Tintin’s Museum Answers

 

Tintin’s Museum

 
  1. Sir Francis Haddock idol, in Red Rackham’s Treasure
  2. King Ottokar’s Sceptre
  3. Model of the Unicorn, in The Secret of the Unicorn
  4. Chorten, in Tintin in Tibet
  5. Bapende Mask, in The Broken Ear. Congolese Culture, including discussion of Bapende masks.
  6. Statue of the witch doctor of the village Tintin stays in Tintin in the Congo. He is robed in “Leopard Clothes” and is sent by Tom to kill Tintin. Thanks to Paul McClelland for this answer.
  7. Sir Francis Haddock’s cutlass, found by Captain Haddock, in The Secret of the Unicorn
  8. Incan death mask, in Prisoners of the Sun
  9. Marlinspike Hall
  10. The sign of Kih-Oskh, Cigars of the Pharaoh
  11. The sonic weapon used by Bordurians to blow up the model city, in The Calculus Affair
  12. Vase from The Blue Lotus
  13. The Sirius
    Our only image of this poster is too small to tell for sure, but what you can see of the rigging and the superstructure looks right.
     
      Digital close up of the museum poster print, with the image flipped horizontally to match images below.
    “A model of the Sirius made in 1952 by A. Van Noeyen. It should not be confused with the first model acquired by Hergé when he was working on Red Rackham’s Treasure.”
    Scan and caption from The Adventures of Tintin at Sea.
    The Sirius, from Red Rackham’s Treasure, p 14.
     
  14. Unknown treasure cask. Paul McClelland writes: “I believe this is the chest that gets eaten by a shark and contains documents about Sir Francis Haddock in Red Rackham’s Treasure, page 48. I am not completely sure, but it seems a worthy candidate.”
  15. Model of moon rocket, in Destination Moon
  16. Statue of Siva at which Snowy is nearly sacrificed, in Cigars of the Pharaoh
  17. Rascar Capac, in The Seven Crystal Balls
  18. Carreidas 160, in Flight 714
  19. Arumbaya fetish, in The Broken Ear
  20. Snowy
  21. Tintin
  22. Bianca Castafiore
  23. Captain Haddock
  24. Cuthbert Calculus
  25. Thomson
  26. Thompson
  27. Jolyon Wagg
  28. Nestor
  29. Zorino, in Prisoners of the Sun (Abdullah, in several books, is next to Zorino.)
  30. General Alcazar, in The Broken Ear
  31. Senhor Oliveira da Figueira, in Land of Black Gold
  32. The Maharaja of Gaipajama and the Crown Prince of Gaipajama, in Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus
  • Way at the back, the two people might be Igor Wagner, Bianca Castafiore’s accompanist and Irma, her maid.