Tobacco Museum of Kavala is a vital thematic and technological museum known for its originality in its way of presenting the significant past of Kavala, when the city (at the beginning of the 20th century) dominated on the tobacco exportation and so called “Mecca of Tobacco”.

Moreover the rich tobacco archive that is kept in the Museum recalls memories of the history of the labor men, of the first known strike took place in the city in 1879 during the Ottoman Dominance of Kavala, of the history of Greek refugees from Minor Asia that assimilated as workers in tobacco warehouses and also the concordial living and working together of many people who belonged in different ethnologic and religious communities and who are above all citizens of Kavala, the northern Greek Cosmopolis. Adding to this, Tobacco Museum develops the creation of tobacco exhibition samples, which used for advertising globally the fine quality of Greek tobacco. For those reasons Kavala’s Tobacco Museum provokes and welcomes visitors to take a glimpse on Greek tobacco history.

J. Vyzikas, President of the Museum’s Directive Board