10 Museums and Festivals Where Food Meets Art

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• Museu de la Xocolata in Barcelona features chocolate sculptures including a giant white chocolate monkey and replicas of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia.
• La Noche de Rábanos in Oaxaca, Mexico, is a radish-carving competition held every December 23, formalized in 1897 by Governor Francisco Vasconcelos.
• Tula Pryanik Museum in Russia displays elaborately decorated spiced cookies, including a 16 kg cookie.
• Fruitcorso in Tiel, Netherlands, features parade floats covered in fruit and vegetables, held annually on the third Saturday of September.
• Archi di Pane in San Biagio Platani, Sicily, involves constructing life-sized structures from bread for Easter.
• Salo Art Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, exhibits sculptures made from cured pork fat.
• Niederegger Marzipan Museum in Lübeck, Germany, displays life-sized marzipan figures of historical figures using the original 1806 recipe.
• Fête du Citron in Menton, France, uses 140 tons of citrus for giant sculptures, attracting 240,000 visitors annually.
• Szamos Marzipan Exhibition and Workshop in Szentendre, Hungary, features marzipan artworks of the Budapest Parliament and fairy tale scenes.
• Princess Kay of the Milky Way butter sculptures at the Minnesota State Fair are created by artist Linda Christensen, who has used 14,000 kg of butter.