Abenteuermuseum (Saarbrücken)

The Adventure Museum in Saarbrücken is a former museum, which was founded by the late 2004 Heinz Schulz - Rox.

Exhibition

The Saarbrücken Adventure Museum, founded by the world traveler, artist, author and filmmaker Heinz Rox -Schulz, was an institution in the Saarland state capital. Shrunken heads of Jívaro Indians from the Amazon, hand axes, swords, rhino heads, sculptures, Tibetan skull bowls and all sorts of ceremonial objects and curiosities brought back from his travels, which he had set out in 1950 to Africa, Asia, South America and New Guinea Rox.

The ethnological treasures of the collection includes about a grain mummy and the life-size figure of a warrior of the Tuareg of the Sahara in full gear. Rox -Schulz was a survivor. On his travels he made ​​his way as a gymnast, and artist. Later he became a cameraman at the Saarland Radio. Read are his experiences in his books "The Adventures of Mr. Rox: Without money in the world" or " Heaven and Hell India ". A few days after his 83rd birthday Heinz Rox -Schulz died in March 2004. Until recently, he had school classes through its museum, to promote respect for other cultures.

Closing and reopening

In October 2004, the museum in the Old Town Hall was closed on Palace Square, as the city had cut the subsidies to staff costs. His store stocks since September 2005 in boxes packed in premises of the city of Saarbrücken. On 10 February 2009 the Saarbrücken City Council rejected the proposal, after which the museum should find a place to live in two rooms of the former Saarbrücken German Herr school, and decided in March 2009 to make an ethnological collection locate delivered to the stocks of Adventure Museum should be.

Since November 2013 parts of the collection in Crime Café " Baker Street" can be seen in the Saarbrücken Mainzer Straße. Besides the permanent exhibition is to keep the patrons "Friends of the Museum Adventure " with regular special the memory of Rox -Schulz awake.