World Pipe Smoking Championship

12 octobre 2025

This coming weekend, the World Pipe Smoking Championship will take place in Eindhoven. For this occasion, pipe smokers from all over the world will travel to our country for this competition in slow smoking. Numerous participants will combine their trip with a visit to our museum. One of them is Andrew Aoba, none other than the Chief Director of the Pipe Club of Japan. We showed him some of the typical Japanese kiseru pipes displayed in our study. Walking past the library's bookcases, with 50 meters of books, he suddenly stopped and pointed to one particular volume, saying, "That's my book!" That's worth a photo: the author with his own book from our library.

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