Museum of Cultures
The Museum of Cultures in Basel is a Swiss museum of ethnography with large and important collections of artifacts, especially from Europe, the South Pacific, Mesoamerica, Tibet, and Bali. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Basel (Switzerland)
- Also known as: “Museum der Kulturen”
- Address: Münsterplatz 20, Basel, 4051
- Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Bala Biott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Natural History Museum of Basel and Basel Minster.
Natural History Museum of Basel
Museum
Photo: Basmus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Natural History 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.
Basel Minster
Church
Basel Minster is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Roman Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church. The original cathedral was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles. Basel Minster is situated 170 metres southeast of Museum of Cultures.
Kunstmuseum Basel
Museum
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. Kunstmuseum Basel is situated 470 metres southeast of Museum of Cultures.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosental and Basel-Gundeldingen.
Binningen
Town
Photo: Daendy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Binningen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is nestled in a valley, on a plateau, and on two hills overlooking the city of Basel. Binningen is situated 3 km southwest of Museum of Cultures.
Museum of Cultures
- Categories: ethnographic museum, memory institution, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-City, Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.5572° or 47° 33′ 26″ northLongitude
7.59028° or 7° 35′ 25″ eastElevation
273 metres (896 feet)Open location code
8FV9HH4R+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 475822618OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
10228606Wikidata ID
Q639818
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Tosk Albanian—“Museum of Cultures” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մշակույթների թանգարան”
- Chinese: “巴塞爾文化博物館”
- Dutch: “Culturenmuseum”
- Dutch: “Museum of Cultures”
- French: “musée des cultures de Bâle”
- French: “Musée des cultures de Bâle”
- German: “Museum der Kulturen Basel”
- German: “Museum für Völkerkunde”
- German: “Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde”
- Italian: “Museo delle culture di Basilea”
- Portuguese: “Museu das Culturas”
- Spanish: “Museo de las Culturas de Basilea”
- Swiss German: “S Baasler Museum vo de Kulture”
- Tosk Albanian: “Museum der Kulturen Basel”
- “Museum der Kulturen Basel”
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