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28 June 2022
It has taken a while, but on 18 June Plateforme 10 in Lausanne opened its doors. The complex houses three museums: the Cantonal Museum of Design and Applied Contemporary Art (Musée de Design et d´Arts appliques Contemporains, MUDAC), the Museum of Art (Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, MCBA) and the Photo Museum (Musée cantonal de la … Read more » “Plateforme 10 in Lausanne”
20 May 2022
One more year, and the Association Regio Basiliensis will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2023 as one of the first cross-border partnerships in Europe. Regio Basiliensis The Association (www.regbas.ch) is a successful pioneer of cross-border cooperation and distinguishes itself by its political and institutional framework. It is expressed, for example, in the Oberrheinkonferenz (Upper Rhine … Read more » “The Upper Rhine Cooperation”
30 April 2022
About one-third of all speakers of the Romansh language now live outside the canton of Les Grisons/Graubünden. The (travelling) exhibition aims to inform the other language communities of the country (German, French and Italian) about this language and culture and enlarge the network of speakers of Romansh. Even with only basic knowledge of Latin, German, … Read more » “Romansh Language and Culture”
15 March 2022
Hospitals are testing therapies today, and pharmaceutical companies are rapidly developing vaccines. At the same time, the public discusses the results of medicine and debates its significance. Rarely has the work on the unknowable been as visible as in the past two years. In Basel, pandemics and medicine have been science and industry focal points for … Read more » “Topical Medicine History and Inoculation”
8 March 2022
One project of the Origen Foundation (Fundaziun Origen) in Riom (canton of Graubünden) has barely begun, or the next is already emerging. The Weisse Villa (White Villa) relocation in Mulegns was completed in 2020. The renovation of the famous Post Hotel Löwe is almost finished. The Foundation has also built a theatre (the Julierturm) on … Read more » “Origen’s Cultural Campus”
7 March 2022
On 27 February 2020, the Bundesrat/Conseil fédéral (the national government) and the canton of Basel-Stadt decided to cancel the Fasnacht of 2020 (from 2 to 4 March) because of the Covid epidemic. The disappointment was omnipresent, but the following year, the cancellation was self-evident. Finally, on 7 March 2022, at 4 a.m., the Vorwärts Marsch order was … Read more » “The Basler Fasnacht 2022”
18 February 2022
The dreamed city. (Die geträumte Stadt) is the exhibition’s title in the former monastery Klingental (Museum Kleines Klingental) in Basel. The title is open to two interpretations. A dream can be a vision that is never realised or a dream that becomes a reality (or a nightmare). Both possibilities apply to Basel and probably to … Read more » “The Dreamed City of Basel”
31 January 2022
The work “Svizra Rumantscha” has been hanging in Bern’s House of the Cantons (Haus der Kantone/Maison des cantons) since December 2021. The work shows the names of Switzerland’s approximately 2200 municipalities in the Romansh language. The artist Donat Caduff has converted the names of some 2200 municipalities into Romansh, although most did not have a … Read more » “Svizra Rumantscha in Bern”
23 January 2022
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