Museum of Cultures, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland Having realised that I’d not written about the Museum of Ancient Art, I also realised that I’d not written about the excellent Museum of Cultures. Silly me. The museum has its origins in the 1840s, when artworks and artefacts collected by travellers and merchants were donated to the city. Over the years,…
Sun, Moon and Stars Exhibition, Museum of Culture, Basel, Switzerland The excellent Museum of Culture regularly holds exhibitions which help to highlight certain themes within its collection. When I visited, they had an interesting exhibition which looked at the way the universe shapes people on earth – from the way we create calendars, to the gods we worship. Because of the…
Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection, Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland Recently, Sister-Chickpea asked me why I’d never ended up writing up a post about the Basel Museum. Honestly, it’s because I’ve had such a backlog of posts to write, I’d forgotten about it. Then I found out that they were closing many of the galleries to…
Basel Art Museum, Basel Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland I had been looking forward to visiting Basel’s Art Museum ever since I first read about it in a guide book. Apart from the fact that it has a formidable group of works by the city’s son, Holbein the Younger, the museum also supposedly has one of the largest and best collections in…
Basel, Switzerland I really like Basel. It has a very solid, Germanic, clean, gently sophisticated, sensible air. It wasn’t really a surprise, therefore that its Christmas markets had the same spirit. We visited on a Sunday afternoon, and it was wonderful to see so many families out together. It wasn’t noisy, it wasn’t even uncomfortable when there were crowds in…