An impressive Easter egg
31 March 2024
The egg that we exhibit around Easter is one of royal class. Firstly the size: 22 cm. high. Point two: silver mounting, even with a double band halfway that enables the top half to open as a lid. It is a tobacco jar, made by the Dutch silversmith Jurriën Schiff, just before the turn of the last century. He used a real ostrich egg as the starting point for his unique tobacco pot. Mounting wondrous objects from nature is a tradition that dates back to the sixteenth century, when monarchs established a Kunstkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities with these types of rarities. This impressive unique piece can now be seen in the Amsterdam Pipe Museum.
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30 March 2024
Today the Dutch Museum Week 2024 starts, March 30, so lend your Museum Card to a friend, neighbor, your children or anyone you want. Then someone else can also experience how unexpected, fascinating or inspiring a visit to museums is. Recommend in the first place the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, which is in the best-rated top 10 in Tripadvisor!
PermalinkDuco's manual available again
23 March 2024
The much-cited handbook on the Dutch clay pipe (1987) by Don Duco has been sold out since 2010. By a wonderful stroke of luck we found six copies, incorrectly stored more than ten years ago and still in new condition. For those who have been looking for this book for years, now is the chance to get their hands on it. The price is Euro 50. First ordered, first served!
Click here to order: https://pipeshop.nl/product/handboek-voor-nederlandse-kleipijp/
Pre-announcement Museum Week
23 March 2024
Once again this year you can use someone else’s Museum Card to go to a museum of your choice. The Museum Card is a personal card, hence the portrait photo on it. But from March 30 to April 6 you can borrow someone else's card and visit museums for free. That is the campaign of Museum Week 2024. Make use of this temporally offer, also by lending your card to a friend. We hope that many visitors will then choose to visit the Amsterdam Pipe Museum.
PermalinkTobacco back on the shelf
12 March 2024
Good news for the pipe smoker well before spring. Pipe tobacco is back on the shelves in our museum shop. After we sold out the stock during the corona period, we have no longer purchased new tobacco. Now that clients to the museum shop is back on track, it is time to get our pipe tobacco range in order. According to the current rules: neatly in a locked cupboard. As a visitor you don't see the tobacco, but it is available! Don't hesitate to ask.
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