Acquisition in meerschaum

17 mai 2014

The collections of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum are expanding step by step. This week an elderly couple donated the museum a splendid tobacco pipe that was in their family for two generations. This meerschaum pipe is finely carved with a human skull hold by a hand. The work is done by a skilled and artistic workman, showing the finest details, which makes the pipe worthy to our museum collection. We are very grateful to the donators for their contribution. Do you have a pipe yourself, as beautiful or not? Take in consideration to leave it to our museum to have it preserved for future generations.

Antique shisha lounge

9 mai 2014

The print collection of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum is rich in all sorts of smokers from foreign countries. In this album we selected smokers who enjoy a water pipe, hookah, shisha or what they wish to call it. The shisha is now very popular in Amsterdam as in many other west-European countries, but is in fact intended to smoke in warmer climates. Apart from Turkey, Egypt and the Middle-East the water pipe is also loved by smokers in various countries in Africa.

Our outpost in Arnhem

5 mai 2014

Ever since 2004 the Amsterdam Pipe Museum has a permanent exhibition in the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnhem, we could even call it our annex or outpost. It is a special exhibit with its own atmosphere. It shows a worldwide overview of tobacco pipes in the unexpected ambiance of a post-modern gentlemen’s room. Visitors with some time can sit down in a comfortable Chesterfield sofa and watch a video on a 1950’s television set. Our curator tells why he has chosen these particular objects from the museum’s rich collection for this special exhibition. The presentation "Spaarstation Dingenliefde" (Tram station ‘Love for Objects’) will be on view in Arnhem for the coming years. If you have seen it, please let us know!