Kretek Museum tells the story of Kudus's clove cigarette industry, from hand-rolled production to the companies that turned kretek into a national habit. It is a niche museum, but in Kudus that niche matters: the city and the cigarette are hard to separate.
The displays cover tools, advertising, production methods, and local business history. Even if you have no romance about smoking, the museum helps explain why a small Central Java city became known across Indonesia.