List of museums in Basel
The list of museums in Basel shows the museums in the city and catchment area of Basel, sorted by category. Mention is made of the active houses, the collection of which has a character that extends beyond the local area and which are usually open regularly several days a week. See also the main article about the museums in Basel .
The focus of the collection of the Basel museums is on the fine arts . The spectrum ranges from ancient times to the present and shows both historical and established as well as pioneering art. Numerous museums deal with a wide variety of cultural-historical and ethnological topics, as well as technical and scientific collections. Since the 1960s, the traditional task of collecting, preserving and exhibiting as a priority has continued to develop. In addition to the new forms of public contact (museum education and didactics), mixed institutional forms have emerged that actively strive for a socio-politically relevant role and in which museum operations are only one, albeit central, facet of a more comprehensive cultural commitment.
The public museum holdings have their origins in the acquisition of the private Amerbach cabinet by the city and University of Basel in 1661, making them the oldest continuously existing museum collection of a bourgeois community. The first actual museum building dates from 1849, when the public collections were housed in the museum on Augustinergasse . From 1894 onwards they were distributed among several museum buildings. Almost all of the private collections came into being after the Second World War.
The border location of the city at the Basler Dreiländereck and the small-scale structure of the Basel region mean that the majority of the Basel museums are in the city of Basel and thus in the canton of Basel-Stadt; however, some museums can be found in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, and museums in the Basel agglomeration can also be counted as part of the Basel museum landscape, such as those in the neighboring cities of Lörrach , Saint-Louis and Weil am Rhein . In view of the municipal, regional and national administrative units that come together here, as well as the overlying agglomeration, there is no clearly definable number of Basel museums, but even with a narrow perimeter there are at least three dozen houses that house collections and make them accessible.
Explanation of the list
- Name: Provides the official name of the museum.
- Collection and activity: names the museum features and focal points of the institution.
- Year: indicates the year the museum and / or the museum collections were founded.
- Location: Names the district of the city of Basel or the town in the Basel region where the museum is located.
- Illustration: Shows - if possible - a picture of the museum building.
- Homepage: If possible, gives a web link to the museum's homepage.
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Art, architecture, design
| museum | Collection and activity | year | Location | Illustration |
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| Antikenmuseum Basel | Ancient art and culture of the Mediterranean and the Middle East; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1661/1961 | Basel (old town Grossbasel) |
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| Cartoon Museum Basel | Caricatures, cartoons and comics; Temporary exhibitions | 1979 | Basel (suburbs) | |
| Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca | Contemporary Arts; Temporary exhibitions | 2004 | Saint-Louis |
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| Beyeler Foundation | Classical modern, indigenous art; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1982/1997 | Riehen |
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| House for Electronic Arts Basel | Media art; Temporary exhibitions, events, festivals, collections | 2011 | Dreispitz Basel and Münchenstein |
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| Historical Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche) (from 2013 Museum of History, Barfüsserkirche) | Arts and handicrafts of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period from Basel and the Upper Rhine region; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1661/1836/1892 | Basel (old town Grossbasel) |
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| Art space Riehen | Contemporary art from the Basel region; Temporary exhibitions | 1998 | Riehen | |
| Kunsthalle Basel | Contemporary avant-garde art; Temporary exhibitions, lectures, performances, video and film screenings | 1872 | Basel (suburbs) |
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| Kunsthaus Baselland | Current art projects in the Basel region; Temporary and guest exhibitions | 1997 | Muttenz | |
| Art Museum Basel | Upper Rhine art from 1400 to 1600 as well as art from the 19th and 20th centuries; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1661/1836/1936 | Basel (suburbs) |
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| Museum of Contemporary Art | Contemporary art from the 1960s to the present day ( Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation ); Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1981 | Basel (St. Alban) |
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| Museum Tinguely | Jean Tinguely , contemporary; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1996 | Basel (Wettstein) |
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| [plug.in] | Since 2011: House for Electronic Arts Basel Media Art; Temporary exhibitions, events, artist networking | 2000-2010 | Basel (St. Alban) |
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| SAM Swiss Architecture Museum | Architecture, urbanism; Temporary exhibitions, publications, events | 1984 | Basel (suburbs) |
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| Schaulager | Contemporary Art ( Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation ); Art storage and research, temporary exhibitions | 2003 | Munchenstein |
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| Sculpture at Schoenthal | Contemporary sculptures; Temporary exhibitions, sculpture park | 2000/2001 | Schonthal |
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| Sculpture Hall Basel | Casts of ancient plastic, architectural sculpture of the Athens Parthenon ; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1887/1963 | Basel (Am Ring) |
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| Vitra Design Museum | Industrial furniture design, architecture; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1989 | Because on the Rhine |
