Museums

A special experience is watching dinosaurs come to life at the preparation hall.

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.

The Museo Forte Ospizio displays weapons, armor and uniforms. Videos and audio tapes document daily life, military service and battles during World War I.

History and development of agriculture in Switzerland.

Changing exhibitions present aspects of the works of the painters Carl August Liner (1871-1946)and Carl Walter Liner (1914-1997) as well as art from the 20th Century to the present.

This "must-see" art hall in a former brick factory has a kiln dating back to 1566, which visitors can in fact walk around in.

Can there be any more authentic way of experiencing history than to walk among 2,000-year-old ruins, or to touch an object once held in Roman hands?

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 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.