Shop is also reopening, stocked with a stash of unusual homeware that makes great Christmas gifts!
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Temporary closure
Following directives from the Canton of Vaud, our Museum is closed until 30 November.
In the meantime, the Alimentarium experience continues online. Discover our plethora of information and activities for all ages to do at home. Bring the Museum into your home!
We look forward to seeing you soon. Until then, take care!
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Our “Tell me” podcasts answer children’s questions.
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Temporary closure
The Alimentarium is reopening on 1 December!
We are thrilled to be able to open our exhibition again and look forward to welcoming you from 10:00 on Tuesday 1 December!

Our Restaurant and Café will resume their usual service from 10 December 2020. In the meantime, why not try our takeaway menu?

As for our Shop, it’s already open! Come and browse our selection of quirky Christmas gifts that will go down a treat!
The food we love to hate
It’s all about food we abhor. To help us understand this emotion, we need your input! We would like to collect your stories.
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Magazine

Feed your curiosity

Our Magazine is jam-packed with food-related articles and videos. Science, history, society, nutrition...

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Nasty or nice?
04.05.2020
Olivier Mottaz
Where do you draw the line regarding what you eat?
10 min.
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Summer
16.08.2018
Garden Stories

The vegetables in our Garden have germinated, grown and ripened. Watch as we harvest some of them, make a ratatouille following the recipe handed down by our grandmothers, and a jar of pickled vegetables that will keep for months… for a taste of summer sunshine all year round!

6 min. 48
Hu Fang’s garden
20.01.2015
Hannes Grassegger
Hu Fang, star of the Chinese art world, is cultivating a small field of vegetables in the middle of the gigantic industrial sprawl of the Pearl River Delta. Here, where China’s capitalist experiment began, he wants to achieve a new understanding of the land from the ground up. The fruits of his garden are visions of the future of Chinese society – ways of escaping predatory capitalism and the increasing contamination of the soil.
15 min.
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Academy
Academy
Learn while having fun

Designed for teachers, pupils and their parents, our academy is at your service! The Alimentarium Academy feeds curious minds with a unique way of learning: teaching aids, serious games, and videos presented by experts for you to discover every aspect of food and nutrition!

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Digestix
Put the organs in the right place so that food can be digested, and win as many points as you can.
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Knowledge
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Eggs and cholesterol
Eggs were long considered as perfect food, particularly for the quality of their protein. However, they declined in popularity in the 1980s when it was discovered that...
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