You will find out all about ...
- How tobacco conquered the world, following Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas in 1492
- how tobacco is grown
- Wervik tobacco
- tobacco consumption in all its forms (smoking, sniffing and chewing) through many fascinating and intriguing objects
- the relationship between tobacco and smuggling, tobacco and music, tobacco and religion, tobacco and sport, tobacco and eroticism
You visit
- a 17th-century smoking pub
- the pipe gallery, giving an overview from earthenware pipes to meerschaum, porcelain and wooden pipes
- a tobacco shop anno 1930
- the reconstruction of an authentic tobacco manuscript
- a smoking parlour in the 19th century
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