Sports Museum Switzerland

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The warehouse indicates the name and character of the companion warehouse.

The Swiss Sports Museum Foundation pursued the purpose of collecting cultural assets from sport and conveying sport as part of everyday culture. The office and headquarters of the foundation were in Basel . A walk-in warehouse has been accessible to visitors since September 2011 on the Dreispitz in Münchenstein near Basel.

history

The idea of ​​a sports museum matured in 1945. After the government of Basel-Stadt had given a start-up loan for a museum, the Swiss Gymnastics and Sports Museum (TSM) was founded. The founding members included gymnastics inspector August Frei (1874–1962), cyclist and bicycle dealer Oskar Stählin (1889–1945) and the Zurich doctor Gustav Adolf Wehrli (1888–1949). They made their collections of books, magazines, documents, historical bicycles and sports equipment available as a foundation and soon several other private collections were added. The collection, consisting of 150,000 units, was considered to be a unique collection of sports culture in Europe.

The Swiss Sports Museum has been working with a new concept since October 2005: Under the motto "Collect centrally - convey decentrally", the Swiss Sports Museum was increasingly present with external exhibitions, events and publications. Since the opening of the Begehllager, however, the "classic" museum operation has been offered again at a fixed location. The entire collection was accessible for individual visits, guided groups or researchers in the Begehllager.

A renovation in 2014 created new space for changing special exhibitions, a permanent exhibition with highlights from the collection as well as a bistro and a museum shop. The communication of the entire collection was also revised in the course of the renovation.

  • The foyer with a special and permanent exhibition. In the background bistro and shop.

  • Subdivision into files and image archives on the right and object collection on the left.

  • Arranged in niches, the collection of objects thematizes aspects of sports culture and relates them to their neighboring niches.

  • Visitors can witness work in the museum in the Begehllager.

  • Researchers can conduct research on site upon request.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports Museum Switzerland, Begehlager

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '49.1 "  N , 7 ° 34' 4.5"  E ; CH1903:  609730  /  268111