Visiting the Lindt Home of Chocolate Museum in Zurich

I lived out my "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" dreams!! Read the full post to find out more about my visit at Zurich's chocolate museum, the Lindt Home of Chocolate, and what you can expect if you visit too! Even, learn some fun facts about chocolate you never knew!

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Sarah Strilchuk

3/20/20254 min read

I lived out my dreams as "Charlie in the Chocolate Factory" !!!

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On Monday March 10, 2025 (Day 3 of my Zurich Trip), I spent about 3 hours at my new favourite museum - The Lindt Home of Chocolate!! It's located about a 25-minute bus ride from Zurich's city centre.

I got to go through and learn about the entire process of how chocolate is created. In addition I learned the history of Lindt & Sprungli and how it became the global chocolate empire we know it as today! (Yes, it's actual name is Lindt & Sprungli, not just Lindt.)

As a student I got in for 15 Euros. They have lockers on the main floor for you to put your backpacks and jackets in as you are not allowed to bring bags into the museum. I wandered up a flight of stairs to the 2nd floor where the museum began. You take a handheld audio tour device and touch it to the plaque with your desired language. Then as you wander through the museum, there are white plaques with whisks on them located throughout each section. You tap your handheld tour device to each plaque - it makes a beep sound - and then you hold it to your ear to listen as it plays an audio track full of information. You continue to tap those plaques as you continue through the different rooms.

The museum takes you on an immersive story-like journey, starting with introducing you to the cocoa beans and their discovery, and then over several hundreds of years of how chocolate evolved into what it is today. Near the end, there are stations of where you can try chocolate from each different era's chocolate production technique, from the first form of chocolate to the most recent. There are even three chocolate fountains - dark, milk, and white - in which they give you spoons to take and try some for free. I may have spent a while hovering around those fountains ;)

Anyway, in that same room after the chocolate fountains, there is a fascinating assembly line exhibit showing how two different types of Lindt chocolate are made. They break down and explain each of the processes in detail. I took photos of each information block for me to read later so I could continue. At the end of the assembly lines was a chocolatier on a screen with 8 interaction motion-detected chocolate droppers of different flavours. Eventually after that, you'll reach a stand that says "Please take one of each flavour" of the Lindor chocolate truffle balls (best part, obviously).

Thankfully, I kept my museum ticket because at the very end, you scan your ticket, this golden ball rolls down this fun contraption, and then out pops a free chocolate reward.

To exit, you return your audio tour device and you leave through the Lindt chocolate shop where you can buy chocolate until your heart's content. They have every version and every flavour imaginable. I walked out with 40 Euros worth of chocolate...no regrets, except I wish I had bought more :)

Scroll down to look at pictures I took during my delicious visit!!

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Fun Facts I Learned at the Lindt Home of Chocolate (According to the Audio Tour):

1) To this day, no machine can place almonds on the tops of chocolate, so this process is still done by hand.

2) Swiss Chocolate has existed longer than the federation of Switzerland itself.

3) Ecuador was the first to discover cocoa powder. The Mayans would coat people in a cocoa powder solution in a ceremonial tradition similar to a Christian baptism.

4) Rudolph Lindt accidentally discovered the secret to melting chocolate! One friday, he left for the weekend and forgot to turn off the conching machine in his factory. The machine continued to work throughout the weekend and when Lindt returned on Monday morning, to his surprise, he opened the door to the most divine-smelling, liquid, warm chocolate - which he later named melting chocolate!

5) Spaniards were the first to add sugar to the chocolate powder and they introduced the whisk to Mexico. Chocolate was then brought to Spain and from Spain it spread amongst Europe.

6) Chocolate used to be considered a luxury for the upper class. In Great Britain it was reserved for the upper classes' gentlemen's clubs to enjoy amongst their liquor, etc.