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

Salty

Nada Holc
Cookbook "The Good Cook"

Sweet

Mojca Polak
Peugeot grinder

Sweet

Drago Oman
Mug

Sour

Dunja Salecl
Potato masher

Sweet

Danilo Rojko
Dough roller

Spicy

Irena Porekar Kacafura
Box

Bitter

Vesna Koprivnik
Two-Screw Intramedullary Nail...

Sour

Maja Knez
Clay jug for making sour milk

Sweet

Nives Cvikl
Mug

Sweet

Valentina Bevc Varl
Cup with saucer

Salty

Gero Angleitner
Salt cellar

Salty

Gero Angleitner
A mortar

Sour

Gero Angleitner
Mandolin slicer

Salty

Gero Angleitner
Kitchen grinder Titan Kamnik

Salty

Gero Angleitner
Peugeot grinder

Sweet

Gero Angleitner
Peugeot grinder

Sour

Janez Bogataj
Weck pot for boiling fruit and ...

Salty

Zinka Visočnik
Kneading bowl - nečke

Salty

Zinka Visočnik
Stand for kitchen utensils

Sweet

Zinka Visočnik
Spoon

Sour

Aleš Wenzel
Bottle opener

Spicy

Nik Hvalec
Nintendo gaming console

Sweet

Mirjana Koren
Poticnik

Bitter

Dejan Stampar
Advertisement for the drink Ora

Salty

Nada Holc
Cookbook "The Good Cook"

Sweet

Mojca Polak
Peugeot grinder

Sweet

Drago Oman
Mug

Sour

Dunja Salecl
Potato masher

Sweet

Danilo Rojko
Dough roller

Spicy

Irena Porekar Kacafura
Box

Bitter

Vesna Koprivnik
Two-Screw Intramedullary Nail...

Sour

Maja Knez
Clay jug for making sour milk

Sweet

Nives Cvikl
Mug

Sweet

Valentina Bevc Varl
Cup with saucer

Salty

Gero Angleitner
Salt cellar

Salty

Gero Angleitner
A mortar

Sour

Gero Angleitner
Mandolin slicer

Salty

Gero Angleitner
Kitchen grinder Titan Kamnik

Salty

Gero Angleitner
Peugeot grinder

Sour

Janez Bogataj
Weck pot for boiling fruit and ...

Salty

Zinka Visočnik
Kneading bowl - nečke

Salty

Zinka Visočnik
Stand for kitchen utensils

Sweet

Zinka Visočnik
Spoon

Sour

Aleš Wenzel
Bottle opener

Colors

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. We associate yellow, orange and bright red with activity. Dark red, magenta and purple are associated with decline, while passivity is marked by blue shades.

 

dr. hc Vojko Pogačar, academic painter

Music

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

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 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.