Confess colour

28 February 2022

Under the slogan “Beauty in response to ugliness ”, the Dutch museums express their support for the people of Ukraine. The Amsterdam Pipe Museum has never commented on political situations, but is now making an exception. We smoked a peace pipe and concentrated on our own work, but this unprecedented violation of the national autonomy of a European country is literally crossing every border. We confess color and stand in solidarity with Ukraine.

Virtual Collections

16 February 2022

Last year we expanded our website with a section named: Browse through the collection. Themes from the history of the pipe and smoking presented in series of attractive pictures. We will continue that section this year with Browse the Documentation, a chapter with flat, mostly paper objects from our library and documentation that are rarely shown. A variety of smoking stationery is presented here: advertisements for tobacco pipes or cigars, covers of famous books about pipes, posters, memorabilia from pipe smoking clubs, but also something as trivial as pipe bags. In short, a surprising  but colourful selection of contemporary images of the smoking culture. Shows nicely how diverse the collection of a pipe museum is. Follow this link: https://pipemuseum.nl/en/sub/documentatie

Super specialized article

9 February 2022

Under the peculiar title Via glazed tips and bouts lacqués to the 275, Don Duco published an article about one specific pipe model, namely the well-known lacquered tip, or the “275” as the pipe is called according to the catalogue. The story describes step by step the development over almost two centuries of the pipe with a half-long bent stem, invented in England, produced in France and later copied in Gouda. A shape that, despite its English origin, was ultimately seen as specifically Dutch. A fascinating story about trivial shifts in the market that only the connoisseur can decipher. Link: https://pipemuseum.nl/en/article