The way you eat it is you cut the tip off and then suck the ice cream out. So like any museum they had a gift shop. I bet my friend Willis, a.k.a. You trade them with friends and put them on letters. They are very popular.
Many places have ones with specialized images like pictures of the ramen museum etc.
The interesting thing about this machine is it has a plug on the top for a digital camera. That means that if you have a digital camera you can plug it in here to print out your own pictures. This huge thing is a common vegatable added to ramen. It starts as the big pointy thing on the left and through a faily complicated process ends up in your ramen like the stuff on the right. Here are various ramen noodles from different regions.