On front page of Cigar Journal
18 mars 2016
The Amsterdam Pipe Museum exhibition on the pipe designs by Jean Perron is well received by the press. Within two days the news was on the front-page of one of the largest online smoking magazines, the Cigar Journal. This American produced magazine is spread among cigar aficionados and other tobacco consumers all over the world. A more specific target group was reached through the website of the Pipe Club of Italy, that published the exhibition in the same week. We can conclude that we did well by sending out our press review internationally.
PermalinkFound exactly half a century ago
16 mars 2016
This decorated clay pipe bowl was about two hundred years old at the moment it was found by Don Duco in March 1966. Just an accidental found in deposited soil in the Westerleestraat in Amsterdam. At that moment it was the most beautiful found from this piece of land. Today it is exactly 50 years ago that the founder of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum did this find, and consequently the most ancient object in the museum. After a few years this pipe has been exhibited for five years in the Pijpenkamer at Frederiksplein in Amsterdam. Later it was on loan to the State Museum for Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) in Leiden, where it was part of the permanent presentation. These must have been the finest hours for this small pipe bowl; since 1993 it is well-kept but hidden in the museum reserves.
PermalinkJean Perron rediscovered
14 mars 2016
The discovery of a cardboard case holding eighty pages of hand drawn designs urged us to show this recent acquisition in a small exhibition in the Amsterdam Pipe Museum. It is a tribute to a talented pipe maker and artist who, after one and a half century, appears from the oblivion of history by this recent rediscovery. His name Jean Perron appears as a tiny signature on one of the pages, that show his artistic talent in his fine drawings. He was active as a pipe designer and carver in Paris in the 1860-1875 period. The discovery of this case gives a fully new insight in the French production of meerschaum pipes. The exhibition "Jean Perron rediscovered" ends May 7 2016.
PermalinkA personalized entree ticket
11 mars 2016
Especially the ardent pipe smoker and enthusiast pipe collector will look forward to a visit of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Today we received such a visitor. His loving spouse made him as a gift at home a self-created entree ticket for our museum. Understandable if you live as far as New Zealand. As you can imagine the visit of the family was a great success.
PermalinkCultural blog
8 mars 2016
The young cultural minded crowd has a new blog that informs about art, culture, music and film. It is called Cleeft. One of the reporters visited the Amsterdam Pipe Museum and wrote a nice text entitled "Museum extraordinaire". That is exactly what it is, isn't it? A original and artistic photo shoot illustrates the story. You find the whole article on https://www.cleeft.nl/kunst/fotoreportage_museum-extraordinaire-amsterdam-pipe-museum
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