Museum of Edible Earth

About Museum of Edible Earth

The Museum of Edible Earth has been envisioned since 2017 and assembled in 2020, in Amsterdam, NL. The museum brings together a collection of edible soils from across the globe. It invites the audience to review and rethink their knowledge about food and cultural traditions using creative thinking.

The Museum of Edible Earth through its exploration of edible soils explores the following questions: What stands behind earth-eating tradition? Where does the edible earth come from? What are the possible benefits and dangers of eating earth? How do the material properties in earth affect its flavor? With the view to understand more the reality of contemporary geophagy, and also to constitute the collection of The Museum of Edible Earth, the masharu studio has been building up an extensive database of the edible soils for oral use available on the market.

The goal is to constitute an extensive collection of soils suggested for oral use from the most countries possible and, through their different cultural uses and histories, but also with the help of cross-disciplinary partnerships, workshops and collaborations, redesigning and reconsidering the earth. The museum currently has more than 400 types of soil from 34 countries around the globe such as Belarus, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Slovenia, Suriname, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan and more.

Address

• Headquarters

  AmsterdamNoord-Holland, Netherlands

Team by function

Based on 3 public job profiles as of 4 September 2026.

• Design / UX1
• Operations1
• Other / Unclassifiable1