Description of the attraction
The Chocolate Museum is located two blocks from Plaza de Armas in Cusco. This place is both a museum of chocolate and a cafe, where Peruvians and tourists not only get acquainted with the history of chocolate from Mayan times to the present day, but can make chocolate with their own hands by taking part in a master class.
Every day, 70 to 200 people visit the Chocolate Museum in Cusco. The owners of this attraction are the French Alain Schneider and Clara Isabel Diaz. In July 2010, Alain and Clara opened their first chocolate museum at a hotel in Granada, Nicaragua, where they have been involved in a social project for several months. After consulting some chocolate experts, they decided to come to Cusco - where the cocoa (chocolate tree) grows.
This unusual museum has six rooms. There you can get acquainted with the history of chocolate, with the cultivation and processing of cocoa beans, there is a small hall for the smallest sweet tooth and the "mini-factory" for making chocolate itself, where visitors are taught how to make chocolate with their own hands. This workshop, which lasts all day from making cocoa paste to making candy, is seen by visitors as a fun and sweet way to unwind.
There is also a room inside the museum that functions as a café, but most of the café's menu has a "chocolate" prefix, such as chocolate tea, hot chocolate, chocolate candies, mocha and its signature dish, chocolate wine. You can also taste six types of chocolates, which have different fillings: almonds, raisins, nuts, peppers, coffee and salt.
In addition, the museum offers its visitors a guided tour of the valley - to the farms where cocoa beans are grown, harvested and processed. On such an excursion, tourists are told everything about cocoa, taught to plant seedlings, to determine the ripeness of cocoa beans, and offered to participate in the harvest.
