Christmas wish

24 December 2016

Amsterdam Pipe Museum wishes all its relations a prosperous 2017. We hope to welcome you in our museum and our museum shop again in the New Year.

Medicinal pipe

14 December 2016

In an article written this month entitled The medicinal pipe of the Maasai, rite or rubbish? Don Duco discusses a remarkable acquisition of the Pijpenkabinet. It is a bone pipet that is said to have been used by medicine-men of the African Maasai tribe,a nomadic tribe who live near Lake Victoria. Read the article and form your own opinion non this remarkable object. The semi smoking pipe bought by our museum will be kept as evidence of this special form of tourist art. It will be the start of exposing other local smoking pipes as items for tourists and that way get a better image of the world wide culture of pipe smoking.

Discussion private museums

8 December 2016

Every month, a current theme on museums is discussed with colleagues and interested parties in the Salon Museologie. This time the theme was the private museums: Do they have more options due to their independence? Do they have better prospects for the future? On behalf of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, Benedict Goes participated in the forum on these themes. It became clear that our museum takes its task very seriously, for example by being registered since 2006. In a short PowerPoint, the museum contrasted positively with the others.