Welcome to ChocoMuseo - online

ChocoMuseo is a new museum in the beautiful colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua where you can learn everything about chocolate and cacao!

ChocoMuseo has it's own factory where chocolate is handmade daily from 100% Nicaraguan organic cacao beans. You can see our chocolate artisans making chocolate and also make chocolate with your own hands in our chocolate workshops.

We make 50% cacao and 70% cacao organic chocolate, with no additives, plain or with different flavors. They are available for purchase in ChocoMuseo Shop and will soon be available in hotels and shops around Nicaragua.

The entrance of the museum is FREE

If you are a chocoholic or just interested in the history of this incredible and delicious mass consumption product, visit us.

On this website you will find all the information you need about ChocoMuseo, Cacao, Chocolate and planning your trip to Granada, Nicaragua.

ChocoMuseo opened the 17th of July 2010

Welcome to ChocoMuseo - online

On the road to Matiguas

Last week, we went to get our cacao in the north of Nicaragua in Matiguas.

Matiguas is situated about 4 hours drive from Granada.

We went to visit la "Cooperativa Cacaotera la Campesina"

The cacao produced by the 500 farmers is mainly organic and certified by BioLatina.

It is known to have a great flavour and is a mix of Criollo type and Forastero type.

For our chocolate at ChocoMuseo we bought 100% Organic Cacao

Then we went to visit one of the cacao plantation near Rio Blanco (30 minutes from La Campesina) : It is Armando's farm with 5.6 Hectares of cacao plantation (about 6000 cacao trees)

Armando showed us his plantation and also the bio fertilizer he was using for its trees to grow.

Armando has one of the most productive cacao plantation and the seeds from his trees are used to improve genetically the plantation of the cooperativa.

In the museum, you will be able to read more about "la Cooperativa Cacaotera la Campesina" and also on Armando's farm

On the road to Matiguas

Preview of the Chocolate Museum

Please find above one of the future sign you will find at ChocoMuseo.

This sign is about Cacao at the time of the Mayas.


All the signs in the museum were designed by Alain Schneider.

Preview of the Chocolate Museum

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All you ever wanted to know about the history of chocolate

From the Mayas (2000 years ago) to mass comsumption (today)

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In this section, you will soon learn :

About the cacao tree and cacao harvesting

How to process cacao to make different products and mainly chocolate

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The chocolate factory

For about one month, we are processing our own chocolate.

The cacao comes from different part of Nicaragua : Mombacho volcano, Matiguas (North of the country) and Rio San Juan (South of the country).

After roasting the fermented seeds and removing the husk, we grind the cacao nibs at "el molino".
Then we mix the cacao paste in the "Melangeur" with only sugar for about 12 to 28 hours.
The chocolate is delicious and we can really taste the cacao.
This chocolate will be for sale at the Museum shop.

The chocolate factory

Cacao Beans

Cacao Beans