We live in Scotland, but my wife went on a school trip to Switzerland around 2007(ish). She insists that she went to a banana museum during this trip, but we canât find any proof it ever existed.
I personally think sheâs bonkers – (why would you set up an exhibition filled with things that last a fortnight?) – but sheâs so adamant, I donât think sheâs making it up intentionally.
Please help – does anyone have any memories of a museum, or an exhibition in a museum, that featured things like adverts for bananas, comics that feature bananas, and (she insists this is true) âsomething to do with condomsâ.
Tell me, is my wife bananas!?
UPDATE: Somebody on the r/askswitzerland subreddit has answered my plea – âShe’s not bonkers! The Alimentarium had an exhibition on bananas in 2006/2007. https://www.alimentarium.org/en/museum/exhibition/n%C2%B0-35-sacr%C3%A9e-banane â
Thanks to all the tried to help!
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bananenmuseum you mean the one in Germany?
Chiquita offices in Etoy, between Geneva and Lausanne? Maybe the food museum, operated by Nestle, in Vevey?
I found something, but it is from 2011 (and I only found links in German):
– https://www.tagblatt.ch/kultur/buch-buehne-kunst/in-dieser-ausstellung-dreht-sich-alles-um-die-banane-ld.2053957
– https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d5297afe757d40001e01c4e/t/5d7b9163d31f562839d249e2/1568379257235/Bulletin90.pdf
– http://www.catnuss.com/de/museum/going-bananas/
Maybe there was a similar exhibition some years earlier (even when I currently can’t find any traces of it)?
The closest thing that comes to my mind is the penis museum in Reykjavik.
Maybe your wife is just bananas?
You sure was a “banana exhibition” and not a sausage party?
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