Amsterdam Pipes Museum

The Pipe Museum presents a collection of items used in the past and now for smoking tobacco. They come from the last 2500 years and were made on different continents. In addition to the pipes themselves, you can see tobacco tools and machines as well as graphic works showing the process of smoking pipes in various eras.

The museum was established in 1969. It changed its headquarters several times. It moved to the current one in 1995. His collection has the status of a national monument. The collection of pipes and other smoking-related items counts over 25,000 items, of which 2,000 are exhibited on a permanent exhibition.

You can see pipes from the pre-Columbian era, wooden and clay pipes discovered during archeological excavations, modern pipes made of wood, porcelain and glass in Europe and other continents. Many of them are richly decorated. There are also opium smoking pipes from China. In addition, tobacco boxes, mouthpieces, tissue paper, tobacco workshop machines, and tools for cleaning and making pipes are presented.