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Hello, and welcome to Hamburg's Speicherstadt.

You’re standing in the Kaffeemuseum Rösterei Burg – a coffee museum that doubles as a roasting house.

This historic warehouse was built in 1896 to store coffee, and with its solid oak beams, it’s an important part of the World Heritage Site that is the Speicherstadt – the warehouse district.

As recently as the 1990s, coffee was still being stored and processed on the ground floor of this warehouse. Today, that’s where you’ll find our café and our shop, which stocks not just coffee, but also a range of other delights.

If you walk towards the side of the building overlooking the water, you’ll see our most important exhibit: the historic gas-fired drum roaster from the 1930s. We still use it to roast our own Burg coffee.

To enter the museum, please keep to the left of the roaster and take the door leading to the basement.

On the way down, you’ll see some historical photographs taken in 1883. They show what it looked like here before the warehouse district was built. The photographer, Georg Koppmann, was commissioned by the city of Hamburg to create a record of the local area before it was fundamentally transformed.

Once you’re at the bottom of the stairs, turn to your left, where you’ll see the entrance to the coffee museum. It’s housed in a vaulted cellar that’s unique here in the warehouse district. That’s where we’ll be introducing you to the world of coffee, and where you can discover all about that noblest of crops.

Find out for yourself what makes good coffee, and afterwards: enjoy a cup of our own, freshly roasted Burg coffee.

Come on in!