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Culture and history
| museum | Collection and activity | year | Location | Illustration |
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| Basel paper mill | Paper production, writing culture; Permanent and changing exhibitions, demonstration operations | 1954/1980 | Basel (St. Alban) |
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| Herzog Foundation | Photography since 1839; Temporary exhibitions, studies, training | 2002 | Munchenstein |
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| Historical Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche) (from 2013 Museum of History, Barfüsserkirche) | Arts and handicrafts of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period from Basel and the Upper Rhine region; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1661/1856/1892 | Basel (old town Grossbasel) |
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| Historical Museum Basel (Haus zum Kirschgarten) | Basel living culture of the 18th and 19th centuries; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1951 | Basel (suburbs) |
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| Historisches Museum Basel (Carriage Museum) (from 2013 Museum for Horsepower, Merian Gardens, Brüglingen) | 19th and 20th century carriages and sleighs; Permanent exhibition | 1981-2016 | Munchenstein |
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| Historisches Museum Basel (Music Museum) (from 2013 Museum for Music, Im Lohnhof) | Musical instruments and European music history; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1943/2000 | Basel (old town Grossbasel) |
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| Jewish Museum of Switzerland | Cultural history of the Jews in Switzerland and Basel, documents from the first Zionist congress in 1897; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1966 | Basel (Am Ring) | |
| Mill museum Brüglingen | History of the mill and milling; Permanent exhibition, demonstration operation | 1966 | Munchenstein |
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| Dreiländermuseum | Past and present of the three-country region; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1932 | Loerrach |
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| Museum.BL | Nature and culture of the region; Permanent and changing exhibitions, forum events | 1837 | Liestal |
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| Museum of Cultures Basel | Ethnological collections from Europe, Ancient Egypt, Africa, Asia, Ancient America, Oceania; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1661/1892/1917 | Basel |
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| Small Klingental Museum | History of the Klingental Monastery, original sculptures from the Basel Minster , model of the city of Basel in the 17th century; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1938/1997 | Basel (old town Kleinbasel) |
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| Roman Museum Augst | Ruins of Augusta Raurica , excavation finds, reconstructions; Permanent and temporary exhibitions, archaeological park | 1957 | Augst |
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| Collection Friedhof Hörnli | Basel and Swiss funeral culture; Permanent exhibition | 1994 | Riehen | |
| Toy museum, village and vine growing museum | Toys, everyday life in the village, viticulture; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1972 | Riehen |
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| Toy Worlds Museum Basel | Teddy bears, dolls, miniatures; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1998 | Basel (suburbs) |
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| Sports Museum Switzerland | Past and present of sport and play; external temporary exhibitions | 1945 | Basel (Am Ring) |
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| Poet and City Museum Liestal | Literature ( Georg and Emma Herwegh , Carl Spitteler etc.), history and customs; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1946/2001 | Liestal |
Science and technology
| museum | Collection and activity | year | Location | Illustration |
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| Anatomical Museum Basel | Original preparations of human body areas and organs; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1824/1880 | Basel (Am Ring) |
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| Basel paper mill | Paper production and writing culture; Permanent and changing exhibitions, demonstration operations | 1954/1980 | Basel (St. Alban) |
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| Herzog Foundation | Photography since 1839; Temporary exhibitions, studies and training | 2002 | Munchenstein |
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| Mill museum Brüglingen | History of the mill and milling; Permanent exhibition, demonstration operation | 1966 | Munchenstein |
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| Museum.BL | Nature and culture of the region; Permanent and changing exhibitions, forum events | 1837 | Liestal |
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| Museum of Music Automatons | Mechanical jukeboxes; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1979/1990 | Seewen | |
| Natural History Museum Basel | Zoology, entomology, mineralogy, anthropology, osteology, paleontology; Permanent and changing exhibitions, research | 1661/1821/1849 | Basel (old town Grossbasel) |
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| Pharmaceutical History Museum of the University of Basel | History of pharmacy; Permanent and temporary exhibitions | 1924 | Basel (old town Grossbasel) |
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| Swiss Fire Brigade Museum | History of fire fighting; Permanent exhibition | 1994 | Basel (suburbs) |
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| Switzerland as a transport hub and our route to the sea | Rhine shipping, combined transport, model of the Basel Rhine ports; Permanent exhibition | 1954 | Basel (Kleinhüningen) |
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literature
- Fritz K. Mathys: Basel's treasuries. On the creation and development of our museums. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1979 , pp. 151-164.
- Annemarie Monteil: Basel museums. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1977, ISBN 3-7643-0945-8 .
Web links
- museen basel Website on the museums in and around Basel
In addition, many villages have their own village museum or a regional museum with local historical exhibits:
- Museums in the municipalities Website on the local and local museums in the canton of Basel-Landschaft