Kunstmuseum Basel

The Kunstmuseum Basel ranks among the most renowned institutions of its kind in Europe and beyond. Its world-famous collection, the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, now encompasses around 4.000 paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos as well as 300.000 drawings and prints from seven centuries. Its historic nucleus is the Amerbach Cabinet, the art collection built by Basilius Amerbach, a prominent citizen of Basel. It was purchased by the city and the university in 1661 and displayed to the public starting in 1671, arguably making it the world’s oldest municipal art collection.

This museum greets you in the following languages: D/F/I/E
Opening 1661

Next exhibition(s)

The Incredible world of photography. Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection

18.07.2020 - 04.10.2020

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A portrait of the unique collection of photographs built by Ruth and Peter Herzog, the exhibition unfurls an «encyclopedia of life» to open up unexpected perpectives on the history of photography from its early days to the 1970s.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D

Rembrandt. Etchings from the second Kornfeld donation

17.10.2020 - 17.01.2021

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The exhibition honors the renowned Berne-based auctioneer and collector Eberhard W. Kornfeld, who will give thirty-one etchings by Rembrandt to the museum. The works are shown together with another set of Rembrandts he donated to the museum in 2005.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D

Rembrandt's Orient. West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century

31.10.2020 - 14.02.2021

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The Dutch were cosmopolitans even in the seventeenth century: the exhibition conveys the fascination that the Orient – seen through the prisms of works of art, objects of utility, and individuals – held for Rembrandt and his contemporaries

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D

Kara Walker, Drawings 1993-2020. A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be

05.06.2021 - 26.09.2021

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The brilliant and provocative African-American artist Kara Walker (b. 1969) presents drawings from the past twenty-seven years that have never been on public display

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D