The Smoking Museum of Paris

For the first time in Paris,a permanent exhibition collects objects, plants and works that testify  a widespread practice in all continents: smoking. The typical objects of the smoker, in  different times and places, are mixed with various plants.

The plants that are smoked every day are grown and displayed in a Plantarium, a place that shows the steps of drying and fermentation of the leaves, operations required before you can inhale the smoke. Located in the Bastille district, a few steps from the Rue de la Roquette, the Smoking  Museum  is a convivial place dedicated to this ancestral practice.

In 2001, two editors, Michka Seeliger and Tigranes Hadengue, transformed an old butcher in a museum dedicated to tobacco. In here you'll find numerous models of pipe, narguilés in an atmosphere that is intoxicated by the smell of tobacco dried leaves.

Not to be missed is a gallery of drawings and paintings of smokers who witness  the evolution of the uses and legislation of tobacco. A small area of the museum is dedicated to books, magazines, comic books and CDs devoted to the world of smoking. Find accommodation in Paris and visit the Smoking Museum.