Agropolis

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Agropolis Museum is a former French institution for the dissemination of scientific culture oriented towards world food and agriculture, opened in 1994 and closed in 2010. Its objective was to give a dynamic perspective to agriculture and food: to understand the quest for food throughout history, in view of the diversity of human cultures. This museum was located in the "Hospital Faculties" district in the North-East of Montpellier. It was the only French museum of food and health anthropology and received thousands of visitors every year, including many schools. The main themes were food balance and inequality, the links between food and health, food, agriculture and world crops.

History: The idea of creating a museum on world food was envisaged in Montpellier in September 1992, at the initiative of Louis Malassis (researcher, agronomist, 1918 – 2007) and thanks to the mobilization of the international scientific community of Agropolis, France's largest tropical and Mediterranean agronomic research centre. Founded under the direction of Louis Malassis...