Alimentarium

The Alimentarium on the shores of Lake Geneva is a great place to visit, regardless of your age. You can easily find it by looking for the giant fork planted in the bottom of the lake facing the Alps. It's owned by the Nestlé foundation and has the main objective to teach the visitors how to eat healthily. You can participate in baking classes, buy relevant food literature and have a well prepared meal in the dining room, self service café or in their gardens. When entering the building you are reminded of what greens you should get or cultivate in your garden for making a good salad or a ratatouille. Highly recommended for all ages.

Screens and more screens. You take your kid to a “museum” to avoid too much TV and mobiles and, at end, Alimentarium is basically reading everything on screens. Ah, English French and German only. Maybe nice for 12 years old kid, not younger.

I visited the Alimentarium with friends for the Riviera Night of Museums event. This visit is about twenty years after my last visit to this museum when I was a child. Compared to the 2000s, the museum has certainly evolved by becoming more innovative and interactive. I know it still offers cooking workshops, something I appreciated when I was a kid. Unfortunately, the Alimentarium is still the least impressive Nestlé museum I have visited, compared to the Vevey Nest Museum that closed several years ago, the Maison Cailler Museum in Broc, or even the Lindt Chocolate Museum in Zurich, which is not part of Nestlé but is also dedicated to food (chocolate). The Alimentarium is much smaller, less interactive, and less immersive in the theme, but I still see progress and a willingness to improve.

This place exceeded all our expectations. We knew this is a very good museum, but we did not know was going to be so fun for all of us, our kids loved every corner of the Alimentarium. This is a real interactive and educational experience.

Quite boring for 15 CHF, a bunch of videos & photos for the most part.

Love this place. Looks imposing from the outside so you might not immediately wonder in, like me, I waited a year before I finally went in! But once you’re here, you’ll love the staff, the excellent coffee (of course!) and the ambiance. One of my favourite places to visit in Vevey. Here’s another thing I love, check out the toilets - both men and women have baby changing rooms. That’s cool! Well done, Nestle 👍🏻🙏❤️

It's not bad, but there are too many screens with too much text, the games are too hard to play. We did enjoy the (temporary) chocolate show where we got to taste very unusual stuff.

The food museum is located near the Lake of Geneva; that is why it has a beautiful view. The museum itself is a good scientific museum with lots of information about food history, devices and even internal digestive and sensitive systems of human body. I think it is a good place for children (due to lots of interactive games related to food industry) and for adults it can be also an interesting place, if you are really into this kind of informative museums. We were there in a hot summer day and unfortunately inside the building was also very warm. I think the ticket is also too expensive. Keep in mind, if you don’t want to read all of the signs and information; you can finish it in about one hour. It has also a restaurant and a coffeeshop inside the museum; but I think they are very expensive too. Here also you can get student discount :) so don’t forget your student card. After visiting Chaplin’s world, this museum was not that attractive for me. (I visited both of them in one day)