CHOCOLATE MUSEUM
Handmade chocolates are famous in Ooty, Every tourist who visits Ooty will not forget the packs of chocolate. M & N Chocolate Museum on Mysore Road, near HPF factory. The brothers maintain it’s a first-of-its-kind in the country and it gives an insight into the history of chocolate-making.
The museum, with its vintage architecture and interiors that remind one of British country architecture, also boasts of model of horse carts, boat, idols, chocolate fountain, ancient chocolate making implements, cocoa seeds and the photographs of three Swiss men who were pioneer in home-made chocolate-making, along with signages on the health profit of chocolates. It also has a counter to house varieties of homemade chocolates.
December 2010 they had organized the first chocolate festival featuring 101 varieties and since then they had shown their deep love for cocoa and chocolates in different ways. Bringing into being a museum was a natural corollary.Apart from the 16 items designed with chocolates, posters listing the health benefits of cocoa have also been displayed.
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