New milestone in digitizing

29 July 2017

During the reloading of our photos in the online database, we passed the iconic border of thirty thousand objects. As announced two weeks ago all photos were deleted, but now the collection is back on-line, including the 2.000 objects that have been digitized last winter. This means that our collection is digitized for over 96% now, with the exception of a few hundred brass pipe moulds and a series of archaeological finds. These will be photographed next Winter period.

Pipe maker visits pipe museum

25 July 2017

Some visitors are more into pipes than others. Today we had a highly interested visitor: Roman Peter, a pipe maker, pipe collector and pipe store owner from Switzerland. During a holiday with his family, Roman spent a long time in the museum with all its stories on historic pipes. He was clearly enjoying himself and in the end he bought a fine piece for his collection in our museum shop. Also for us it was most stimulating to share our views with someone who is involved in pipes for so long.

New upload of photos

12 July 2017

Starting today our online collection database will be closed for maintenance. Over the last two years we updated the standard format of our photographs, which means that we need to reload all photos into the database. First step is that all photos will be deleted and then reloaded. This task will take at least two weeks. So, if you want to search our database, you'll have to wait. Finally all information will be back on-line, including the most recent photos.