History of Smoking

The museum has a sizeable collection of unusual paintings, prints, drawings and photographs of men and women smoking.
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a drawing of a man brushing his teeth in front of a framed painting on the wall
Picasso, Paris and hashish
Two Picassos are part of the permanent collection of our museum in Barcelona.
an old truck with graffiti on it parked in front of a building
Mellow Yellow
In 1972 Amsterdam’s first coffeeshop was opened in a squatted bakery.
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson of Broad City with their custom engraved PAX 2! Skin Care, Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, Broad City, Good Skin, Hair Straightener, Good Things, Skin, Photographer
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson of Broad City with their custom engraved PAX 2!
an illustration of two people laying on a couch with the caption la vie literature
Literary Life
Un écrivain qui a depuis dix ans l’intention de travailler (A writer who has been intending to work for ten years) was made by lithographer and caricaturist Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers (1804-1859).
a black and white drawing of three people sitting at a table with one person holding something in his hand
The Smokers of Adriaen Brouwer
This nineteenth century etching is a reproduction of a painting by Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer from ca. 1636.
an old fashion illustration shows women in dresses sitting on couches and talking to each other
Hasheesh Hell on Fifth Avenue
In the 1880s smoking hashish was legal, but not generally accepted. This image was published in the Illustrated Police News on December 2nd, 1876.