Tobacco wrappings

19 February 2012

This month the Pijpenkabinet received an extraordinary gift. It is the collection of Ab Venemans of Amsterdam. Venemans was and still is a motivated smoker who for the past thirty years smoked hundreds of different tobaccos. He always kept the wrappers and stored them methodically and so he finally became the owner of an almost complete series of tobacco pouches. Rev. Venemans did not only keep the pouches in mint condition but also fully documented. Especially for the future this acquisition is of great archive value.

Prinsengracht closed for traffic

12 February 2012

This month part of Prinsengracht where our museum is will be closed for all traffic over a long period. The embankment needs to be repaired urgently and therefore will be taken down completely in order to lay a new concrete foundation. The council expects it will need approximately nine months to get the work done before a new pavement can be laid. In the meantime our shop and Museum will remain open as usual, but visitors have to walk over a boarded pathway coming either from Leidsestraat or Spiegelgracht. Unfortunately there will hardly be any passers-by during that period.