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[[caption-width-right:350:''Society of Explorers And Adventurers 1899'']]

->"''Marching Along, We're Adventurers,''\\
''Singing the song of Adventurers,''\\
''Up or Down,''\\
''North, South, East or West,''\\
''An Adventurer's Life is Best.''\\
''An Adventurer's Life is Best!''\\
''Kungaloosh!"''
-->-- '''"The Adventurer's Club All Purpose Theme Song"''' (from the TropeNamer that existed at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]])

This is where you'll find the LadyOfAdventure, AdventurerArchaeologist, GreatWhiteHunter and GentlemanAdventurer (and maybe the EgomaniacHunter and EvilColonialist, if you're unlucky) all hanging out when they aren't out doing dangerous things. There's probably a bar, a roaring fireplace, and lots of easy chairs for people to sit around in. Expect animal heads and African masks hanging on the walls in terms of décor, as well as lots of globes and maps. (Possibly a library full of them.) Often the site of a FramingStory, with one person sharing stories about his latest adventure and the others listening. Especially common in works set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras or a SteamPunk universe, but they can be found elsewhere.

May overlap with AdventureGuild or SmokyGentlemensClub.
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!Examples:

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[[folder:Comics]]
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The Peregrinator's Club is an exclusive lounge for the wealthiest citizens of Gotham City. Originally used by adventurers and explorers, it later became home to the city's rich and affluent bluebloods.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In the ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the Guild of Trespassers runs regular expeditions into places like the wilds of Howondaland. From its base in the City, it recruits for positions like ''Imperious Young Woman Who Looks Good In The Solar Topee With The Fetching Silk Scarf Attached, Who Shouts Loudly At The Natives in Morporkian, With Every Expectation Of Being Obeyed''. Which is how it got Lady Jane Greystruck, a woman who liked [[DarkestAfrica Howondaland]] so much, she married a [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} local man]], and stayed there. Another position it recruits for is ''Totally Unsuited Young Woman Who Looks Good In The Solar Topee With The Fetching Silk Scarf Attached, Who Screams Loudly At Danger, Faints A Lot, And Always Needs To Be Rescued''. It maintains an upmarket club-house in a smart part of Ankh-Morpork, and this is a base for planning expeditions and drinking a lot while reminiscing about old times. The Archaeologists keep a deliberately downplayed clubhouse in an old tower belonging to a redundant city wall, and only openly display ''really interesting'' things like broken pottery and everyday artefacts shedding light on everyday life in ages past. The boring stuff like gold and silver and gemstones are in a (well-secured) cellar strongroom several floors down, as they're not really all that interesting from a point of view of archaeology. Miss Alice Band prefers doing her social drinking at the [[GayBar Blue Cat Club]], but that's a [[LesYay different story]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AboveTheTimberline'' features the Polaris Geographic Society, whose members present themselves as dashing explorers bravely leading expeditions into the frigid wastes to recover the lost technology and knowledge of the old world. Their headquarters are furnished with impressive artifacts and equipment from their most famous missions, and the membership in the Society provides access to funding and supplies that would be impossible to wrangle otherwise. But under that veneer the [=PGS=] is a boy's club whose members are largely self-serving egoists jockeying to get their names in the headlines. When Wesley Singleton approaches them about mounting an expedition to rescue his stranded father Galen Singleton (a prominent PGS member himself), none of the current members are willing to lend a hand.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'', Ankh-Morpork has two: the Guild of Trespassers [[note]]Patrician Vetinari decreed the name change from the ''Guild of Explorers'', as from the point of view of the people whose lands they are "exploring", a different and more accurate title could be more applicable[[/note]], and the Guild of Archaeologists, whose ''younger'' and more ''adventurous'' members, such as Laredo Cronk and Miss Alice Band, take a somewhat more ''proactive'' attitude to the profession. They call it ''[[Franchise/TombRaider Stealth Archaeology]]'', which boils down to getting onto the site of interest, digging up the loot, and getting away with it, before anyone notices. In the case of Miss Alice Band, this necessarily overlaps her ''other'' Guild membership, that of the Guild of Assassins.
* ''The Further Adventures of Dr A. A. A. [=McGurk=] M.D.'' by Osmar White opens with [=McGurk=] sitting in the Explorer's Club, depressed that he and his camel have crossed all the great deserts and he isn't sure what to do next. (Answer: polar exploration. Also by camel.)
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* An episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' involves Frasier and Niles joining one such club, where the members share their travel experiences. It turns out that the club's main adventure is sleeping with the host's wife.
* ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' The "How Old-Timey Anthropologists Got Laid" sketch involves two British explorers regaling one-another with tails of their exploits, which mostly involve native tribes performing various sexual acts on them, acts which become increasingly preposterous the longer each explains. They each rationalize their behavior as necessary because the tribe's "the local custom" and they don't want to contaminate the tribe with outside influence.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The "Lost World of Roiurama" sketch has a scene in the British Explorers' Club.
* In the third episode of the American ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'', Harland Williams won as an adventurer returning to his club after an expedition.
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[[folder:Tabletop RPG]]
* The Explorers Society in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''. They descend from a Roman society of monster-hunters, and since the Reckoning, are starting to dust off the old mantle again... much to the distaste of the Agency and the Texas Rangers, who both consider the Explorers Society to be half-baked bumblers who are far too open about the monstrous nature of their quarry.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has "Society of Stalwart Adventurers", a club for adventurers and wannabe adventurers in Suzail (Cormyr).
