Museums

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.

In the idyllic town of Seewen in Solothurn, the Museum of Musical Automatons maintains Dr. Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher's large and important collection composed of nearly 400 mechanical instruments and orchestrions. The museum which opened in a new building in 2000 is wheelchair accessible.