Musée du Fumeur

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The Musée du Fumeur was founded in 2001 by Michka Seeliger and Tigrane Hadengue. It brings together plants, works of art and items linked to a traditional practice: smoking. Demonstrating the change in behaviour over the centuries, these collections will enable you to reflect upon the act of smoking, which was first brought over from the Americas by Christopher Columbus and five centuries later it has become a worldwide phenomenon. Everyday items used for smoking from different places and eras are displayed. For example, fragile clay pipes dating back to the 17th century, copper pipes that the Chinese used to carry on their belts to smoke opium, long tobacco leaves hanging from a drying rack, 17 cm apart, like they do in the Périgord, cigar moulds, snuffboxes, a Sioux peace pipe, Tibetan lighters, etc (see attached inventory). The museum also displays numerous engravings, dating between the 17th and 20th centuries, by Gavarni, Martinet, Pia, Valerio, Cheret, Gérôme and many others. The ‘plantarium’, an enclosed area which recreates the natural conditions needed for growing tobacco, allows you to observe the growth of tobacco plants all year round, from the time the seeds are sown until they blossom. A path labeled from A to Z, reflects the new clear and informative structure of the permanent collection: 26 themes with captions and illustrations create a panorama of the smoker through different centuries and cultures. Musée du Fumeur © DR Musée du Fumeur © DR Musée du Fumeur © DR Musée du Fumeur © DR Musée du Fumeur © DR Enseigne du Musée du Fumeur © DR Find out more about this venue ViewpointNCArchitectural style1900CollectionsAnthropologie, Antiquités, Arts et traditions populaires, Curiosités, Ethnographie, Gravures, Histoire, Instruments et objets d'art, Lithographies, Littérature, Objets courants, Objets d'art, Objets de la vie quotidienne, Objets publicitaires, Photographie, Plantes, Publicité, Baroque (XVIe - XVIIe), Rococo (XVIIIe), Néoclassicisme (XVIIIe - XIXe), Romantisme (XVIIIe - XIXe), Réalisme (XIXe), Impressionnisme (XIXe), Symbolisme (XIXe), Fauvisme (XXe), Cubisme (XXe), Modernisme (XXe) , Expressionisme (XXe), Futurisme (XXe), Dadaisme (XXe), Surréalisme (XXe), L'abstraction (XXe), Mouvement (XXe), Contemporain (XXe - XXIe)GardenNC Statute Privé Non-profit association (under the Law of 1901)

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