France’s first cheese museum opens

France’s first cheese museum opened in Paris, right in time for the Olympic Games being held in the City of Light.

The Musée du Fromage is billed as “an educational and interactive space for discovering France’s cheesemaking heritage and regions,” according to its website.

Its founder, Pierre Brisson, created it with a purpose of keeping the art of cheesemaking alive in France, which boasts 56 regional varieties made from cow, sheep and goat milk.

“It’s not an easy job, but a marvelous one, and there is a real risk that it could disappear,” he told The Guardian. “I wanted to do something so people understand at what point there is an ancestral savoir faire in making cheese.”