Sep 6
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Advantages

  • Thematic Museum
  • Live Demonstrations
  • Digitized data
  • Samples of tobaccos, papers, containers, and advertising art
  • Library and accessible archives

Seven Components

  • Cultivation and harvest of the crop: the rural process
  • Manufacture of the product and entrepreneurship
  • Tonga commercialization
  • Samples of tobaccos, papers, containers, and advertising art
  • Business: the merchants and entrepreneurs
  • Labor: unionization and syndicalism of workers
  • Industry: manufacture and shipping of product

Live presentations


The tobacco museum, by preserving the history and cultural heritage of the industry, strives to revive the art and craftsmanship of cigarette making, a typical process that vanished in midcentury. The Tobacco museum of Kavala is a unique and modern institution that offers a unique experience, probably the only one in Europe or Asia that continues the practice of the traditional art of cigarette making. Volunteers and interns, utilizing viable equipment, demonstrate the techniques of curing and wrapping tobacco.

 

Tobacco exhibition samples


Experienced and trained personnel demonstrate the traditional techniques of an obsolete industry. Samples of various international tobaccos, wrapping papers, and promotional material are available.

 

Archives (19th -20th centuries)


Donations of archives and machinery to the museum include the following: Greek Tobacco Exporters Federation and National Tobacco Merchants of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. The museum intends to retain and preserve these contributions and make them available to the public.

 

Library


Sources and documentation currently include: photography, books, brochures, pamphlets, and periodicals (old and new, Greek and foreign). The holdings are especially valuable for the history of tobacco in Greece, international trade and commerce, and local, regional, national and European history.

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