Exhibition on snuff tobacco

27 August 2016

The fall exhibition of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum is dedicated to smokeless tobacco or snuff. A series of snuffboxes, from simple to very luxurious, comes from our own reserves. Really sensational are the fine snuff rasps, used by the rich in the 18th century to grate tobacco into snuff powder. The wooden or ivory holder is finely carved with elegant scenes. This time the museum offers its visitors the ultimate snuff experience: you can take snuff yourself! How sensational, you leave the museum with a tickling nose.

Behind scaffolding

24 August 2016

As every house, also the museum needs a repaint. Today a huge scaffolding is being built at the front gable. It will be quite a task: window frames on four floors and the enormous wooden gable cornice. The last one hasn't been painted for years, so that needs extra attention. Probably all the old paint has to be removed. The scaffolding is even high enough to reach the typical Amsterdam lifting beam and hook. Needless to say: museum and museum shop will be open as usual.