Ag Stem Gallery: Sustainable Cans

$400,000

The invention of canned food changed our world, our meals, and even our bodies. Visitors walk through a stacked can room. Visitor’s pump, shake, and crank factory equipment to reveal the impactful history of canned food. Choose your favorite veggie to watch how it is prepped, chopped, canned, cooked, labeled, and shipped.

Exhibit Experiences

SUSTAINABLE CANS

From recycling to cutting food waste to busting food deserts, canned food is among the most sustainable ways of delivering nutritious vegetables to hungry people. Interactive graphics shine a spotlight on the can, the unsung hero of the food industry.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Interactive media takes visitors up close with the machines behind the magic.