[2] The museum includes a live cannabis garden in various stages of growth,[3] pipe and roach clip collections, an 1836 Dutch Bible made of hemp, and many other accessories made from the industrial crop.

[4] The museum also contains artwork, including David Teniers the Younger's painting, Hemp-Smoking Peasants in a Smoke House (1660),[2] and one of the fake I.D's of the famous cannabis smuggler Howard Marks.

The Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum is often cited in travel books as a destination to visit in Amsterdam due to the unique drug policy of cannabis in the Netherlands.

Time Out Amsterdam asserted "cannabis connoisseurs will lose themselves ogling larger than life pictures of perfect plants and gleaming balls of hash in this museum in the Red Light District.

[5] Author Rick Steves wrote that the museum was informative, but "small and somewhat overpriced, educational but not very entertaining".