Poperinge's new and extended Hop Museum is located in the old "Stadsschaal" or Municipal Scales. An informative audio tour guides you through four floors of history and culture, all the way from the impressive loft to the concluding ground floor. On your way down, local characters like "The Bagger" and "The Nose" will take you along the four seasons of the hop, leading to the world for brewing and beyond. Authentic hop tools, historic documents, photographs, scale models and audiovisual displays illustrate both the story of this unique building and that of local hop growing, past and present.
You can test your acquired knowledge on hop growing through an interactive computerquiz on each floor. The Hop Museum also invites you to discover the various aspects of hop in the region : architectural inheritance, hop fields, hop farms to visit, gastronomy,...