18 Sights in Basel, Switzerland (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Basel, Switzerland! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Basel. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
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Theater Basel is the municipal theatre of the city of Basel, Switzerland, which is home to the city's opera and ballet companies. The theatre also presents plays and musicals in addition to operas and operettas.
The Museum of Cultures in Basel is a Swiss museum of ethnography with large and important collections of artifacts, especially from Europe, the South Pacific, Mesoamerica, Tibet, and Bali. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
The Fasnacht Fountain is a fountain created by the artist Jean Tinguely and is located on Theaterplatz in the Swiss city of Basel. It was built between 1975 and 1977 on the site of the stage of the old, demolished municipal theatre and was a gift from the 50-year-old Migros trading cooperative to the city of Basel. It is a new landmark for Basel, but is not a listed building.
4. Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
5. Fondation Beyeler
The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler, with its museum in Riehen, near Basel (Switzerland), owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern and traditional art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a space for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection. In 2006, approximately 340,000 persons visited the museum. The number of visitors in 2016 was 332,000. The Beyeler Foundation is the most visited museum of art in all of Switzerland. The museum is properly funded, and it receives annual grants from the cantons of Basel City and Basel County and the commune of Riehen. Major partners of the Foundation are Bayer AG, Novartis and Swiss bank UBS.
6. Basel Historical Museum – Barfüsserkirche
The Basel Historical Museum is one of the largest and most important museums of its kind in Switzerland and a heritage site of national significance. It opened in 1892. The museum is divided into three buildings within the city of Basel: the Barfüsserkirche, Haus zum Kirschgarten and Musikmuseum.
7. Museum Kleines Klingental
The Museum Kleines Klingental in Basel is located in the foundation building "Kleines Klingental" of the former nunnery Klingental from 1274 and was founded in 1938/39 as the "City and Minster Museum". The museum houses the collection of original sculptures from the Basel Cathedral, which were replaced by copies during restorations at the cathedral. The museum also houses a model of the city of Basel as it looked in the 17th century and a model of the Klingental monastery in the 16th century. The museum is managed by the Cantonal Monument Preservation of Basel-Stadt.
8. Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt
The State Archives of Basel-Stadt in Basel have the legal task of taking over, indexing, securely storing and making available for use the archival documents of the public bodies of the canton. It supports the research and publication of the archival material. Organizationally, the State Archives belong to the Presidential Department.
9. Leonhardskirche
The Leonhardskirche is a Protestant Reformed church in the city of Basel. The Gothic town and collegiate church is dedicated to St. Leonhard and stands in the old town of Grossbasel on Leonhardskirchplatz.
10. Anatomisches Museum
The Anatomical Museum Basel is a museum in the Swiss city of Basel and displays original specimens and wax models of human body parts and organs. It is part of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Basel.
11. Matthäuskirche
St. Matthew's Church in Basel is a Protestant Reformed church in the neo-Gothic style, which stands freely on Matthäusplatz in the Matthäus-Quartier. With its 80-metre-high church tower, it is the tallest church in Basel, higher than Basel Cathedral, St. Anthony's Church and St. Elizabeth's Church. The latter three, however, are topographically higher.
12. Elisabethenkirche
The Elisabethenkirche, or Offene Kirche Elisabethen, is a 19th-century church building in the centre of Basel, next to the Theater Basel, in Switzerland. It is a well detailed example of Swiss Gothic Revival style churches. It has a 72 metres (236 ft) tall bell tower and spire. The tower has internal stairs.
13. Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Natural History Museum Basel is a natural history museum in Basel, Switzerland that houses wide-ranging collections focused on the fields of zoology, entomology, mineralogy, anthropology, osteology and paleontology. It has over 11 million objects.
14. Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel (Switzerland) opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It is a heritage site of national significance.
15. St. Jakobs-Denkmal
The St. Jakobs Memorial is a statue originally erected in 1824 in the Canton Basel, Switzerland in memory of the fallen Swiss soldiers in the Battle of St.Jakob at the Birs of 1444. Due to extensive maintaining costs the government demanded the replacement of the first memorial with one built from a more durable material. In 1872, the current statue, built by the Swiss sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth was erected.
16. Skulpturhalle
The Skulpturhalle Basel is a museum in Basel, Switzerland, featuring cast replicas of antique sculpture. With around 2,000 casts, it is the largest collection of its kind in the country, due to its tripling in size between 1985 and 2010. Since 1961, the collection has been managed by the Antikenmuseum Basel.
17. Strassburger Denkmal
The Strassburger memorial is a monument in Basel established in memory of the help the civil population of Strassburg received from Switzerland during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870–1871. It was modeled by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and is located in a park across from the Basel railway station.
18. Rappaz Museum
S RappazMuseum is a museum in Huus Klingedaal 11 in Gläibaasel, where graphic artist and artist Rolf Rappaz is dedicated to Baasler. It is open from Mändig to Thursday from the morning to the fifth on the Nomiddaag.
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