Yanqing builds China's first potato museum

Potatoes also have a museum. China's first and only "Potato Museum" was completed in Yanqing County, Beijing. The history, current condition, development, promotion and application of potatoes in China are shown at the exhibition hall which covers an area of 3,000 square meters through precious photos and plenty of objects.

There are mini potatoes as small as soybeans, big potatoes as big as pillows, colored potatoes in red, purple and black, Shepody potatoes suitable for cooking French fries, Atlantic potatoes for cooking potato chips, and potatoes from Holland suitable for cooking dishes. At the potato museum, the most eye-catching one is the real exhibits. Visitors marvel at the dishes cooked using potatoes and the hundreds of new potato types that are displayed in the cupboards. 　

Vincent van Gogh's famous painting "The Potato Eaters" represents the international background of the small potatoes. 7,000 years ago, people living on the South American continent began to eat wild potatoes as food; Peru was the world's first country to plant potatoes; colonists from Spain took potatoes from the Andes to Europe; around the Christian era 1621, potatoes, sweet corn and peanuts were introduced to China. Currently, China has become the world’s largest potato-planting country. The museum also demonstrates the entire process of producing potatoes, including detoxication, seed breeding and planting.

The potato museum is located at the first floor of Xisen Potato Industry Group in Yanqing Country. It took the company more than two years to complete the museum at a cost of millions of yuan.