The giant fork
Eight metres of steel planted in the lake.
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Very — the display is interactive with screens and hands-on experiments, the cookery workshops (by booking) are among the most enjoyable things a child can do in the region, and the outdoor garden explains where vegetables come from. Displays are in French, English and German. Combine it with the Vevey quay walk, the giant fork, and the Grande Place market if it is a Tuesday or Saturday.
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The Alimentarium is **the world's first museum devoted entirely to food**, opened by Nestlé in 1985 in its historic headquarters on Lake Geneva in Vevey. Its subject is not cooking alone but food as a complete human phenomenon: where it comes from, how it is grown, processed and preserved, what it does to the body, and how it has shaped cultures, religions and economies. The display is modern and interactive across three sections (food, society and the body) with screens and hands-on experiments — and it holds a **teaching kitchen** running cookery workshops for visitors and children (by booking), plus an outdoor food garden of seasonal herbs and vegetables. Directly in front of it in the lake stands **the giant fork**: an eight-metre steel fork planted in the water, installed in 1995 as a temporary work for the museum and kept because people loved it — now Vevey's most photographed sight, and free to photograph from the quay.
Eight metres of steel planted in the lake.
Cookery workshops for visitors and children, by booking.
From farming to the body, culture and religion.
Quai Perdonnet 25, 1800 Vevey