CookBook Museum

Background

gewerkdesign’s suggestion for transforming the 1988 display collection of the Cookbook Museum in Dortmund into a modern exhibition was a simple one: A kitchen at the exhibition’s centre was to be surrounded by cookbooks and their authors, which in turn were surrounded by displays explaining different phases of Dortmund’s culinary history.

A multi vision was to illustrate, how »foreign« dishes grew more and more popular in Dortmund, while the view from the kitchen was to be out onto a garden with gigantic vegetable plants.

Unfortunately the project was put on hold because the structure of the historic building was discovered to be insufficient, necessitating a complete renovation first.