Not the common museum. Easy to look around, nice setting and diplays.
Nice location on Munster Platz, near the overlook of the Rhein River.
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Museum of Ethnology (Museum der Kulturen Basel)
Munsterplatz 20, Basel 4051, Switzerland
41 61 266 56 00
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Ranked #7 of 52 attractions in Basel
6 Reviews
Type: Science Museums, Natural History Museums
Description: Houses one of Europe's largest collections on European and non-European cultural life.
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Having recently returned from Cental America we were looking forward to seeing the carved wooden lintels from Tikal. Sadly only one of the four owned by the museum was on display, a beautiful and amazing survival of Mayan civilisation.
Apparently this museum has Switzerland's largest ethnological and folk art collection, in which case either a very small proportion is on...
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Museum der Kulturen needed an addition and selected Herzog & de Meuron to design it. Instead of extending the building into a historical courtyard (just of the Münsterplatz), the architects decided to build up and added an extravagant roof clad in dark green ceramic tiles (concave, convex and flat). The front facade features a green curtain of plants. This museum...
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