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.

Thanks to the bequest by John A. Brown, a descendent of Sidney und Jenny Brown-Sulzer who died in 1987, Villa Langmatt was made accessible to the public as an Impressionist art and home decor museum. The Villa, built in 1900/01 by the architects Moser and Curjel, is home to a gallery with paintings by important French Impressionists and their forerunners.

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.

Largest diorama exhibit in Europe: 220 showcases depicting native and exotic birds and mammals in their natural habitat. The famous "Barry", the Saint Bernard dog.