2024

MUSEUM COFFEE

Museums

After eight years in the making, the Coffee Museum was inaugurated in 2015 to great fanfare in Kaffa, the historic home of the red bean roasted and ground around the world. Since then, the empty building has struggled to be filled, apart from a modest exhibition on the history of coffee, and in particular of the Kaffa species and its cultivation in the region. There are, however, a few archaeological objects on display, including the world's oldest coffee beans, discovered in the Kumale cave in the 3rd century AD. An exhibition that makes you want an espresso immediately.

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