In 1991 the Academic Pipe Club was formed in Uh. Hradiště. Here the founding members after the opening of the exhibition entitled Vášeň zvaná dýmka (Passion called the Pipe): PhDr. Svatopluk Bimka, the director of the cultural department at the regional office, PhDr. Ivo Frolec, the director of the Museum of Moravian Slovakia, Ladislav Šupka, the mayor JUDr. Ivan Gavanda, a notary in Uh. Hradiště.