Sugar is more than a substance used to sweeten coffee or tea. There are few things in the world that don't involve sugar in one way or another. Discover the exciting history of this biomolecule in our permanent exhibition "Everything Sugar! Food - Material - Energy" to discover the exciting history of this biomolecule!

With the exhibition "Everything Sugar!" the Sugar Museum, which started in 1904 in the Institute for the Sugar Industry in Berlin-Wedding, has found a new home in the German Museum of Technology. It offers a fascinating panorama of sugary possibilities and the social changes they set in motion. The "queen of crops", the sugar beet, represents an agro-industrial revolution of the past. The new technologies for using sugar molecules as energy storage, bioreactors, or building materials for anything the 3D printer can make represent the future.

In the past, sugar came from sugar cane grown in the colonies. The cultivation and production of sugar was therefore closely linked to the exploitation and enslavement of mostly African people. Then, with the sugar beet, a new source from their own production opened up. The scientific foundations for the cultivation of the sugar beet were laid by the chemists Andreas Sigismund Marggraf and Franz Carl Achard in Berlin from the middle of the 18th century. "All Sugar!" explains to visitors how this breeding innovation triggered an economic revolution in agriculture. By the end of the 19th century, beet sugar was already the German Empire's most important export. Among other things, the exhibition shows the equipment that made this possible - from the beet topping sledge to the furrow opener to the modern beet harvester in Ferrari red.