Basel Art Museum
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In the Basel Art Museum you will come across the oldest public
art collection in the world. The museum owns the worlds largest collection of
works by the Holbein family. The Renaissance is also represented with
works by Witz, Cranach the Elder, Grünewald, and others. Highlights of the 19th
century are paintings by Böcklin, van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne.
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Kunstmuseum Basel
St. Alban-Graben 16
4010
Basel
www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
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Trips along the Rhine
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Enjoy the Rhine on a trip through the locks to Rheinfelden, or a harbour tour as far as the Dreiländereck on board
the white fleet of the Basel Passenger Shipping Company. You can discover the city and region from the water
and be spoilt by the cuisine at the same time. Numerous entertainment trips provide a great change in the evenings.
www.bpg.ch
www.rhytaxi.ch
www.portofbasel.ch
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Swiss Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing
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In the middle of the 12th Century the convent of the monastery of St.Alban constructed a canal to bring water to
drive the water wheels of the - at one time - twelve mills in the St.Alban valley. During the late Middle Ages ten
of these mills were converted into paper mills causing the area to become the most important producer of paper in Switzerland
during the 16th and 17th century.
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Basler Papiermühle
St. Alban-Tal 37
4052 Basel
www.papiermuseum.ch
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Tinguely Museum
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The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the famous sculptor in iron.
The permanent exhibition shows works by the artist ranging from the beginnings in the 1950s with motor-driven reliefs,
the drawing machines and the scrap metal assemblages of the sixties, to the black-painted machine structures,
large sculptures and the pandemonic cycles of his final phase.
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Closed on Mondays
Tinguely Museum
Paul Sacher-Anlage 1
4058 Basel
www.tinguely.ch
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