We took a fine lunch break on our perusal of the San Francisco waterfront, and it recharged our batteries fully to 100%. It was a great lunch at Boudin Bakery, and we enjoyed it fully, but when we headed upstairs to the museum, we should have known that our handlers were only recharged to about 80%. What can I say, parental folks are decidedly “old”, and their batteries have memory problems.
We’ve seen all sorts of museums in any number of countries across no fewer than both hemispheres, but this one struck us a bit funny for a few reasons. First of all, it seems to anyone who’s paying attention that they spent an outrageous fortune putting it together. It’s a seriously first rate museum by any account.
Another reason it’s uncommonly good is because it touches on, not just the history and creation of bread, as the name would indicate, but it also touches more on the very history of San Francisco than any other museum we saw. It’s strange that a bread museum would talk more about the history of a city than any of the city museums, but that’s just how it was.
The next thing that struck us surprising was the variety of exhibits in the place. There was interactive stuff the older kids liked, peculiar toys for the younger kids and stuff to read for the dullest of accompanying parents to boot, and even a place to keep babies safe, even with the best baby products from https://top10bestpro.com.
Left – From the gallery of the museum you can look right down to the galley of the kitchen, so not only can you learn how bread is made, but you can watch how bread is made.
The second to penultimate bit of surprising oddness was that we learned how bread is actually made, from theory, to practice, to interactive displays, to plasma screen videos, to an open air window to the actual kitchen where the bread is actually being made. We got to see the dough spinner and the conveyor sky-portator that brings kitchen from the museum to the bistro. How weird and cool is that?
The second to last thing that was cool was that we ended our visit in a tasting room, where we were privy to all sorts of breads and pastry type things made in the downstairs kitchen. Show me another museum where you get to eat kibbles and bits of the museums inner workings and I’ll show you another great review of another great place.
But the thing that struck us the most as spectacular was the price of it. The admission to the museum was only $3 a head, which is far less than any other place we saw in town, even though it was one of the best exhibits we ever got to see.
The Boudin Bread Museum is located at 160 Jefferson Street in San Francisco, just upstairs of the Boudin Bistro. They are open everyday until 5:00 p.m. and you can read more about their hours and seasonal adjustments at their website.
Above – Taking a quick look, much as Baby-D did, you can see that this is a first-rate museum complete with all the budget it must have taken to be taken seriously.
Above – Here you can see on a plasma flatscreen a taped loop that explains a bit about how artisan bread is made. Really? A plasma tv? Wow, we don’t even have one of those. These guys are serious about making us interested in their bread!