MSA The Culinary Arts Academy of İstanbul

The museum, founded and continually improved by the founder of MSA, Mehmet Aksel, is one of its kind - bringing the past into the present, exhibiting the historical journey of food & beverage industry with rare displays. At MSA you can come across sugar moulds used by our grannies, brass coffee mills or tin cans, which you can only see in old Turkish movies, allowing you to travel into the past. The museum features everything related to kitchen and cooking, such as; cookery and bakery equipment, old frying-pans, oil cans; beer, raki, water and soda bottles, grocery store equipment, candy and gum packages, labels, cleaning supplies belonging to Ottoman and early-middle republican period, is shedding light onto the history of the industry. The museum boasts a rare collection of more than 2000 pieces, ranging from the final stages of Ottoman Empire to the early and middle republican period, that has witnessed to the development of the industry.