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   Kunstmuseum Basel

   The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland.

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   Goetheanum

   The Goetheanum, located in Dornach, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, is the world center for the anthroposophical movement.

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   Augusta Raurica

   Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum in Switzerland located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst.

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   Basel Minster

   Basel Minster (German: Basler Münster) is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Roman Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church.

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   Vitra Design Museum

   The Vitra Design Museum is a privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany, near Basel, Switzerland. The museum building is by Frank Gehry.

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   Beyeler Foundation

   The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler, with its museum in Riehen, near Basel (Switzerland), owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern and traditional art.

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   Basel Zoo

   Zoo Basel is a zoological garden in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Its official name is Zoologischer Garten Basel — or in English: Basel Zoological Garden.

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   Museum Tinguely

   The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to the work of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925–1991). Designed by architect Mario Botta, it opened in 1996 on the banks of the Rhine.

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   Kunsthalle Basel

   Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland.

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    Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection

    The Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection) is one of the many museums in the city of Basel, Switzerland and a heritage site of national significance.

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   Dreiländereck

   The Dreiländereck is a monument in Basel, Switzerland. It marks the tripoint where the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland meet.

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   Jewish Museum of Switzerland

   The Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel provides an overview of the religious and everyday history of the Jews in Basel and Switzerland using objects of ritual, art and everyday culture from the Middle Ages to the present.

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   Benedictine abbey of Mariastein

   Mariastein Abbey (Kloster Mariastein) is a Benedictine monastery in Metzerlen-Mariastein in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland.

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   Rötteln Castle

   Rötteln Castle (German: Burg Rötteln), located above the Lörrach suburb of Haagen, lies in the extreme southwest corner of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, just 10 kilometres (6 miles) north-east of the Swiss City of Basel.

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   Elisabethenkirche

   The Elisabethenkirche, or Offene Kirche Elisabethen, is a 19th-century church building in the centre of Basel, next to the Theater Basel, in Switzerland.

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   Schaulager

   The Schaulager is a museum in Newmünchenstein, a sub-district of Münchenstein in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland.

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   Museum of Contemporary Art

   The Museum of Contemporary Art (German: Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel (Switzerland) opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present.

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   Basel Historical Museum

   The Basel Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum Basel) is one of the largest and most important museums of its kind in Switzerland and a heritage site of national significance. It opened in 1894.

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   Basel Paper Mill

   The Basel Paper Mill (German: Basler Papiermühle), also known as the Swiss Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing (German: Schweizerisches Museum für Papier, Schrift und Druck), is a museum located in Basel, Switzerland.

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    Natural History Museum of Basel

    Natural History Museum Basel (German: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel) is a natural history museum in Basel, Switzerland that houses wide-ranging collections focused on the fields of zoology, entomology, mineralogy, anthropology, osteology and paleontology.

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