Sculpture Hall Basel
The Sculpture Hall Basel is a museum for casts of ancient plastic and sculptures in Basel . With around 2,000 casts, her collection is not only the largest in Switzerland, but also one of the most important in the world. The number of casts has tripled in the past 25 years. The management of the collection has been subordinate to the Antikenmuseum Basel since 1961 .
The collection, which began around 1830, was located in the then newly opened Museum on Augustinergasse from 1849 (today the location of the Natural History Museum and the Museum of Cultures ). In 1887 she moved to the Basler Kunsthalle , where a wing structure was built especially for her as a “sculpture hall”. In 1927 the casts were put into storage because of the temporary accommodation of the state picture collection in the art gallery and the resulting lack of space. In 1940 the cast collection found a temporary place in an empty factory after a new building project had failed in a referendum four years earlier ; the new building was not realized until 1963.
The casts make it possible to bring together parts of works scattered across various museums and thus to produce integral reconstructions of ancient sculptures. The “Parthenon Project” is unique in the world, in which all the remains of the architectural sculpture of the Athens Parthenon Temple have been collected in casts and exhibited in such a way that the original context is recognizable. A series of architectural models on a scale of 1:20 complements the exhibition.
The head of the sculpture hall is currently (2010) Tomas Lochman, a son of Jan Milič Lochman .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '37.2 " N , 7 ° 34' 46.5" E ; CH1903: 610609 / two hundred sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-six