For the Slavs, bread was the main product, and modern people consider the table without bread empty. For the first time, bread began to be baked back in the Stone Age. Not a single dish has such a long and interesting history. You can find out about recipes, types and methods of making various pastries in the bread museum.
13 museums of bread are officially registered in the world. They are in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, France, America, Tatarstan, Israel, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Russia.
Museum of bread in St. Petersburg
In the northern capital is the state bread museum. It was founded in 1988. More than 10 thousand exhibits are displayed at exhibition stands and halls.
The Bread Museum in St. Petersburg is located at Ligovsky Prospekt, 73
Visitors can see here not only dishes, equipment, advertising samples from different eras, but also other household utensils, documents, photographs and even the production line of the bakery of the 50s of the last century. In the hall "History of the origin and formation of bakery" a brief excursion into archeology and ethnography is presented. The exposition "The History of Bread in Pre-Petrine Russia" will also be interesting, where bread-making models of that era are presented: pies, gingerbread, rolls.
A separate room is dedicated to the history of bakery and bread trade in St. Petersburg. When a regular army was assembled in the city in the 18th century, several times more bread was required. Then industrial bakery appeared. The opening of bakeries was regulated by workshop legislation. The first to bake bread on an industrial scale in St. Petersburg were the Germans. At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of specialized industries opened. Some workshops specialized in bagels, others in cakes, and others in waffles. In the 19th century, there were about 3 thousand small shops in the city where only rye bread was sold. Regular customers of each of these shops were residents of the next three or four houses.
The bread museum also has a hall dedicated to the traditions of tea drinking. The guide will show dozens of samovars of different times, sizes and shapes. It will be interesting to look at packaging boxes for baking, which in the 19th century served not only as decoration, but as advertising. Many of these boxes are real works of art. If you wanted to see how the life of the townspeople was organized in the late 19th - early 20th century, you can see the dining room and kitchen of that era. Of particular interest are genuine objects of the time: muffin baking dishes, spatulas, metal and porcelain dishes. In one part of the museum, an old Russian oven was recreated, a linen towel was lying, there was a shovel for getting bread from the oven, the situation of a city bakery with real-size equipment was reconstructed in another, the department of the USSR-era store with scales, cash, and other equipment was presented in the third.
