Coffee Yatra Museum

CULTURE, CHIKMAGALUR Updated : Apr 22, 2015, 10.37 AM IST

Supriya Sehgal

Supriya has over a decade’s experience in design and development of travel content for television, digital and print platforms. This includes writing and editing articles for national & international publications, curating a column, developing content for coffee table books to writing scripts for TV shows and spearheading projects in the digital marketing space. Of her many travel writing avtaars, she is happiest when penning a guidebook - it has something to do with the comprehensiveness of knowing a destination and the thrill of being on the road for long stretches. She has authored/co-authored over 30 books on travel and plans to stop only when she hits a 100. Find out more on http://www.supriyasehgal.com/.

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The Coffee Yatra Museum is an initiative of the Coffee Board of India. The museum is an attempt to create a thematic display of the coffee history, processes like picking, drying and grinding along with the different varieties so that the visitors can get an understanding of the painstaking procedures and the trajectory of the beverage in the country. One floor is dedicated to a gallery with pictures and exhibits in clean glass cases and a vivid description. There are short video presentations, which make the story of coffee easy to assimilate. There is also a laboratory where one can see the demonstration of grinding and other paraphernalia used in coffee processing. This is shown by an in-house expert. The museum is one the best depictions of the world of coffee in India. Only if there was a coffee tasting session, and the trip to Coffee Museum would be an all-encompassing experience. The museum is closed on weekends, which is unfortunate as most of the travellers are weekend holiday makers from Bangalore and other close by areas.
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