So Noble a Confection: Producing and Consuming Chocolate, 1600 - 2000
Firmin Bouisset, 'Chocolate Menier', poster, French, 1895. Museum no. E.154-1921
19 October 2010 – 14 September 2011
Sackler CentreFree admission
For the past 400 years chocolate has fed both our senses and our imagination. This display charts the origins, making, importation and consumption of chocolate in South America and Europe, 1600 – 2000. Drawing on a wide range of V&A objects, including ceramics, metalwork and prints, it will examine our enduring love affair with the 'divine nectar'.
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V&A Chocolate and Cherry Biscuits
These delicious chocolate and cherry biscuits are made especially for the V&A.
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