Crème de la Crème Opens Ice Cream Showroom and Museum

Who else could open a unique ice cream showroom and museum in Prague than Honza Hochsteiger, an enthusiastic expert on the entire history of ice cream production?

After four long years of hard work, the owner of the Crème de la Crème ice cream parlour is opening an exceptional place where visitors can see dozens of beautiful objects from the history of ice cream, a working replica of the original ice cream bar, and two historic ice cream laboratories.

The space offers more than 200 exhibits. The most valuable treasures of the museum are the Czech Frigera ice cream makers, which are not exhibited in any other museum in the world.

On the other hand, the oldest are the Baroque ice cream recipe books – Francois Massialotte’s book dates from 1693, in its original and pristine condition.

“The museum must be fun, but above all, it must be educational, which is why we have set up a section dedicated to refrigeration technology and a working model of an ice cream machine in a section. Part of the exhibition is interactive – visitors can run several ice cream machines themselves to see how the machines that wrote the history of the ice cream industry work,” said Honza.

Film lovers will also be in for a treat, with several documentaries about ice cream and even a documentary from the Crème de la Crème workshop still showing on the screen.

“I’m a collector and a museum-goer in body and soul. I was born that way. I also worked at the National Technical Museum for several years. Then when I started working on my business, I automatically went after its history. Gradually I discovered wonderful old ice cream machines, amazing stories, and started trying out historical recipes for making it,” he adds.