The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (Skulpturhalle) features around 2 000 replicas of ancient Roman and Greek sculpture. The collection was started in 1830. The unique “Parthenon Project” assembles casts of every surviving sculptural remnant from this monument in Athens.
The Museum (Jüdisches Museum) exhibits items depicting religious and everyday life of the Jewish Community. Tombstones and contemporary documents dating from the Middle Ages, Hebrew books printed by the famous Basel printing houses and mementos of the Zionist Congresses enrich the collection.
Initially, it was mainly private collectors who travelled across the continents with their own funds in the nineteenth century, bringing interesting objects and testimonies of indigenous daily culture to Basel. What began as a small collection within the framework of a universal museum increasingly developed into a source of scientific work. The result is the … Read more » “Museum of Ethnography Basel”
The Museum (Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum) is the leading institution in the mediation of contemporary architecture in Switzerland. The museum has specialised in temporary exhibitions. With an average of 4 exhibitions each year