The presentation of clay pipes in the Gouda museums over seventy years

Zeventig jaar Goudse pijpen in de Goudse musea

By Don Duco

Abstract: At the occasion of the sixth centennary of Gouda as town an exhibition was held that lead to the founding of a city museum. In the presentation also attention was payed to the history of the local pipe industry, famous in Holland and the world. Among the first items the former Gouda guild possessions were exhibited. This article describes the forming of the collection, the move from the Arti Legi building to the beautifull Moriaan Museum on Westhaven. It deals with its respective directors and curators such as Bert Helbers, Jan Schouten, Josine de Bruyn Kops and Nicolette Sluijter. Also it describes the exhibits in course of the years and the attention that was payed to the collection of clay tobacco pipes. As museum De Moriaan was finaly transformed into a pharmaceutical museum, the pipes being brought back to the city museum on Oosthaven, once a hospital known as Het Catharina Gasthuis, now named museumgoudA.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2008.

Illustrations

1. Newspaper clipping on the reopening of the pipe exhibition in museumgoudA, Summer 2007.

2. The impressive facade of De Moriaan building along Westhaven in Gouda, Holland.

3. Letter from D.A. Goedewaagen on a pipe donated to the museum.

4. Visit of queen Juliana to museum De Moriaan .

5. Admission ticket to museum De Moriaan.

6. Poster of the exhibition Gouda / was eens een / pijpenstad, Summer 1983. Design by Tjaard Jager.

7. View in the exhibiton Gouda / was eens een / pijpenstad, Summer 1983.

8. One of the numerous newspaper clippings on the topic to close or not to close the museum De Moriaan yes or no.

9. The presentation in De Moriaan showing the Gouda pipe history in a modern way, 1988.

All illustrations from Pijpenkabinet documentation, Amsterdam.

Notes

1. Krant van Gouda, 13-07-2007.

2. Dr. Jan Schouten, Gouda van sluis tot sluis, De geschiedenis van Gouda in de negentiende eeuw, Den Haag, 1977, p 138.

3. D.H. Duco, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van de pijpennijverheid in Gouda, Amsterdam, 1976, G1872-06-03.

4. G1911.

5. G1876-07-26.

6. G1875-02-08.

7. G1891-07-06.

8. G1911.

9. G1875-1877, G1877-02-12, G1877-03-06, G1890 c..

10. G1874-1943.

11. G1897-04-15, G1897-08-07.

12. G1954-05-08.

13. G1931-06-23.

14. G1934-06.

15. G1938-03-08.

16. G1939-02-08.

17. G1940-08-10.

18. The material possibly originate from Ruhla, Thüringen and has never been used for production in Gouda.

19. G1941-06-11.

20. G1944-06.

21. G1934-12-21.

22. G1944-1956.

23. De Nederkandse Musea, ’s-Gravenhage, 1954, p 119.

24. G1957-1976.

25. G1983-07-08, Goudsche Courant, 17-08-1983, Rien Wilpert stands for Dr. Jan Schouten.

26. Goudsche Courant, 06-03-1984. Rijn en Gouwe, 22-10-1987.

27. G1988-02-19.

28. Holland Silhouet, 18-10-1989. Leidse Post, 18-10-1989.

29. Algemeen Dagblad, 24-01-1992.

30. Goudsche Courant, 19-09-1992.

31. This exhibition tour started as “Ik rook Oranje” (I smoke Orange) in Palace The Loo and continued as “Vorstelijke pijpen” (Royal pipes) in forDutch and two foreign museums, was not on view in Gouda to demomstrate the pover interest for the Gouda pipes in the Gouda museums.

32. Goudsche Courant, 06-07-2004.