Niemeyer museum on the Amstel

2 December 2024

In the autumn of 1964, now sixty years ago, the tobacco museum of the Niemeyer company opened on the Amstel near the famous white drawbridge. It presented a nice overview of tobacco use in the Netherlands in  the beautifully restored basement. That was sixty years ago. We now know that the museum moved to Groningen ten years after opening and was even closed for good in 2010. Most of the collection was soon sold off. Fortunately, our museum acquired an important part, so that lot returned to Amsterdam.

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