This New York City Museum Examines Food And Drink Through Many Lenses

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Museum of Food and Drink reopened at the Empire Stores building in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood ...

[+] in February 2024. Adam Ninyo New York City is full of museums to see and places to dine at but there’s one attraction combining these two interests. It’s also holding a flavorful exhibition.

In February 2024, the Museum of Food and Drink settled within the Empire Stores building in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. Its second floor venue is the next recipe for this museum known by its moniker, MOFAD. “I always say that we’re like any other cultural institution [or] museum, but whereas many of them use the lens of visual arts or sculpture or dance to talk about the world, we look at the world through the lens of food and drink,” explained MOFAD’s President Nazli Parvizi.

“We always say that if you eat, you’re our audience.” MOFAD’s physical reopening, inside a reimagined brick warehouse dating back to the American Civil War and above Time Out Market New York, has peppered the museum’s return to Brooklyn. In 2022, the Museum of Food and Drink presented the exhibit, “African/American: Making the Nation’s .

.. [+] Table,” at The Africa Center in Manhattan.

© Clay Williams / http://claywilliamsphoto.com Its first brick-and-mortar location opened in Williamsburg in 2015, with the MOFAD Lab, a 5,000-square-foot design studio and gallery space. It was closed in May 2020, amid the impacting COVID-19.