Museo del Chocolate

This is a museum that's hopefully still being curated and sourced. The info is interesting, if you can read and understand Spanish. Chocolate's role in civilization throughout the centuries is important for people to know. Hopefully this organization can figure how to use the same App the Museum of Memory and Tolerance uses for self-guided tours in English.

Like other reviews say, it's small. I think for the size, it's overpriced at 80 pesos. Despite this, it is enjoyable, they close at 5 and i came after 4 but only needed 10 min for a quick peak. My favorite part was the aroma section. I learned there were 3 different types of cacao beans - would have been nice to sample each one or know in the chocolate shop which came from which bean. When you enter they give you a sample of a raw cacao beans, but once I learned there are multiple different kinds of cacao, it would have been more special to experience the different kinds! I've visited another chocolate shop in another country where they just melt the chocolate so it's pure and vegan and you sample the different kinds. Like a chocolate flight. I was disappointed in the shop, the cafe space is very nice but more chocolate should be without dairy. The cafe spot also has a large section that says veganos which I thought meant vegan but apparently none of it is vegan. There were 3 chocolate pieces that were suitable for vegans but the rest all have milk. Please include more vegan options, either more dark cacao options or with plant based milks 🙏

A quaint little place operated by a delightful group of teens and twenty-somethings, some speak English and are eager to use it . That comes in handy as the verbiage that accompanies the displays is in Spanish. Informative but alas no free samples 😞. However , there is a gift shop and cafe with excellent boutique ( and inexpensive) chocolate to satisfy your craving.

The museum is located inside a very pretty old building, I loved it. Yes, I wish there was information or signs in English :( it's such a pity. It was very cute, and chocolate store downstairs is also very nice !

Interesting. It’s worth a visit. It’s super cheap for tickets. It only takes about 15min to get through the museum. Buy some chocolate in the cafe, carry on.

We can learn the history of the chocolete not only from the eyes but also from the nose and tongue. I want to visit again to buy more chocolates! They are guiding us.

The chocolate museum is a great spot to quickly learn something new about chocolate while enjoying some delicious treats from their in-house shop. For just a couple of dollars, it’s totally worth stopping by if you’re in the neighborhood!

A delightful little museum with a cafe, a chocolate shop, and a gift shop. The tour guide was excellent.

The Museum of Chocolate in Mexico City is awesome, man. It's like a mansion where chocolate and history are shackled up together. You walk in, and it smells like Willy Wonka's cologne--if Willy Wonka shopped at an artisan cacao boutique. They got exhibits about how chocolate started, and it turns out, that chocolate's been working harder than I ever will. It used to be a drink, a currency, and now it's a candy bar. That's a better résumé than mine. You learn about cacao and how it became chocolate, and by the end, you're like, "Man, cacao deserves its own reality show." I'd binge that. They do these tastings where you eat fancy chocolate, like the kind you eat with a monocle. Some of it's spicy, some sweet, and some makes you go, "Wait, this is chocolate?!" It's like a flavor rollercoaster, but nobody screams. And the building, it's this fancy old house that's probably thinking, "I was built for aristocrats, but now I host chocolate enthusiasts. Life's sweet." They've got a café ( I got the chocolate con chile) and a gift shop where you can buy chocolate to take home, but let's be real--you're eating it before you even leave. So, if you're in Mexico City and you love chocolate, go check it out. Even if you don't love chocolate, go anyway. It'll convince you.

It is not a huge place. If you have a guide that will help you through the displays if your Spanish isn't that good. Otherwise, the museum is worth a walk through but to me the main event was to make your own chocolate. I am not sure how to get this set up to be part of your experience since it was prearranged by the person guiding us. Find out in advance, so you will not be disappointed! By using the Metate, the concave curved stone slab used by the Aztecs to grind shelled cacao beans to paste, you take the roasted beans and some sugar through the process of making chocolate. Yes, it is pretty much that simple when it comes to the ingredients. However, the labor needed to make the magic happen might be more than expected. The people there will help guide you in technique, but it really comes down to your time and effort to make it happen. The end result is a paste I would have liked to take home with me. However, the way they had you end the experience there was to mix it with either milk or water to drink it. Yes, the milk, at least for me, is better tasting, but since this is probably something you are ever going to do once in your life, do try it BOTH ways!

If you are looking for a history lesson on chocolate then you've come to the right place. Be prepared to read. Most of the picture descriptions are in Spanish. The history is in English. It's a lot to read. This isn't a tasting tour. You get one taste of a roasted cocao bean and then it's all reading. There are pictures to go with the history. I loved the chocolate wall papered room. It's discs of chocolate lining the wall. It's heaven. The smelling stations were heavenly too. You can smell some of the main ingredients in chocolate. They also have nice bathrooms. If you want a history lesson then this is the place for you.

This museum was okay. It's something to do and it's cheap. I definitely would not go on my way to go see this. Don't expect anything like the museum of chocolates in Germany from Lindt. There's a bunch of various exhibits about the history of chocolate and there is a interactive table where you can play with cocoa powder. You learn a lot about how the whole world was tied together through chocolate sugar and the spice trade. It really makes you think twice before you buy some chocolate from the supermarket.

In Mexico City for the first , the museum was a perfect stop on my list of many things I'd like to see. The tour is mostly self-guided. Prior to entering you are provided with a sample a cacao which is a nice treat. I loved the different displays explaining the history and backstory of the different origins of chocolate. Very detailed information throughout and very easy to follow. One of my favorite rooms was the room filled with real chocolate circles throughout. Great photo opportunity, but even better aroma. It felt like a room out of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Next favorite room was the one with the various scents and flavors of the chocolate. Vanilla was in my top 3, but I was pleasantly surprised with the other flavorings offered. Overall, the museum was informative and a fun stop while in Mexico City. At the very end, there is a small cafe and an opportunity to buy multiple variations of chocolate.

