Museums

The Musée Vaudois de la Vigne et du Vin (Vine and Wine Museum) is housed in the impressive Château d'Aigle. Almost 2,000 years of wine-producing history and cultural traditions is displayed and illustrated, in addition to information about jobs in the wine-producing industry.

History and development of agriculture in Switzerland.

John A. Brown, who died in 1987, was the last surviving son of Sidney and Jenny Brown. It was thanks to his bequest that the Villa Langmatt in Baden could be opened as an Impressionist Painting and Historic Home Museum.

The architect Mario Botta designed the Museum Jean Tinguely. It is devoted to the life and work of this major sculptor in iron.

The Collection Beyeler became a public museum - designed by the architect Renzo Piano - with the opening of the Beyeler Foundation. This collection can now be viewed in its own museum.

Basel is the home of Switzerland's largest ethnological and folk art collections. The museum is particularly rich in exhibits from the South Seas and from Indonesia.

The Basel Museum of Ancient Art is the only Swiss museum devoted exclusively to Classical Antiquity. It contains Greek, Etruscan and Roman works, predominantly from the period 1000 B.C.

A tour of the Natural History Museum is like an expedition into the remotest corners of our planet where the most beautiful minerals originate, or into the distant past when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Natural objects - the largest as well as the smallest - are there to be discovered, inspected and contemplated. A memorable experience.

The emphasis of the "Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel" is on Upper Rheinish and Flemish paintings and drawing from 1400 to 1600 and on 19th and 20th century art.

The collection of the Bern Museum of Art comprises works from seven centuries. More than 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 works on paper are on display in the art museum.