Flour is art. FlourWorld Museum opens a new chapter
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2023 June |
| Languages | |
| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Arts, culture and heritage > Archives, libraries & museums |
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| Scope & content | The “Flour.Power.Life” exhibit concept at the FlourWorld Museum revolves around the importance of flour as a staple food in the history of humanity. The FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg illuminates a further chapter in human history, opening a new room dedicated to the Industrial Revolution. An epoch that allowed the world population to grow, while at the same time creating new technical solutions to provide for it. The modern industrial milling presentation was conceived and designed by museum curator Dr. Oliver Seifert, in cooperation with Bühler Group, a world-leading Swiss technology leader in grain processing, and Mühlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG. An audiovisual installation and working models of an optical sorter, roller mill and plansifter show interested visitors the individual steps in the industrial production of flour, the worldwide staple food. The “Flour.Power.Life” exhibit concept at the FlourWorld Museum revolves around the importance of flour as a staple food in the history of humanity. This history reaches from the first cultivation of grain 10,000 years ago during the neolithic revolution, when humans became sedentary, until today. The new “Milling Room” addresses the other major revolution in human history – the industrial revolution of the 19th century. It changed the world even more radically than the neolithic revolution of 10,000 years ago. What is remarkable is that both revolutions were intimately associated with grain…Read more. |
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