Article on Cameroon tobacco pipes

20 juin 2017

Our curator Don Duco published an article on figural tobacco pipes from Cameroon in the yearbook of the Society for Friends of Ethnographic Art. The Amsterdam Pipe Museum houses a large collection of these pipes, of which sixteen were selected. They represent the styles in which these pipes were made showing the craftsmanship of the Grassland people. We hope this article will generate a larger interest in the pipe as a form of applied art amongst the ethnographic collectors.

Buy your museum card on our website

16 juin 2017

Over a million people in our country have got one: the museum-card. This simple card gives free access to over 500 registered museums all over the Netherlands. For that reason it is a must-have to get into these treasure houses of unique artwork and historic objects to find out their stories. The museum-card is for sale in our museum. From today on it is also possible to order the card directly through our website (visitor’s page). We hope you will use our link when buying.

Museum Register

15 juin 2017

Our museum is listed as 'registered museum', meaning that all functions, both public and behind the screens, are checked and in good order: the board, finances, policy, collection plans, etc. Every five years the whole list is rechecked during the so-called reassessment. This time the assessment took a long time because the bureau doing this was overworked. But, this week our museum was re-listed in the national museum register to be found at www.museumregisternederland.nl. Also there is a formal diploma.

Amsterdam Pipe Museum acquires a pipe with cannons

9 juin 2017

Recently our museum managed to buy in Paris a most exceptional pipe: the marshal’s pipe. This meerschaum pipe from about 1830 is fitted with a full silver lid holding a cannon, with eight gun barrels around. If the pipe is in use, smoke comes from the cannons all around. This kind of exclusive tobacco pipes were made as a gift to high officers in the French army. For these man in uniform such high-end pipes were one of the rare items to distinguish themselves. This exceptional acquisition will be showcased in the museum the coming months.