Paris Delices City Guide

Musée du Fumeur - The Smoking Museum

For the first time, a free and permanent exhibit, set in a welcoming Parisian venue, gathers objects commonly used by smokers in different places or times, live plants and works of art revolving around smoking, a practice common to every continent.

A sieve to extract resin from hemp mingles with tobaccco plants hanging from a drying rack. Sinsemilla buds mix with an ornate copper pipe once used in China for smoking opium.

A couple of fragile 17th century clay pipes can be seen behind glass, next to period engravings showing the remains of identical ones scattered between the feet of early tobacco smokers. A snuffbox spills out snuff a hundred years old ; blond and slender Virginia tobacco contrasts with short dark leaves from Santo Domingo.

Musée du Fumeur. 7, rue Pache 75011
Metro : Voltaire
Bus : 46, 56, 61, 69
Telephone : +33 (0)1 46 59 05 51
www.museedufumeur.net

Open daily (except Monday) from 2 pm to 7 pm
Entrance : 4 €

Source : Musée du Fumeur