Museum Tinguely

15 minutes by bus (line 604, "Schifflände" stop), then correspondence with tram line 15 "Wettsteinplatz" stop, from Saint-Louis "Central crossroads. Located directly on the Rhine, the Tinguely Museum in Basel, designed by the ticinese architect Mario Botta houses the largest collection of works by Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most innovative and important Swiss artists of the XXth century.
The permanent exhibition offers an overview of his work over four decades. Temporary exhibitions regularly present a wide range of artists and subjects including not only Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, flagship artists for Tinguely, his contemporary colleagues like Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein but also both artists of 'today based on Tinguely's ideas.