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: 11:00-17:00
Last recommended entrance 16:00
Summer hours (July 1 to August 11)
Monday-Sunday: 10:00-18:00
Last recommended entrance 17:00
Closed dates every year:
January 1, December 23-25, and December 31
Prices
Adult: 220 kr
Student/Senior: 175kr
Children 6-15 years old: 75kr (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.
Fun hour tasting and learning about disgusting foods. Such a unique experience, the staff is excellent. The museum is informative and quite fun. The descriptions and information is in English and Swedish. We had a lot of laughs, gross smells, tastes worms and delicacies from other countries. Some very interesting tastes. It was a fun hour but you could easily spend more time. 
Fun and informative Was a bit reluctant to go but my son (22) was very keen...and it was raining so in we went. It was a fascinating (and disgusting) display of foods from around the world. The tasting at the end was a good laugh...and not for the feint hearted! But no pressure from the staff, who were brilliant and well informed. 
Best thing to try for adrenaline freaks! The Disgusting Food Museum was the main reason I decided to visit Malmö, and I have no regrets. It’s a wonderful place for people seeking adrenaline and fun, who aren't afraid to challenge themselves. First, visitors are introduced to the experience by the friendly staff, who provide a small bag at the entrance. Later, visitors are treated to a fascinating exhibition of the world’s most disgusting dishes, along with descriptions and historical context. After the exhibition, visitors can try some of the items, with the cheerful and lively staff guiding you through the tasting process and explaining what you're eating. Surprisingly, I even liked some of the tasting items. The staff speak about the dishes with great passion and enthusiasm, and for that, I thank them. After the tasting, if you've managed to try all the disgusting dishes, you can test your luck by spinning a wheel to win various prizes. And don’t worry about throwing up; there’s a prize for that too! But what I liked most was that the museum takes a stand against animal cruelty and even shows videos on screens, some for example depicting the process of force-feeding birds for foie gras production. It’s a great opportunity for people to open their eyes and see how cruel industrial production of animal products can be. 
Disgusting Food Museum
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Phone: +46 (0)40 10 17 71
Most disgusting foods
After running the Disgusting Food Museum since 2018, we have developed a strong sense of what is disgusting and delicious. With 20 000 visitors per year to the Malmö museum, that means a lot of interactions with visitors and getting their take on what is disgusting. In the tasting bar our visitors can try out about 20 items for themselves, we have seen reactions ranging from delight to outright vomiting.
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Past
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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