Museum Tinguely

Basel
Switzerland
Museum Tinguely
Museum Tinguely
Museum Tinguely
Art
Experiencing art - Moving art appealing to all your senses.
Liveliness, laughter and the pleasure of discovery. A museum that sets the senses in motion and where the art comes to the viewer.

With his kinetic artworks, Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) was a pioneering figure in the art of the period after 1950. Museum Tinguely, designed by Mario Botta, is located directly at the Rhine and presents the world's largest collection of his work, of which a selection is on permanent display, from the delicate early reliefs to the monumental machine sculptures of the 1980s.

Museum Tinguely shows a varied temporary exhibition programme that seeks dialogue with other artists, art forms and disciplines, promising an interactive museum experience for all of the senses.

A diverse programme of events – with guided tours and workshops for all age groups, concerts, artistic interventions and interdisciplinary cooperations – allows visitors to experience the museum's collection and exhibitions in a wide range of ways.

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Address

Museum Tinguely

Paul Sacher-Anlage 1
4002
Basel
Switzerland
Opening hours
Open all year from
Tuesday - Wednesday: 11:00-18:00
Thursday: 11:00-21:00
Friday - Sunday: 11:00-18:00

Closed on
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+41 61 681 93 20

Currently in this museum

Hands playing string figures, video still © Christoph Oeschger
Exhibition
Basel
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Switzerland

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, lengths of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the ...

Jean Tinguely's Rotozaza III in the shop window of the Loeb department stores' in Bern, October 1969 © Staatsarchiv des Kantons Bern, photo: Fredo Meyer-Henn
Exhibition
Basel
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Switzerland

For decades, there have been close links between the histories of art and shop window display. Besides Jean Tinguely, many other artists have designed pioneering window displays. Conversely, window ...

Suzanne Lacy, De tu puno y letra (By Your Own Hand), 2014-2015. Quito, Ecuador. Courtesy the artist, Foto: Hai Zhang, courtesy Queens Museum
Exhibition
Basel
,
Switzerland

In her video installation De tu puño y letra (By Your Own Hand) (2014–2015/2019), Suzanne Lacy puts us in the middle of a bull fighting arena and confronts us with harrowing accounts of women’s ...

ulian Charrière, Midnight Zone Behind the scenes Copyright the artist; 2024 ProLitteris, Zürich, Foto: Antoine Drancey
Exhibition
Basel
,
Switzerland

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how the human being inhabits the world, and how it in turn inhabits us. In a comprehensive solo exhibition, Museum Tinguely presents ...

Jean Tinguely: Fatamorgana, Méta-Harmonie IV (detail), 1985,  420 x 1,250 x 220 cm Iron frame, wooden wheels, plastic parts, percussion instruments, light bulbs, electric motors © 2023 ProLitteris, Zurich; photo: Museum Tinguely Basel, Christian Bauer
Exhibition
Basel
,
Switzerland

According to Tinguely, ‘we live in a wheeled civilisation’. Even today, our lives are shaped largely by the relationship between man and machine and the resulting dependencies that Tinguely ...