Coffee Festival

Black, white, short, tall and everything in-between – indulge your coffee obsession at Auckland Museum’s Coffee Festival. Get into the action with a with a cup and saucer fairground ride outside the southern museum entrance. Follow the aroma of coffee roasting to experience the action inside.

Check out coffee facts, live coffee plants, and witness the creation of coffee art as almost 3000 cups of coffee become transformed into a mosaic of the Auckland Museum façade.

Journey up to level 2 and step inside Craig Miller’s ‘Coffee and Conversations’. Himself a coffee legend, Miller tells fascinating tales about how New Zealand became a nation of coffee addicts, as he creates espressos for you. Enjoy short films on coffee, between coffees.

At 2pm consider the conscience of the coffee industry in-depth as a panel in our auditorium discusses fair trade, The Cup of Excellence award and other ways to make our daily cuppa more socially responsible. A film programme on coffee also takes place on this level throughout the day.

Take the lift to level 3 under the dome, and experience an authentic Ethiopian Coffee ceremony. Learn about how parts of coffee machines function to create our beloved espressos. But there is more than one way to make a coffee; so check out live demonstrations as coffee masters present the art of Affogato, Stove Top, Turkish, French press, Aeropress, Chemex, Siphon coffee and more. And for the more creative; witness some of New Zealand’s best as they produce works of art out of Latte foam.

Want more of a caffeine fix? Enjoy free cups of espresso coffee from some of Auckland’s best coffee aficionado’s including Altura, Toasted Espresso, L’Affare, Ben Café, Atomic, Gravity, Kokako, Espresso Workshop, Coffee Supreme, Alt Ice, Coffee Lab, and Columbus.

And not forgetting the children, our under-age coffee drinkers can enjoy fluffies from the Columbus fluffy cart all day.

Join us as Auckland Museum’s Coffee Festival showcases the glorious history of coffee in Auckland.

Located in the Event Centre.

Event listed by Auckland Museum

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