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
Contact and additional information
+41 61 681 93 20

Currently and upcoming

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
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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 ...

Bernhard Luginbühl and Jean Tinguely, Le Crocrodrome de Zig & Puce, 1977, 55 x 120 cm, modified exhibition flyer with black felt-tip pen, gouache, and collage. © 2025 Pro Litteris, Zurich, Museum Tinguely, Basel. Donated by Prof. Dr. Roland Bieber in memory of Karola Mertz-Bieber.
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Scream Machines, a large-scale installation designed by British artist Rebecca Moss and Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez, will take visitors on a 1–2-minute journey through an immersive artistic ...

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

Julian Charrière, Albedo, 2024. Copyright the artist; 2025 Prolitteris, Zürich
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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
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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 ...

Oliver Ressler, Footage of the new production for Scenes from the Invention of Democracy, Videostill, 2024, Copyright the artist
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‘What is Democracy?’ This is the question at the centre of Oliver Ressler's eponymous video installation from 2009, for which he interviewed activists and analysts around the world. In view of climate ...

Carl Cheng, Alternative TV #3, 1979. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, photo: Ruben Diaz
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Nature Never Loses surveys six decades of the prescient, genre-defying practice of artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942, San Francisco; lives and works in Santa Monica), whose ever-evolving body of work engages ...