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Kunstmuseum Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel is the museum of Basel's public art collection, shown in three buildings: the Hauptbau on St. Alban-Graben, the Neubau across the street and the Gegenwart for contemporary art.

Why go

Kunstmuseum Basel is the museum of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, the city's public art collection, which the museum dates to the city's purchase of the Amerbach Cabinet in 1661. It uses three buildings: the Hauptbau on St. Alban-Graben, completed in 1936 to plans by Rudolf Christ and Paul Bonatz; the Neubau by Christ & Gantenbein across the street, opened in 2016 and linked to it by an underground passage; and the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart on St. Alban-Rheinweg, opened in 1980, for contemporary art. The museum's renovation page says the Hauptbau will close for a renovation expected to take four years and to begin in 2029 at the earliest, with exhibitions continuing in the Neubau and the Gegenwart. The map point marks the Hauptbau.

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Basel

Basel is a city on the Rhine in the corner where Switzerland meets Germany and France, and the seat of the canton of Basel-Stadt. XTOUR maps the Minster, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Town Hall, the Museum Tinguely and the Spalentor in the city, and treats the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen and Augusta Raurica in Augst as trips from Basel.

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