New look Museum Of Drugs

Please visit the new look website, www.museumofdrugs.com and let us know what you think. We now have Twitter, MySpace and Facebook pages as well as all the usual exhibits, films and music that you have come to love from your favourite history of substance use site. New uploads every day.

Twitter

Hi - the Museum is now on Twitter @museumofdrugs

Please join us there if you haven't already!!

Legalize drugs to lower usage (The Young Turks)

Donald Kimfull

The Museum Of Drugs Paraphernalia And Related Antiquities has at long last tracked down an image of Donald Kimfull as he appeared in later life, reinvented as Joseph Dean of Dean's Bar Tangiers. According to a number of sources, including April Ashley, Britain's first person to undergo a successful gender realignment operation, Dean of Dean's Bar was allegedly none other than the elusive character involved in the supply of cocaine and opium to the late Billie Carleton 1918. Avoiding the inquest into the actresses death, Kimfull went on to become the proprietor of the Bar in Tangiers, host to the literary and art set alongside international spies. The bar went on to become the template for the movie Casablanca.

Museum Band of The Year Award

This year we see the launch of our Band of the Year Award, the prestigious music industry event of the year. We are celebrating winners, Codeine Velvet Club, a new band that sees the creative genius of Lou Hickey and the Fratelli's Frontman John Lawler.
In second place came Terry Lyn for her albulm Kingston Logic, with it's rally against the IMF.
Due out soon will be the latest edition of the Imbiber Magazine with mor information. February will also see the scheduling of the Somerlayton Antiques Roadshow, where we hope to see the Museum Curator lurking in the background in a vain attempt to get the collection assessed and valued.

New Look Museum

PLease visit the Museum to see our new look. Cleaner, crisper, less Emo.
Let us know your thoughts!!

New Exhibits

The Museum is delighted to present two new exhibits. The first was generously donated to the Museum by a group of beneficiaries, a print from 1946 of a Picasso painting entitled 'Woman Drinking Absinthe'. The second exhibit is an opium jar. This exhibit features a jade lid with cork insert upon which is fixed a bone spoon for partaking opium as a snuff. The Museum has tested remnants within the jar using modern scientific methods and have evidenced the existence of morphine.
Please visit the exhibits through teh exhibits section of the site www.museumofdrugs.com/exhibits