World's largest coffee museum to break ground

This article was published by the Taiwan Headlines on December 11, 2006. It reports that the world's largest coffee museum is scheduled to break ground on December 15, 2006, at an agricultural park belonging to the Council of Agriculture in southern Taiwan's Pingtung County.

The groundbreaking ceremony will take place together with the inauguration of the Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park. Ambassadors to Taiwan from such coffee-producing countries as Panama, Costa Rica and Malawi will be attending the ceremony.

The coffee museum will feature five theme parks. It will combine a coffee biotech factory with other tourism and leisure facilities, in order to showcase coffee culture and coffee-making equipment.

In addition to a detailed introduction to the history of drinking coffee, several world-renowned coffee brands will also provide coffee-producing equipment and coffee sets for the museum's display. Some of the equipment are dated to four or five hundred years ago.

The coffee museum will take about a year to complete. It is scheduled to open to the public in 2008.