Another successful night

3 November 2024

It remains a unique event, Museum Night Amsterdam, where tens of thousands of young people are mobilized to visit museums in a single evening. This year, for the first time in years, we had more than 500 visitors in one night. Thanks to the help of the volunteers, that was manageable. Even the distribution over the evening went naturally. All these people were introduced to a museum they did not know yet, including some young people who literally look out onto our facade from their student rooms!

Pipe bowls with turquoise

1 November 2024

In the coming months, we will be showing two exceptional bowls of water pipes in our much loved central display case. They are the crowning glory of the water pipe, but in great luxury. In a particularly refined way, an abundant number of cut turquoises have been set into both bowls, which lightens up the pipe bowl and in fact the whole hookah. This work is typical of Persia in the second half of the nineteenth century, although the use of turquoise goes back to an older tradition of the Quajar dynasty. These unique water pipe bowls will remain on display in the central display case until the end of the year.