Beyeler foundation

The Beyeler Foundation is a collection of modern art and contemporary located at Riehen, close to Basle (Suisse).

Origins

Hildy and Ernst Beyeler collected many modern works of art, that is to say a basket of 200 paintings and sculptures to date. The collection became foundation in 1982. It was presented to the public for the first time at the Centro of Arte Reina Sofía with Madrid, in 1989.

Place

The Beyeler Foundation, inaugurated in 1997, is now a public museum, whose architect is Renzo Piano, architect also National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou to Beaubourg (Paris). This museum is placed in a park, where a mobile of Calder is ( the tree ). A bathed pond of water lilies levels the panes of three rooms of the museum.

Collection

The collection gathers impressionist, post-impressionist works and cubists of the beginning of the century (Monet, Cézanne, Rousseau, Picasso, Miro…), like currently of the works of art American of the Fifties (Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko…). The Beyeler Foundation carries out great temporary exhibitions regularly (recently on Edvard Munch, Picasso etc).

Schedules and tariffs

The museum is open the every day, including Sundays and bank holidays. Opening of 10:00 to 18:00, and Wednesday until 20:00 Adults: 23 Swiss francs (either 15 euros). Students of less than 30 years: 12 Swiss francs (either 8 euros). One can pay the entry with euros.

Access by public transport

Arrived at the Station of Basle CF (in German, SBB), to take the tram n°2 until the Messeplatz stop, then to change for the tram n°6, this until the stop Beyeler Foundation. Or, you can already travel by the train at the station, to join Riehen, before walking to join the Foundation with foot.

External bond

Site of the museum

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