Founded in 1987, Amsterdam’s Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum traces cannabis through history, medicine, art and everyday culture. Its collection includes more than 9,000 objects, while the nearby Hemp Gallery explores industrial hemp’s long and varied uses.
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Ben Dronkers and Ed Rosenthal opened the Cannabis Info Museum in Amsterdam in 1987; its closure shortly after opening became a nationally reported dispute over whether a cannabis museum was lawful.
The museum added a second Amsterdam venue, the Hemp Gallery, in 2009 to focus on hemp’s history and industrial uses.
The museum reports a collection of more than 9,000 items, spanning subjects from medicinal cannabis and botanical imagery to textiles, pipes and hemp tools.
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At Oudezijds Achterburgwal 148, the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum occupies a place where the story of cannabis has never been only botanical. It is also a story about public display, law, commerce and the line between education and promotion. In 1987, Ben Dronkers and American writer Ed Rosenthal opened the Cannabis Info Museum to share their collections and interest in the plant.
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