Disgusting Food Museum Malmö
Food is so much more than sustenance. Curious foods from exotic cultures have always fascinated us. Unfamiliar foods can be delicious, or they can be more of an acquired taste. While cultural differences often separate us and create boundaries, food can also connect us. Sharing a meal is the best way to turn strangers into friends.
The evolutionary function of disgust is to help us avoid disease and unsafe food. Disgust is one of the six fundamental human emotions. While the emotion is universal, the foods that we find disgusting are not. What is delicious to one person can be revolting to another. Disgusting Food Museum invites visitors to explore the world of food and challenge their notions of what is and what isn’t edible. Could changing our ideas of disgust help us embrace the environmentally sustainable foods of the future?
The exhibit has 80 of the world’s most disgusting foods. Adventurous visitors will appreciate the opportunity to smell and taste some of these notorious foods. Do you dare smell the world’s stinkiest cheese? Or taste sweets made with metal cleansing chemicals?
- Surströmming – fermented herring from Sweden.
- Cuy – roasted guinea pigs from Peru.
- Casu marzu – maggot-infested cheese from Sardinia
- Stinky tofu – pungent bean curd from China.
- Hákarl – well-aged shark from Iceland.
- Durian – infamously stinky fruit from Thailand.
Temporary dangerous food exhibit
Humans have always been inventive when it comes to food, finding creative ways to make poisonous and deadly food edible. We eat seeds that contain cyanide and animals with toxic organs. Most of the dangerous dishes began as a way to survive in tough times, becoming delicacies over time. Around half of the exhibited items in this sub-exhibit are naturally deadly or hazardous to eat, unless prepared in the right way. The naturally dangerous foods pale in comparison with food sold by greedy or negligent companies that cause death, sickness, and suffering.
Malmö, Sweden
Södra Förstadsgatan 2.
Hours
Regular hours
Monday-Sunday: 11:00-18:00
Last recommended entrance 17:00
Closed dates every year:
December 24
Prices
Adult: 230 kr
Student/Senior: 185kr
Children 6-15 years old: 80kr (only with guardians)
Children under 6 years old: two children enter for free per parent/guardian.
How to get there
Take a train to Malmö Triangeln, follow Rådmansgatan that then becomes Södra Förstadsgatan. We are located just at the intersection to Drottninggatan.
Do you visit us by car? Park in Parkeringshuset Anna.
Disgusting Food Museum is located 10 minutes walk from Malmö Triangeln and 13 minutes walk from Malmö Central station. There is plentiful parking in the area. We are just across the bridge from Copenhagen, and yes, Danes are also welcome.
Once is enough but a good experience! It’s just a bar where you can try certain foods, not sure what I was expecting but not quite that. Throughly enjoyable though and the girls working there were all lovely. My kid is 10 and had a great time completing all the challenges! 
A very unusual experience Visited this museum with some locals that hadn't been to this museum before, and this was a different experience than the normal museums and exhibits I have been to. The name doesn't lie, in this compact area they have filled it with disgusting food replicas and information, as well as categorization of the food from all over the world. There were also smells for some of the food items, and even taste samples for some of them (of course when you visit Sweden, you HAVE to try the surströmming)! The staff is very helpful and knowledgeable, and with an affordable price (around 250 SEK per person at the time of writing) and central location, it is well worth a visit. Combine it with a lunch at one of the nearby cafes or restaurants, and it will take a good portion of your sightseeing day. For the museum itself, set of about 1 - 1,5 hours to get the full experience. We visited in April (during Easter), maybe not peak tourist season, but it was still a good number of people there, but not crowded, so we could read all the different information pieces without time pressure. This may not be suitable if you have a sensitive stomach, but toilet facilities and barf bags are easy at hand. Taste tests and smell tests are optional. 
Super fun ! The staff was very fun and friendly. Very great experience 
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Current
Disgusting Food Museum Malmö
Open since 2018
Past
Disgusting Food Museum Palma de Mallorca
Open Jul 4 2025 to September 30, 2025
Disgusting Food Museum Taipei
Open May 20, 205 to October 1, 2025
Disgusting Food Museum Bordeaux
Located in Cap Sciences, open June 12, 2021, January 2, 2022.
Disgusting Food Museum Nantes
6-week exhibit during fall of 2019
Disgusting Food Museum Los Angeles
3-month exhibit during the winter of 2018/2019
Andreas Ahrens
Museum Director & Co-founder
Most disgusting food consumed: Baby mouse wine from China. It tastes like a combination of rotten flesh and gasoline.
Dr. Samuel West
Co-founder
Most disgusting food eaten: duck fetus cooked in its egg from The Philippines.
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