Next Saturday is Museum Night.

28 October 2014

During this Museum Night the Amsterdam Pipe Museum offers as a special program the Cuisine Tabac: drinks and food with tobacco taste. We start the evening with coffee and tobacco liquor cake. You can also pop in on Prinsengracht when we serve the authentic smoke beer.

Publication on smoking

25 October 2014

Recently a new study on smoking was published, edited as a simple paperback. Author Friso Schotanus titled his work "The best cigarette for your health", with as subtitle "How Smoking conquered the world." In his discovery through the history Schotanus tells the story of the cigarette, doing this in a special way. As a modern journalist and experienced author, he manages to make a fluent discourse, almost unnoticed supported by its sources. By using appropriate quotes he presents the topic powerfully, at the same time easy to read due to his journalistic skills. A must for readers that like to combine the quiet satisfaction of the pipe with the hectic history of the addictive cigarette smoking. For more information about the content read the review.

Antique tobacco wrappers

18 October 2014

A special field of collecting of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum is old tobacco wrappers. In this section we show some highlights of tobacco wrappers as were in use during the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the Low Countries. The earliest examples were simple illustrations, often related to the stone emblems in the gables of Dutch houses. They were printed by means of a simple woodcut. During the eighteenth century these wrappers became more detailed and were executed as engravings. More text was added to advertise the dealer. Of course, this all was meant as publicity for the merchant to hold the clientele.

45 years of pipe research

1 October 2014

Today it is exactly 45 years ago that along the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam a large cesspit was opened in which several thousands of clay tobacco pipes were found. The excavated pipes came from a tobacco inn dating between 1630 and 1640. The find was the start of the research on the Dutch clay tobacco pipe that finally resulted in what is now known as the Amsterdam Pipe Museum. A jubilee for the museum but also for Don Duco, the founder of the museum. His endeavor for 45 years made the Amsterdam Pipe Museum to what it is today. The social and historic significance of the tobacco pipe were the reason that the years passed by quickly, bringing a remarkable result in a vast series of publications and a fine museum collection.