High ranking on Tripadvisor

25 April 2018

The Amsterdam Pipe Museum is very popular on Tripadvisor for many years. We have earned the “Certificate of Excellence” year after year. Over the last months we even increased our ranking. Last year the museum was around nr. 62 out of 550 attractions in Amsterdam. Now we are upgraded to nr 23. In the category Museums we perform even better: number 5 of all 150 museums in the Amsterdam area. A top performance for a top museum!

Thank you!!!

11 April 2018

Today we received by post a big carton box with all kinds of pipes. On top was the note shown here, saying “a pity to through away”. The old pipes smoked by grandpa will have little value, they often remain unsold in the internet. But ... for the Amsterdam Pipe Museum definitely worth to look through. And guess what? One of the pipes has a previously unknown mark, while another can be reused for the restoration of a pipe in our collection. And a part is indeed not really worth keeping, they go to the museum shop and are taken for a euro as a souvenir. All in all a excellent idea to offer your old pipes and other tobacco paraphernalia to our museum. Many thanks to the unknown Anke & Willem Janssen on the note. Here is a call to all other Dutch people who still have some oddities! You are welcome at our place.

Museum Week

9 April 2018

During Museum Week the Amsterdam Pipe Museum is in the picture with a recent acquisition of posh design. It is a mega-sized meerschaum pipe bowl made from a special crystal-like meerschaum, assembled in silver around 1810 for a distinguished Russian officer. The pipe has a massive bowl, equipped with a beautifully forged cover shaped like a military helmet with an impressive comb on top and an embossed trophy of weaponry on both sides. Around the lower edge of the lid the necessary series of air inlets is provided so that the tobacco in this giant bowl can burn evenly. Although the Dutch Museum Association preaches for gold in organizing the Museum Week, gold has rarely been used for smoking pipes. For us this silver-mounted object is the true gold because of the exclusivity. The Museum Week lasts until 15 April.