Museums

The portal allows visitors to quickly and easily find specialized collections on the theme of tobacco throughout Europe.

Participating museums showcase collections which feature the smoking culture and the material heritage of tobacco use. They illustrate smoking rituals, the pipe, tobacco and its cultivation, or the paraphernalia around the use of opium , hash, snuff  or tobacco chewing. Some are specialized museums dedicated to this theme, in other cases, it is a department within a general museum with a broader objective.

The participating museums, recognizable by the photo of the museum building, put a selection of their collection online on this portal and provide access to their library. In this way they contribute to the development of the Pipe-Portal and share the costs for its structural maintenance.

By clicking on one of the photos below you get all basic information on the chosen museum: address, opening hours, etc. You can then choose to look inside its collection, search for titles in the library and even read articles online.

Museums

The institutions below do not (yet) participate in the Pipe-Portal, but they do have historical tobacco-related collections or are of importance in another aspect of the history of smoking culture.

Nationaal Tabaksmuseum (Belgium, Wervik)
Jánský Vrch Castle (Czech Republic, Javorník)
Musée du Tabac (France, Bergerac)
Bibliothèque de la Ville de Grasse (France, Grasse)
Musée de la Pipe , Musée de la Pipe et du Diamant (France, Saint-Claude)
Musée de l’hôtel Sandelin (France, Saint-Omer)
Museum Bünde, Deutsches Tabak- und Zigarrenmuseum (Germany, Bünde)
Greek Tobacco Museum (Greece, Kavala)
Hungarian National Museum (Hungary, Budapest)
Blaskovich Mansion Museum (Hungary, Tápiószele)
Museo della Pipa (Italy, Gavirate (Varese))
Kakegawa Ninomaru Museum (Japan, Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture)
Tobacco & Salt Museum (Japan, Tokyo)
State Hermitage Museum (Russian Federation, St Petersburg)
The Tobacco Museum , Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana and Tobačna Ljubljana (Slovenia, Ljubljana)
Museu Frederic Marès, Collecció de pipes (Spain, Barcelona)
Swedisch Tobacco Museum, Snus- och Tändsticksmuseum (Sweden, Stockholm)
Amsterdam Pipe Museum (The Netherlands, Amsterdam)
Broseley Pipeworks, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (United Kingdom, Ironbridge, Shropshire)