Publication on small museums

26 January 2016

Today the first copy of a nice booklet was presented to Paul Spies, director of the Amsterdam Museum. Entitled 9 kleine museum in Amsterdam (9 small museums in Amsterdam), the booklet gives an introduction in text and images to a number of less well-known museum around the city. It is an initiative of the same foundation that did the street exhibition last year (see news 4 September 2015). This photo exhibition was so well received that this issue is a logical follow-up. Of course, the booklet is available from the Amsterdam Pipe Museum.

First acquisition in 2016

24 January 2016

As usually, also in this year we continue to look actively for acquisitions. At the start of a new year you never know what will come up. In the mean time, we got our first acquisition: a painted porcelain name-pipe from North-Netherlands origin. The slender porcelain bowl shows prominently the name of "FRIKKE W. MOLACH GEB. DEN 15. MAART1832" (born 15 March 1832). The Christian name is somewhat unusual but typical for the Groningen province. We have been able to trace that Frikke was born in Westeremden and buried in Uithuizermeden. Further research can unveil his profession. For now, it is a rare and fine porcelain bowl for a Dutch local smoker.

Over 130.000!

8 January 2016

Right at the start of this year we reached a new record with our website: 130.000 photographs are placed on our site! With this number we filled in the limits of our site capacity. The number and sizes of the files are so enormous that we now need to orientate to hire extra disk-space from the provider in order to expand. At this moment such an investment is not relevant, since we offer more than enough information with photo’s and detail pictures of 27.000 objects.