Gallery · Basel, Canton of Basel-Stadt
Museum Tinguely
Museum Tinguely
Museum Tinguely is the museum of the kinetic sculptor Jean Tinguely on the Rhine in Basel, opened in 1996 in a building by Mario Botta.
Why go
Museum Tinguely is a museum on the bank of the Rhine in Basel, opened in 1996 in a building by the Ticino architect Mario Botta and devoted to the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925 to 1991). The museum says its collection of 218 kinetic sculptures, more than half of them on show and most in working order, covers four decades of his work, from early reliefs to the machine sculptures of the 1980s, and that it also holds temporary exhibitions with artists Tinguely knew and contemporary artists. Its event listings mark some guided tours as needing no booking and others as needing registration in advance. The building occupies the eastern part of the Solitude Park. It is not the Espace Jean Tinguely in Fribourg.
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Kunstmuseum Basel
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1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Basel Minster
Basel Minster is the red sandstone church with two towers on Münsterplatz in Basel, the church of the Protestant Münster parish whose building history reaches back to a Carolingian minster.
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Historic site
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Fortress
Spalentor
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2 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
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