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The Museum of Taste exemplifies the integration of modern museums within contemporary settings,
operating under the auspices of the Maribor Regional Museum.
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.
Tastes appear in color systems as bipolar concepts, polarized into opposites, such as: bitter-sweet, sour-salty, umami-kokumi. Sweet taste is associated with the color orange, cyan blue is associated with salty, green with sour, and magenta red with bitter. In addition, green shades are associated with growth, yellow, orange and light red are associated with activity, dark red, magenta and purple with decline, while passivity is marked by blue shades.
dr. hc Vojko Pogačar, academic painter
First, we chose the instruments: for the "salty" guitar (Astrid Kukovič), for the "bitter" piano (Sašo Vollmaier), for the "sour" harmonica (Dominik Cvitanič), for the "burning" violin (Andreja Klinc) and for the "sweet" flute (Asia Grauf). Melodies were created spontaneously. "Bitter" improvisations are low and legato, "salty" more decisive, articulate, "sour" high and dissonant, while "sweet" ones are unison, slow and soft.
Asja Grauf, professor of flute
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.
An important mission of modern museums is to connect the past with the present, implement new approaches for the cultivation of new generations and work in favor of culture and society in general. We invite you to read the personal stories of people who have contributed their objects to the Museum of Taste, and at the same time let this be an invitation to participate in the project yourself.
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