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18-474: The museum is located in the center of Eskişehir on Atatürk Boulevard at 39°45′57″N 30°30′48″E  /  39.76583°N 30.51333°E  / 39.76583; 30.51333 . The street to the east of the museum is Müze Street named after the museum. The museum was initially established in 1966 in the Kurşunlu Complex , a religious complex building, which is about 1 km (0.62 mi) east of

36-510: A meerschaum pipe, after lighting it with a vesta . In 1958, the popular American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, season 2 , episode 9, featured third-grader Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and his friend Larry Mondello smoking a meerschaum pipe recently sent from Germany as a gift to Beaver's father. They are discovered because of the telltale discoloration of the pipe's bowl. In the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms campaign setting,

54-436: A pipe, the natural nodules are first scraped to remove the red earthy matrix, then dried, again scraped and polished with wax. The crudely shaped masses thus prepared are turned and carved, smoothed with glass-paper , heated in wax or stearine , and finally polished with bone-ash . Carved Turkish meerschaum products were traditionally made in manufacturing centers such as Vienna . Since the 1970s, though, Turkey has banned

72-559: Is also an elephant tusk in the natural history section of the museum. Kur%C5%9Funlu Mosque and Complex#Social complex Kurşunlu Mosque and Complex ( Turkish : Kurşunlu Camii ve Külliyesi ) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque and its social complex in Odunpazarı district of Eskişehir , Turkey. The mosque and the complex were commissioned by the Ottoman vizier Çoban Mustafa Pasha , and were built between 1517 and 1525. Although

90-399: Is determined as the gourd grows by placing small blocks under the stem, forcing it into a gentle curve. The mature gourd is cut and dried, then fitted with a cork gasket to receive a meerschaum bowl. The finished pipe offers one of the coolest, driest smokes available. In Somalia and Djibouti , meerschaum is used to make the dabqaad , a traditional incense burner. The mineral is mined in

108-650: Is reserved for the administration and auxiliary services such as library, laboratory, photo lab, etc. The basement of the two other blocks are stock rooms. The ground floor of one block is a conference hall and the ground floor of the other block is multipurpose art gallery. The museum exhibition halls are situated in the upper floors of both blocks. The exhibited items span Neolithic , Chalcolithic , Bronze Age , Hittite , Phrygian , Hellenistic , Roman , Byzantine and Ottoman periods. There are marble sculptures and figurines, steles , earthenware, metallic and glass gadgets for daily use, idols, ornaments, weapons etc. There

126-428: The narthex in the architectural style of the classical period. The narthex is topped with five domes. The column capitals are decorated with muqarnas ornaments. To the mosque belong a shadirvan , a zawiya , a harem , an imaret , a mausoleum of Mevlevi Order sheikhs and two caravanserais . A building of social complex, having an inscription, is an annex to the mosque. It consists of seven sections. One of

144-568: The Black Sea and is rather suggestive of sea foam (hence the German origin of the name, as well as the French name for the same substance, écume de mer ). The first recorded use of meerschaum for making pipes was around 1723. It quickly became prized as the perfect material for providing a cool, dry, flavorful smoke. Because of the porous nature of meerschaum, moisture and tobacco tar are drawn deep into

162-405: The smectite clay: stevensite . In the 2004 film National Treasure , the second clue to the treasure is found hidden inside a meerschaum pipe. Later on in the film, the tobacco holder of said pipe acts as a key to opening the treasure vault. In Samuel Beckett 's 1957 one-act play Endgame , while Hamm is narrating the story of the day when he adopted Clov, he mentions how he was smoking

180-418: The architect is unknown, it is believed that it was designed by Acem Ali, who was the head architect before Mimar Sinan (c. 1489/1490 – 1588). The mosque is named for its lead-covered ( Turkish : Kurşunlu ) dome. The mosque is a single-dome, quadratic-plan building having stone masonry walls. The inside of the dome is decorated with hand-carved figures. Marble columns and capitals support pointed-arches of

198-411: The art market. Access to the museum is free of charge. In the museum, handmade tobacco pipes made of meerschaum and meerschaum pipes are on display. Meerschaum pipe A meerschaum pipe is a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite , also known as meerschaum. Meerschaum ( German pronunciation: [ˈmeːɐ̯ʃaʊ̯m] , German for "sea foam") is sometimes found floating on

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216-513: The current location. In 1974, the museum moved to its own building. As this building became insufficient, a new building was constructed, which was financed and donated by ETİ Food Industry, a cookie producer based in Eskişehir. On 28 May 2011, the museum was reopened in its new and larger building. The total area of the museum, including the building and the yard, is 3,000 m (32,000 sq ft). The building consists of three blocks. One block

234-459: The district of El Buur , the latter of which serves as a center for quarrying . El Buur is also the place of origin of the local pipe-making industry. Imitations are made in plaster of Paris and other preparations. The soft, white, earthy mineral from Långbanshyttan , in Värmland , Sweden , known as aphrodite ( Greek : sea foam ), is closely related to meerschaum. It is a synonym for

252-446: The exportation of meerschaum nodules, trying to set up a local meerschaum industry. The once famous manufacturers have therefore disappeared and European pipe producers turned to others sources for their pipes. Another variation of meerschaum pipe is the calabash pipe made iconic by William Gillette 's stage portrayal of Sherlock Holmes . The calabash is a gourd similar to a squash , grown specifically for use in pipes. The shape

270-407: The meerschaum to crack. Meerschaum does not burn and floats in water. It softens when wet, but hardens again when dried. Meerschaum, which expels moisture due to its porous structure, is therefore used in pipe making.When smoked, meerschaum pipes gradually change color, and old meerschaum pipes will turn incremental shades of yellow, orange, red, and amber from the base on up. When prepared for use as

288-423: The porosity and sweet-smoking qualities of meerschaum along with the heat-absorbing qualities and durability of briar. However, meerschaum must be cool before a pipe can be cleaned, and briar must be rested after a few days of smoking, so the combination comes with some of the drawbacks of both materials. The thinness of the lining can affect how long a pipe lasts and some smokers do not clean out their pipes, causing

306-413: The sections is transformed into a market of arts in Eskişehir. Traditional Turkish arts handcrafted in the market, including primarily meerschaum craftsmanship, calligraphy , paper marbling , manuscript illumination , carpet weaving rugs and silver made crafts and embroidery , can be observed and art items can be acquired. The Eskişehir Meerschaum Museum is situated inside the social complex across

324-513: The stone. Meerschaum became a premium substitute for the clay pipes of the day and remains prized to this day, although since the mid-1800s briar pipes have become the most common pipes for smoking. The use of briar wood , beginning in the early 1820s, greatly reduced demand for clay pipes and, to a lesser degree, meerschaum pipes. The qualities of meerschaum were combined with those of briar pipes by lining briar pipes with meerschaum bowls. Some smokers believe that meerschaum-lined briar pipes give

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