Slice of history at museum

There is now a museum for pizza lovers everywhere that’s popped up in arguably America’s pizza capital, New York City.

The Museum of Pizza is dedicated to all things cheese and sauce, but there’s more to it than meets the tongue.

“It’s often that the simplest ideas are the best. And we wanted to use pizza’s ubiquitous appeal to get people through the door and looking at art and hearing about history in a different format,” said Alexandra Serio, chief content officer at Nameless Network, the group that baked the Museum of Pizza idea.

“Our approach to this Museum of Pizza is a fine art approach, so we went out to multiple artists contemporary in many mediums, and asked them for their interpretation of pizza,” said Serio. “And what we got back is, it ranges the gambit, let’s just say that. That’s an understatement.”

Located on the street level of Brooklyn’s William Vale hotel, the museum is an expansive, one-floor space that houses a wide variety of art, from giant photographs to sculptures to large installations that engulf visitors. And the popup museum, also known as “MoPi,” has already drawn a lot of interest — more than 6,000 people came through the doors when they opened this month.