The Johann Jacobs Museum, located on the lakeshore at Seefeldquai 17 in Zurich, occupies the elegant Villa Ernst, built in 1913 in neorococo style by the architect Otto Honegger for the entrepreneur Fritz Ernst-Curty. Initially, it housed the Jacobs Suchard coffee museum, founded in 1984 by Klaus J. Jacobs, later renovated in 2013 by Miller & Maranta as a venue dedicated to the history of global trade routes and the connections between cultures and economies.

Since September 2022, the museum has taken on a new role: it has become the physical location of the Digital Museum of Learning, a project that explores the world of learning through interactive exhibitions, stimulating the curiosity of children, teachers, and families through engaging events and digital content.

During the dedicated exhibitions, the path highlights the connections between goods such as coffee, cocoa, cotton, rubber, or oil and global dynamics of power, labor, and culture, accompanied by an iconic mural frieze with symbolic objects of global modernization.