* The Horatio Club in {{TabletopGame/GURPS}} ''Time Travel''.
* Hero Games' ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice,_Inc._(role-playing_game) Justice Inc.]]'' game had the Empire Club, a haven for adventurers in a pulp genre setting.
* The [[http://magiccards.info/lg/en/245.html Adventurers' Guildhouse]] in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''.
** Later on, the story tells of the planeswalker Tamiyo who invites several other planeswalkers to join her storyteller circle, where they trade stories from across the multiverse.
* The Grand Lodge of the Pathfinder Society in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' has the Lodge on Venus, where explorers and big game hunters relax. The Empire's Fortune, a Martian Freebooter band comprised of four former British officers also have one.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' has the eponymous Traveller's Aid Society, that offers club houses at major worlds, news reports, and insurance for [[MundaneUtility risky ventures]].
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[[folder:Theater]]
* In Eric Overmyer's play ''Theatre/OnTheVerge'', the three [[LadyOfAdventure Ladies of Adventure]] often reminisce about good times at the Explorer's Club back home. Fanny, in particular, has a great monologue about the ForeignQueasine she gladly partook of last time she was there.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* The TropeNamer is the defunct bar and improv club at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]]'s Pleasure Island, which was open from 1989 to 2008. Each night would feature a variety of actors representing the club's explorers and staff, who would perform improv-heavy shows at scheduled times in an elaborate two-story club full of animatronics and effects.
* There is also the Society of Explorers and Adventurers or [[FunWithAcronyms S.E.A.]] at Tokyo Disney Sea and Hong Kong Disneyland. Some EasterEggs at the Aulani resort in Hawaii serve as a little bit of glue connecting the two Adventurers Club stories with an old Adventurers Club painting being retconned into one featuring a younger version of SEA character Harrison Hightower when he was part of a group called the "Pillagers Brigade".
* The "Skipper Canteen" restaurant at the Magic Kingdom park.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* The Jakobs corporation and the characters of the Eden-6 arc in ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' has this aesthetic in mind, with its heir Wainwright being a SouthernGentleman, his boyfriend and previously introduced intrepid explorer Alistair Hammerlock being a QuintessentialBritishGentleman, and his villainous sister Aurelia being TheBaroness.
* ''VideoGame/CuriousExpedition'' deals with an adventurer's guild tasking various real life explorers with finding six Golden Pyramids and various other treasures in a competition. Between each round/expedition, the guild is depicted as the typical Victorian-style lounge with exploration-oriented décor.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'': ''Explorers of Sky'' features Spinda's Café, an underground shop where explorers can brew drinks, exchange useless items for better ones and gamble for prizes. Many explorers frequent the location, with some Pokémon exploiting this fact to offer jobs to the patrons.
* The Legends' and Heroes' Guilds in ''VideoGame/RuneScape''.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe has The Galactic Society of Creature Enthusiasts, as first seen in ''WebAnimation/StarWarsGalaxyOfCreatures''. Inspired by the real life Adventurers' Club of New York and the National Geographic Society, the goal of the society is to track the nature and habitats of various species in the galaxy. ''WebAnimation/StarWarsGalacticPals'' introduced a youngling branch of the society, focusing on younglings of various species and figuring out their various needs and nurtures.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The Virtual Exploration Society flavortext at the Museum of Unnatural Mystery Web site.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE22JokersFavor "Joker's Favor"]] appears the Peregrinator's Club as an exclusive lounge for the wealthiest citizens of Gotham City. Originally used by adventurers and explorers, it later became home to the city's rich and affluent bluebloods. That would explain why on earth would the club had reconstructed a {{Mayincatec}} temple, right down to re-poisoning the darts in the traps... at least in part. Remember that is a [[CrapsackWorld Gotham City]] club.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Scrooge [=McDuck=] is a member of one of these.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Quacker Tracker" featured WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck being offered a lifetime membership to a club if he can catch the elusive WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales.
* The Super Adventure Club in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is visually based on the Disney club, although it's actually an organisation of child molesters (and a thinly veiled strawman of the ChurchOfHappyology). When the boys say they assumed the club was about adventuring, the club's leader explains, "No, that's the Adventure Club. We're the ''Super'' Adventure Club."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'': Commander [=McBragg's=] stories usually [[FramingStory started and ended]] here.
* A few ''Snagglepuss'' cartoons on ''The WesternAnimation/YogiBear Show'' featured Major Minor belonging to an adventurers' club. A proto Snagglepuss and Major meet here in the ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'' cartoon "The Lion is Busy," where Snooper refers to some of the members as "fugitives from a late late show."
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Numerous, including:
** The Explorers Club in New York City.
** The Royal Geographical Society in 19th century England, now a organization for professional geographers and other scientists.
** The Magazine/NationalGeographic Society, its American counterpart. It has expanded well beyond the old-fashioned club of the idle rich into a significant conductor of scientific research in fields of natural science, while also serving an educational mission with its magazine and tv network. Abandoning the patronizing attitude toward indigenous peoples has been a major improvement.
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