Museum Tinguely
- Visit: about 2 h
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What's on here
FIMMENE!: Körper im Klang, Stimmen im Widerstand
Thursday · All day
Curator's Tour Schauatelier
Thursday · All day
Führung von machTheater
Sunday · All day
Führung Sammlung Jean Tinguely
Sunday · All day
Film Screening: Night for Day by Emily Wardill
Thursday · All day
Familiensonntag | Labouring Bodies
Sunday · All day
Führung Labouring Bodies
Sunday · All day
Führung in Gebärdensprache
Thursday · All dayFree
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Why go
- Mario Botta’s purpose-designed museum on the Rhine.
- A permanent display surveying four decades of Tinguely’s work.
Plan your visit
Prices
From the venue's website · checked 27 Sep 2026
Opening hours
Today11:00 – 18:00Show all
Don't miss
- Méta-MaticsThe collection includes Méta-Matics, moving sculptures that can also draw.
- GwendolynNiki de Saint Phalle donated her Nana sculpture Gwendolyn to the museum.
- Mechanical Tinguely fountainLook for the mechanical Tinguely fountain and Niki de Saint Phalle’s statues in the adjoining park.Park beside the museum
Know before you go
- Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday–Sunday: 11:00–18:00; Thursday: 11:00–21:00.
- Buy tickets online through the museum’s website. Adult admission: CHF 18.
What's inside
- Alongside the sculptures, displays include illustrations, photographs and archival material about Tinguely.
- Exhibition spaces occupy four levels, combining galleries lit by side skylights with below-ground rooms for works that do not need daylight.
- The collection includes works by Eva Aeppli and Niki de Saint Phalle, plus documents about Tinguely’s life and cultural context.
With kids
- Family tours are offered.
Tips for your visit
- Allow about two hours for a visit.
- The largest exhibition room measures 30 by 60 metres.
- From the first floor, the route connects to the upper level and either of the two lower levels.
- A covered passage between Grenzacherstrasse and the museum provides access to the museum and park.
Tours and audio guides
- Guided tour
- German · Labouring Bodies exhibition
- Guided tour
- Turkish
- Collection tour
- Led by machTheater
Interesting facts3
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The museum is protected as a Swiss cultural property of national importance.
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The central hall can accommodate up to twenty machine sculptures.
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The east and north sides shield the building from traffic noise.
Musée Tinguely - Wikipedia
Shorts
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Tinguely museum baselNeil Gaffney
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Julian Charrière: Midnight Zone / Museum Tinguely, BaselVernissageTV
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Mika Rottenberg: Cheese, 2008 at Museum Tinguely BaselVernissageTV
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Meta-maxi in work Mercedes-Benz Museum Jean TinguelyKit_top_
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2014-08-03 Basel: Tinguely Museum 01Hoa Truong
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Museum Tinguely, Basel SwitzerlandThoughtLab
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Fountain (Schwimmwasserplastik) outside the Tinguely Museum in BaselHenk Bekker
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99 SECONDS OF: JEAN TINGUELY / MUSEUM KUNSTPALASTiksmedienarchiv
History
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG gave the museum to the city and region of Basel to mark its centenary.
- 1992Niki de Saint Phalle’s gift of 52 sculptures from Tinguely’s estate founded the collection.
- 3 October 1996The museum opened.
How to get there
- On footFollow the riverside promenade to Paul Sacher-Anlage 1, 1.5 km east of Mittlere Brücke.
- BusTake bus 36 to the museum at Paul Sacher-Anlage 1.
Accessibility
- Ramp A ramp on the south side leads to the first floor and offers Rhine views.
Sources: Museum Tinguely - Wikipedia · Basel - Wikivoyage (see) · Grösste Sammlung kinetischer Werke von Jean Tin… · Öffnungszeiten – normale und Sonderöffnungszeit… · Eintrittspreise, Rabatte, Museumspässe | Museum… · Late Thursday Menu | Museum Tinguely Basel · Museum Tinguely - Wikipedia · Musée Tinguely - Wikipedia · Museo Tinguely - Wikipedia · checked 28 Sep 2026
- Website
- tinguely.ch/de.html
- Phone
- +41 61 681 93 20
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Questions and answers
Who was Jean Tinguely?
A Swiss artist internationally known for pioneering kinetic art after 1950.
Who was Museum Tinguely’s founding director?
Pontus Hultén.
Does Museum Tinguely’s collection include other artists?
Yes, including Eva Aeppli and Niki de Saint Phalle.
Does Museum Tinguely lend its works?
Works are also lent to exhibitions around the world.
What is Museum Tinguely’s collection connection to Hon?
It includes a drawing for the giant inhabitable Nana, which was later destroyed.
How did Éloge de la folie enter Museum Tinguely’s collection?
The museum acquired it after two decades in a private collection.
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