Evenings for pipe smokers still popular

29 May 2019

Tonight, under the inspiring leadership of Benedict Goes, another smoking evening took place. Seated around the table in our central room was a nice group of aspiring pipe smokers and a few who had years of experience. For everyone, pipe smoking becomes so much more enjoyable if you have mastered the theory of filling your pipe and burning the tobacco. Whoever is interested to attend an evening can still send an email to info@pipemuseum.nl.

New award from Tripadvisor

27 May 2019

Tripadvisor has awarded our museum a Certificate for Excellence for several years. This means that our visitors rate the museum with the highest ranking in terms of service, experience and customer friendliness. Now that we have earned this award for five consecutive years, we now got a new qualification: Hall of Fame. We proudly carry this title and continue to offer our guests an unexpectedly rich experience with the world-wide collection in a beautiful canal house.

Ethnographical stuff

19 May 2019

The specialist collector of ethnographic art Gi Mateusen has been living in Turnhout, Belgium for many years. From his broad interest in African cultures, he brought together a fantastic ensemble of figured objects, such as fertility figurines, gold weights and especially combs. To make space, Mateusen decided to sell his pipes and tobacco-related objects. The purchase and transfer to our museum took place today. As a Belgian collector, he mainly owned items from the Congo. For our museum this purchase of about a hundred items is an important addition to the smoking equipment that we already have from African countries. The attached photo gives an impression of the unexpected variation in the richness of this collection.

Concluding Winter photography

6 May 2019

Yesterday, after a few months, we dismantled the temporary photo studio. For us  this is the starting signal for the tourist season. The photo sessions have again been very successful. We end up with just over 165,000 unique photos in our database! A fantastic result for a Winter period of hard work. This means that the acquisitions of the past year have been updated. We are now back for tourists who like to be scattered with stories about the global smoking culture. Let them come!