Pipe Museum Amsterdam

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Entrance from the Pipe Museum

The Pipe Museum Amsterdam (proper name: Amsterdam Pipe Museum ; German: Tobacco Pipe Museum ) in Amsterdam , Province of North Holland , was founded in 1969 and was called Pijpenkabinet from 1982 to 2013 . The museum has had its current name since 2013 . It sees itself as an international museum and was subtitled Het Nationale Museum, met international Collectie which has been changed into The Worldwide Culture of Pipe Smoking . The museum has an extensive library and archive .

history

The tobacco pipe collector Don Duco put a collection of clay pipes in Amsterdam in 1969, which was initially considered an archive. This laid the basis for the later museum. The collection expanded over the years and 1975 was the first public exhibition under the name Pijpenkabinet . In 1982 the archive and museum moved to Leiden and stayed there until 1995. In that year the museum moved to Amsterdam on Prinsengracht 488. The building from 1680 in which the Pipe Museum is now housed is a listed building ( Rijksmonument ).

Carved meerschaum pipe, made in United States, 1890 (collection Pijpenkabinet, Amsterdam)
Interior from the Amsterdam Pipe Museum

The museum presents an overview of the "smoking culture" from five continents, from 500 BC. BC to the present and, according to its own statement, has a unique collection of tobacco pipes from, among others, the Netherlands and Europe.

The museum has been managed by the Stichting Pijpenkabinet since 1987 . The pipe collection comprises around 20,000 pipes and has been divided into various categories (brief summary): Archaeological: tobacco pipes found in the Netherlands and surrounding countries. Well-preserved clay pipes from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as porcelain pipes, meerschaum pipes and wooden pipes. Ethnographic: Tobacco pipes from Africa , Central and South America and China . Illustrations and drawings of tobacco pipes: the collection includes more than 2000 objects.

The museum's Smokiana Pipeshop , now called the Amsterdam Pipe Shop , sees itself as a national specialist shop in the field of tobacco pipes and pipe smoking. It is not a commercial shop , but is part of the Stichting Pijpenkabinet . The name Smokiana refers to the book of the same name by the English writer Robert Pritchett. The museum offers a monthly pipe smoking course (“cursus pijproken”). The focus is on the enjoyment of pipe smoking and the maximum taste experience ("maximaale smaakbeleving"). A special service since 2004 has been the repair of tobacco pipes. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Transport links

The museum is located near Leidseplein and can be reached by tram line (Tramlijn, Tram) number 5. Lines 1, 2 and 5 from Amsterdam Central Station, Leidseplein stop.

further reading

  • Benedict Goes: The Intriguing Design of Tobacco Pipes , Leiden, 1993. ISBN 90-70849-19-4 . Catalog of the museum collection, also available in Dutch.
  • DH Duco: De tabakspijp as orange propaganda. Foreword by ZKH Prins Bernhard der Nederlanden. Uitgever: Amsterdam Pipe Museum - Stichting Pijpenkabinet. Amsterdam, 1992. ISBN 90-70849-16-X
  • Aldo Pellisson: The pipe: cultural history and typology for pipe smokers and pipe collectors. Callwey 1988. ISBN 3-7667-0901-1

See also

Web links

Commons : Amsterdam Pipe Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Amsterdam . Pijpenkabinet . Dutch, accessed April 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Information about the Amsterdam Pipe Museum was taken from the museum's website , unless otherwise stated . Dutch, accessed April 11, 2013
  3. ↑ Rijksmonument No. 4581 . Dutch, accessed April 11, 2013
  4. ↑ See: Rick Steves: Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels. Pipemuseum. (Pijpenkabinet). "This small, quirky, classy museum holds 300 years of pipes in a 17th-century canal house." 2011. P. 95. ISBN 978-1-59880-103-3
  5. ↑ Stichting Pijpenkabinet & Smokiana . Dutch, accessed April 11, 2013
  6. ^ Pipe Museum . Information in English. Retrieved April 11, 2013
  7. ↑ The museum writes of 25,000 objects, i.e. pipes and parafernalia such as stands, pictures, devices
  8. ↑ Smokiana Pipeshop . Dutch, accessed April 11, 2011
  9. ↑ Lijn 5 Amsterdam Centraal Station - Amstelveen Stadshart OVNL, accessed on July 17, 2018.

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