Cloves and Miscellaneous @museum.de

Did you ever hear about smoking clove cigarettes? They are common in Indonesia. It is said that the biggest part of the yearly harvest of cloves is processed in the production of cigarettes.
In our region, cloves are used as a natural remedy against toothache, because cloves have both an antibacterial and an anaesthetic effect.

In the past, Indonesian merchants brought ships pinned of cloves to the local importers as a gift. Here, you see a small treasure that is hard to find today.

Walk around the showcase and have a look at an old Hummel porcelain collection of spice containers showing how our grandparents kept the precious spices in the kitchen.

Spice trading board games are played all around the world. You can admire some of them here in our showcase.

Old marking stencils, seal pliers, box scrapers and locking irons give an insight into the time when spices were still stored and refined in the “Speicherstadt”.