Antikenmuseum Basel
The Antikenmuseum Basel and the Ludwig Collection is a state museum for ancient art and culture from the Mediterranean region in Basel .
The collection
The museum is the only one in Switzerland that exclusively shows ancient art and culture from the Mediterranean region. It brings together ancient Egyptian , Greek , Etruscan , Roman and Near Eastern objects. The period of origin extends from the 4th millennium BC. Until the 6th century AD, with a heavyweight of 1000 BC. BC to AD 300. The ancient Egyptian section and the collection of Greek vases and sculptures make up the main holdings . Bronze statuettes , terracottas and gold jewelry set special accents .
The Antikenmuseum also includes the Basel sculpture hall with plaster casts of ancient sculptures, including the Parthenon frieze.
The museum
The Antikenmuseum opposite the Kunstmuseum Basel is the youngest of the state museums in Basel-Stadt . Antique objects were already part of the original inventory of Basel's public museum collection, which was created in 1661 through the purchase of the Amerbachkabinett . The collection of antiquities, however, was not particularly important and was not well looked after. Plaster casts, which were purchased in large numbers and only presented in the new museum on Augustinergasse , and from 1887 in a separate exhibition room in the Kunsthalle Basel , attracted more attention until the beginning of the 20th century . The holdings of the original ancient art were divided between the historical museum (ancient cabaret and coins) and the art museum (large sculptures) in 1894 . Most of the roughly two thousand objects remained in storage; the sculpture hall closed in 1927.
The objects that had been scattered since the end of the 19th century were concentrated in a separate house when the Museum of Antiquities was founded in 1961. The reason for this was significant donations of money from patrons and donations from collections. Three quarters of the exhibits came from private ownership. The Antikenmuseum was opened in 1966 in a classicist house by Melchior Berri from the 1820s and a modern skylight room. The donation of a collection of antiquities from Peter Ludwig in 1981 led to the connection of a neighboring building (also by Berri and from the same period) and the reopening under the name Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig in 1986. The last significant expansions took place in 2001 with the permanent Egypt department in a separate hall under the courtyard and in 2002 with the Orient, Cyprus and Early Greece Department .
Employee
The founding director was the classical archaeologist Ernst Berger from October 1961 to 1993 , his successor was Peter Blome from 1993 to 2012 . Andrea Bignasca has been director of the museum since 2013 . From 1962 to 1997 Margot Schmidt was a curator and deputy museum director at the Antikenmuseum.
literature
- Annemarie Monteil: Basel museums. Birkhäuser, Basel 1977, ISBN 3-7643-0945-8 , pp. 78-82.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '15.8 " N , 7 ° 35' 35.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eleven thousand six hundred thirty-nine / 267 085