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FlourWorld Museum – An initiative of Mühlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG / Florian
Köfler
The Swiss School of Milling in St Gallen trains millers and university graduates for posts as technology-oriented managers in the cereal-processing industry. Mühlenchemie and the directors of the technical college invited the budding milling technicians to take part in a specialist conference at the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg.
The supporting programme of the lectures gave students from Europe, Africa, Asia and America an opportunity to explore the worldwide history and culture of cereals and learn more about their importance for the history of man.
In the “Sackotheque”, the world’s biggest collection of artistically designed flour sacks, some of the students were surprised to find exhibits from the mills where they themselves learned the trade. For many years, Mühlenchemie has been conducting research directed towards optimising and standardising flour products.
Flour. Power. Life
When Mühlenchemie’s founder, Volkmar Wywiol, was walking on the beach in Dubai early one morning in 1998, he stumbled over the foundation stone of his Gallery of Flour Sacks. The tide had washed up a sack from his customer Emigrain. It was to become the first of a collection of over 3,600 exhibits from 140 countries around the globe.
The background was his interest in regional differences within the worldwide milling industry and the significance attributed to flour to this day in all the corners of the earth. The motifs on the sacks tell of the picturesque traditions, local production methods and popular myths that have grown up around a food vital to man’s existence.
In 2008, Wywiol’s informal collection was opened to the public as the “Sackotheque” at the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg. The historic District Court building of the town of Wittenburg, that was used by the local primary school until 2004 and opened its doors as a museum in 2008, now houses a permanent exhibition on the cultural history of flour with the title “Flour. Power. Life”.
It is no mere coincidence that the modern museum is situated at the production site of SternMaid, the manufacturing unit of the flour improvement specialist from Hamburg, with international operations: attached to the museum and designed as a “forum for cereal science” is a conference centre with seminar and event rooms flooded with daylight. For its partners and customers, Mühlenchemie has created an attractive environment in which the transfer of knowledge and cultural exchange go hand in hand.
Read more HERE.
The Swiss School of Milling in St Gallen trains millers and university graduates for posts as technology-oriented managers in the cereal-processing industry. Mühlenchemie and the directors of the technical college invited the budding milling technicians to take part in a specialist conference at the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg.
The supporting programme of the lectures gave students from Europe, Africa, Asia and America an opportunity to explore the worldwide history and culture of cereals and learn more about their importance for the history of man.
In the “Sackotheque”, the world’s biggest collection of artistically designed flour sacks, some of the students were surprised to find exhibits from the mills where they themselves learned the trade. For many years, Mühlenchemie has been conducting research directed towards optimising and standardising flour products.
Flour. Power. Life
When Mühlenchemie’s founder, Volkmar Wywiol, was walking on the beach in Dubai early one morning in 1998, he stumbled over the foundation stone of his Gallery of Flour Sacks. The tide had washed up a sack from his customer Emigrain. It was to become the first of a collection of over 3,600 exhibits from 140 countries around the globe.
The background was his interest in regional differences within the worldwide milling industry and the significance attributed to flour to this day in all the corners of the earth. The motifs on the sacks tell of the picturesque traditions, local production methods and popular myths that have grown up around a food vital to man’s existence.
In 2008, Wywiol’s informal collection was opened to the public as the “Sackotheque” at the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg. The historic District Court building of the town of Wittenburg, that was used by the local primary school until 2004 and opened its doors as a museum in 2008, now houses a permanent exhibition on the cultural history of flour with the title “Flour. Power. Life”.
It is no mere coincidence that the modern museum is situated at the production site of SternMaid, the manufacturing unit of the flour improvement specialist from Hamburg, with international operations: attached to the museum and designed as a “forum for cereal science” is a conference centre with seminar and event rooms flooded with daylight. For its partners and customers, Mühlenchemie has created an attractive environment in which the transfer of knowledge and cultural exchange go hand in hand.
Read more HERE.
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