Portable Art Museum

The Portable Art Museum , or PAM for short, is a museum in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , at Karl-Arnold-Straße 4–6.

Heinz Schmidt-Bachem has collected products for industrial paper and film processing, including paper goods, bags , pouches, carrier bags made of paper and plastic. The collection provides a complete overview of the historical development of these typical and therefore extremely rare disposable items since the emergence of the paper goods industry around the middle of the 19th century. Based on models such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein , contemporary artists, especially from the Fluxus environment, have now dealt with the subject and used the carrier bag as a picture and object carrier for a wide variety of messages.

The inventory of tote bags and bags of around 150,000 is the largest of its kind in the world. The museum has been closed since the death of Heinz Schmidt-Bachem in May 2011.

literature

Heinz Schmidt Bachem: portable art - a collection introduces itself. In: inform. Museums in the Rhineland 3/97 p. 32/33

Web links

• Museum website

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 16.7 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 32"  E