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THE MYSTERY OF GELATO

CARPIGIANI GELATO MUSEUM

Traditional Italian hand-made ice cream,
Gelato, is still quite new for customer in China;
while for Chinese people ice cream associates
with brands like Häagen-Dazs, Cold Stone Cream-
ery, ICEASON etc., there are more and more
people nowadays attracted by low-sugar and low-
fat Italian delight with a long history in Europe.
For a newbie in gelato world there is prob-
ably no better place to start getting to know its
history than a Gelato History Museum. In 2012
famous Italian ice cream equipment producer,
Carpigiani, founded the first Gelato museum in
Bologna, Italy, it is also known as one of the
seven coolest new museums. The museum’s total
area is more than 1,000m , gathering 20 different
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types of gelato equipment, 10,000 photos, videos,
documents’ archive under the same roof. Since
its opening 5 years ago, the museum has at-
tracted more than 11,000 visitors from all over
the world.

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