New Director Pijpenkabinet

27 décembre 2012

Patricia Olsthoorn (1975) is the new director of the Pijpenkabinet museum. She has been recruited to give a boost to the professionalization of the Amsterdam museum and to increase the its visibility . Olsthoorn about her appointment: "I think it is a challenge to bring this specialist and worldwide collection back to the public's attention. The museum wants to improve its national and international profile. I will tackle the changes that accompany a professionalization process like this with passion and confidence." Patricia Olsthoorn was for years staff member at Museum Gouda. After a renewed study, specializing in cultural entrepreneurship and CRM at Erasmus University, she has advised companies in embracing these aspects. Olsthoorn combines her position at the Pijpenkabinet with her tasks as advisor cultural entrepreneurship within the cultural sector.

Light your pipe

19 décembre 2012

Under this name the Pijpenkabinet joins the Amsterdam Light Festival that lightens up our city this winter. Our museum has its own interpretation of the word light by using it in the sense of lighting a pipe. The museum shows the antique instruments that are at the base of light and fire. In two show- windows you can see fire-pans, braziers, tongues and tinder pistols, tinder boxes, but also pyrogenic instruments. Of course we also show the modern lighter. From December 19, 2013 until February14 2013 the exhibition Light your pipe can be seen.