Mr Sax's House

Mr Sax's House
Maison de Monsieur Sax; Huis van Sax
	Location within Belgium
Location	Dinant
Coordinates	50°15′42.536″N 4°54′39.228″E / 50.26181556°N 4.91089667°E
Type	music instrument museums
Nearest parking	in the city center

Mr Sax's House (French: Maison de Monsieur Sax; Dutch: Huis van Sax) is a museum in Dinant in the Belgian province of Namur. It is dedicated to Adolphe Sax (1814–1894). Sax was a builder of musical instruments and is foremost remembered for his invention of the saxophone.

Interior

At the front of the museum a brass statue of Sax is seated on a bench.^[1] The entrance is decorated with earthenware titles. A number of museum pieces are installed on the wall and ceiling. The limitations of the floor space have further been solved interactively, and with a men's high book that introduces visitors to the life of sax.^[2] Visitors can listen to a variety of saxophones, as well as to saxophones in a variety of music styles, and are informed by images on a screen. The museum is open daily and entrance is free.^[1]

Adolphe Sax and Dinant

The museum is located in the birthplace of Sax, Dinant, in the French language part of Belgium. Near the museum and in other places in Dinant, artwork reminds of his connection with the city. On both sides of the Charles de Gaulle Bridge a number of huge artworks of colourful saxophones are presented. The name of the tourist flyer is Sax and the City.^[1]

Sax has built more instruments than saxophones alone, and had a factory that was focused on production. In a certain period he employed more than two hundred workers. He lived just a few years in Dinant and stayed a great part of his life in Paris. He was the predominant supplier of brass instruments to the army of king William I of the Netherlands, who reigned in Belgium too in those years.^[3]