Museum of Taste

The Museum of Taste exemplifies the integration of modern museums within contemporary settings,
operating under the auspices of the Maribor Regional Museum.

Taste

Taste is the bearer of many precious memories, so the Museum of Taste encourages us to consider the extent to which personal items associate us with something sweet, bitter, sour, salty or hot in our everyday life or in our past.

Colors

Tastes appear in color systems as bipolar concepts, divided into opposites such as bitter-sweet, sour-salty and umami-kokumi. We associate sweet taste with the color orange, cyan blue with salty taste, green with sour, and magenta red with bitter. Shades of green are usually associated with growth, while yellow, orange and bright red indicate activity. On the other hand, dark red, magenta and purple symbolize slowing down, while passivity is expressed by various shades of blue.

 

dr. hc Vojko Pogačar, academic painter

Music

First, we chose musical instruments that illustrate different tastes: for the "salty" guitar (Astrid Kukovič), for the "bitter" piano (Sašo Vollmaier), for the "sour" harmonica (Dominik Cvitanič), for the "hot" violin (Andreja Klinc) and for the "sweet" flute (Asja Grauf).

 

Melodies were created spontaneously. The improvisations of the "bitter" melodies were low and legato, the "salty" were determined and articulate, the "sour" were high and dissonant, and the "sweet" were unison, slow and soft.

 

Asja Grauf, professor of flute

Gero Angleitner
Kitchen Grinder
Nik Hvalec
Nintendo Gaming Console
Mirjana Koren
Poticnik
Dejan Stampar
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These are just a few of the objects we've added to the Museum of Taste. You can join us or 

We invite you to call upon the muses at the Museum of Taste by thinking about the flavors in your life—at and away from the table. Remember the moments you associate with a particular taste.

It moves

Dancers dance, we feel, we express a whole range of tastes, and the audience leaves the theater with the sweet "sweetness" of what they saw, with the "bitter" taste at the end of a story, or with the feeling of "burning" in their souls.

ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF TASTE

An important task of modern museums is to connect the past with the present, to introduce innovative approaches for the education of new generations and to contribute to cultural and social development.

 

Read the personal stories of the individuals who contributed their items to the Museum of Taste.

 

At the same time, we invite you to join this project yourself and participate with your contributions.