You could say I'm a chocoholic, so when I learned there was MUCHO - Museo del Chocolate, we had to check it out while in Mexico City. This chocolate museum is great for learning about how chocolate came to be in Mexico and its history. We visited Mucho in the afternoon and the place wasn't busy. Located in the Juarez neighborhood, it wasn't a far walk from the Roma or Condesa area where we were staying. After getting tickets, you're invited to taste a cacao bean and then tour the museum, which is all self-guided. There was information in English, which was helpful to learn about the history of chocolate and its significance in Mexico. The different rooms also have items that show different tools of how chocolate is enjoyed and prepared. There was one room, just to show the different mole recipes and how chocolate is used for it. The museum isn't very large. Even after reading all of the information, my partner and I spent an hour at the museum then we had a hot chocolate at the gift store and cafe. Sadly, there weren't any free chocolate tastings others than the cacao bean you first taste nor do you see how the chocolate here is prepared, like a factory. It truly is more of a small, history museum of chocolate.

Some interesting detail about the role of cacao in ancient Mexican history..also features a bit.of the.process of making chocolate. And you can see some odd sculptures made of chocolate. The museum itself isn't very big as you can go through it in 20 minutes. There's a nice cafe featuring different kinds of drinking chocolate and chocolate treats at the very end.

I looked at the yelp and trip advisor reviews when planning my trip, so I had an idea of what we were getting into by visiting this small museum. Take a look a reviews and photos... if you don't mind spoiling some of the fun parts of the museum. Better to spoil the surprises than to find out this place is not your kinda thing. I liked our visit. There was a ton of information to read/learn about cacao history and production. I enjoyed the interactive olfactory exhibit the most. They need to add more interactive things like this to the museum. The vintage chocolate stuff was interesting to me. The cocoa powder thing you could actually touch and chocolate disk room was pretty cool. Overall we spent about 2 hours here because we spent a long time in the chocolate cafe buying a ton of chocolate bars. Overall, we enjoyed the chocolate bars we purchased over the next couple of months, but I liked the non-cinnamon chocolate bars the best. The gift shop was kinda cute, but they need better/more affordable options for kids and adults. I was close to buying some cacao bean earrings and a pendant, but the post on the earrings was a bit crooked when they took it out of the case for me to look at it. Around the corner from where they sell the chocolate bars, they had a different counter that sold us a chocolate tamal and some chocolate bread. These were just okay. The hot chocolate (or was it cold? idk) was alright. Some of the food offerings could be improved.

Skip the tour. Go to the store and enjoy chocolate cake. The tour was in Spanish and I had no idea what was being said. But the chocolates are delicious! 75 peso per person for tour and no samples.

The architecture in this neighborhood is impressive and has a old world vibe. But this museum was meh. Stop by if you want to spend 30 minutes learning about the process of chocolate making. MUCHO left mucho to be desired. It was too small to be thoroughly entertaining and most rooms were vastly empty. The best part was the chocolate gift shop where you can buy tasty treats. There's also a spot to buy chocolate drinks and they are a must! Verdict: skip the museum part and just enjoy a hot chocolate and brownie in the cafe.

Pretty cool, but not what I was hoping for. I was hoping for something straight out of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory- where you get taken through the history of chocolate on a boat floating down a chocolate river, with Ooompah Loompahs singing about Cocoa and Cacao. Sadly, this was not the case. The floors were made of wood, not chocolate. However, there was a whole room made of chocolate! Sadly, they don't let you lick the walls. I think they're load-bearing chocolate walls. The displays take you through the history of chocolate, from the early Aztec and Mayan days when they used cacao beans as currency, and a slave could be purchased for a handful of beans. Then, it takes you through the Colonial period, when the Europeans took the food back home to great astonishment. Chocolate has always been seen as a divine food, handed down straight from the gods. I absolutely agree! The displays were mostly in Spanish, with the occasional English display card. They take you through a hallway of essential oils of things that go into chocolate bars, like mint, anise, or lavender. There could have been a bit more samples, but the tour ends in the chocolate shop where you can get a bunch of high end chocolates, hot chocolate drinks, and chocolate tamales. The staff was friendly, and didn't stalk while we checked out the exhibits. They were good natured into letting me into the room made of chocolate to stand there and take in the heavenly chocolate smells that standing in such a room generated. They seem to make a bunch of the chocolate in the candy store on site- if you wander towards the bathrooms, you can find their big chocolate making machines. There seems to be no parking for this museum.

I love exploring different areas and trying local dishes. I happen to come across this chocolate museum and decided to drop in. It wasn't quite what I was expecting as there were only a few small rooms that were too crowded to even go in. I am not sure if a guided tour is included, but I went through it fairly quickly (15-20 mins). The shop is towards the exit. The cheesecake was delicious and the chocolate with chile was interesting (not bad just different).

Ok, the museo was fun, mainly because I'm a chocophile. It's not an amazing experience and I've seen better museums dedicated to this topic. (2stars) but we loved the hot cacao drinks ! ( 4.5 stars). So if recommend swinging by for the drink and skipping the small 'museum'.

Excellent museum, i took my three kids and husband all four enjoyed the experience and had a free tour which was fun and informative.. we learned a whole lot of the history of chocolate and enjoyed the end of the tour at their cafe with chocolate drinks and tamales.

Just okay - not what I had been hoping for. It was a little on the sweet side, but if you like that, then this is your place!