Upcoming Museum Night

28 October 2024

On Saturday evening, November 2, it's that time again. The Museum Night starts at seven o'clock in the evening. Our museum is one of the 70 locations that can be visited. Our regular program consists of the speed tours, this year supplemented with the possibility to hold pipes of different materials in your own hands. Feel the difference between clay, meerschaum and wood, and get an explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of each pipe. Finally, there is our presentation about the pipe finds from Suriname, on display for the first time in our own museum. By the way, the tickets for this event are unfortunately already sold out!

News on Facebook

22 October 2024

Did you know that we post different messages on Facebook than on our own website? Facebook and also Instagram respond to current events in the world, for which we search for a suitable pipe or other object from our collection. For example, during the Amsterdam Dance Event we had a post with dancers for several days in a row, such as these Biedermeier polka dancers on a porcelain pipe bowl. So follow us on Facebook for new inspiration. Look at https://www.facebook.com/AmsterdamPipeMuseum/

Romantic images

14 October 2024

The ultimate romantic feeling about smoking comes from the drawings and paintings of Willem de Farmas Testas. Teylers Museum shows a number of beautiful pipe smokers, drawn and painted by this Dutch painter. As a 24-year-old artist, he made a trip to Egypt in 1854, where he saw many customs unknown to him, such as smoking the water pipe and men with the extremely long Ottoman pipe, the chibouk. We now owe his beautiful drawings to that trip, valuable for getting an idea of ​​the traditional smoking culture in a North African country. On display in Teylers Haarlem until February 9, 2025.

Birthday

1 October 2024

Today we celebrate our 55th birthday! Not with big activities, but just with birthday cake in the museum for everyone who comes by. The previous lustrum celebration was cancelled due to Corona, we only thought about this memorable birthday a few days ago. So, organizing a party was no longer an option. Can we agree that the next lustrum, our sixtieth birthday, can be celebrated in style?