Description
(Local Name: Museum für Gegenwartskunst) Basle's Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum für Gegenwartskunst) is housed in an old paper mill with modern extensions (1980 Katharina and Wilfried Steib). Works on display range from ca. 1960 and the contemporary part of the Emanuel Hoffmann collection. Especially noteworthy are works by Stella, Beuys, Chagall, de Chirico, Dali, Braque, Mondrian, Klee, Arp, Pevsner, Giacometti, Moore and Tinguely. There is an attractive trip across the Rhine to Klein-Basel by ferry.
Address
Basel Museum fur Gegenwartskunst
St Alban-Rheinweg 60
CH-4010 Basel
Switzerland
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Closed17:0017:0017:0017:0017:0017:00
Facilities
Gift shop
Restaurant or food service
Transit
Tram: 2, stop Kunstmuseum.
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