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FONDATION BEYELER

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Baselstrasse 101, Basel, Switzerland
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2024
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2024

In Riehen, near Basel, this magnificent building was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also created the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Nestled in an English-style park, amid wheat fields and lily ponds, this luminous structure blends into the landscape, surrounded by a winter garden and the Villa Berower, home to the museum's restaurant. Here, nature, art and architecture coexist in perfect harmony.

Founded by Basel gallery owners Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, collectors of 20th-century masters, the foundation, inaugurated in 1997, houses a vast collection of 400 works of post-impressionist, modern and contemporary art, plus 30 ethnographic objects from Africa, Oceania and Alaska, which are presented several times a year in changing exhibitions. Thematic exhibitions devoted to cities and artistic movements that played a decisive role in the development of modern art are also regularly organized. The founding couple had a clear vision for their foundation: an open, lively museum capable of inspiring a broad public with a love of art, and which would not only promote cultural education, but also encourage exchange. Today, the Foundation's worldwide reputation makes it one of Switzerland's most popular museums. It is also one of the most beautiful, thanks to the generous proportions of its halls, which display works of art in remarkable natural light.

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zugwin
Visited in september 2019
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Superbe musée parfaitement intégré dans son environnement
Le fil artistique de Picasso est très bien explicité au travers de ces œuvres mises très professionnellement en scène.
diabolim
Visited in september 2019
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Superbe bâtiment.Les jardins et l'aménagement extérieur sont splendides. Les expos sont de grande qualité. prix d'entrée très élevé.
Fcb90130
Visited in april 2019
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Visite lors de l'exposition Picasso. Musée situé à proximité du centre de Bâle avec parking en face (attention, il est vite complet les jours de grandes affluences).
Prix d'entrée cohérent pour se genre d'exposition
Visited in january 2018
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Très décevant car la fondation était en partie fermée pour installer la prochaine exposition et nous n'avons vu que Klee.Très cher pour voir des toiles que nous n'apprécions pas forcément.Bien se renseigner avant d'y aller
Visited in february 2017
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Belle Center. Beautiful building. Fine collection. Often beautiful temporary exhibitions (currently Monet): a real treat.

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