Tinguely Museum

On the banks of the Rhine in the Swiss city of Basel is an amazing museum, which exhibits striking any imagination. Museum dedicated to the work of Jean Tinguely - famous artist of the 20th century. His works represent a huge metal structure that can break or change their own shape. This kind of art is called "metamehanika."

The artist worked under the slogan "Art is born when the machine works." This expression brilliantly confirms fountain that created Tinguely and his wife Niki de Saint Phalle near the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Modernized museum building of red sandstone, erected specially for the author's work, no less unique than its exhibits. The permanent exhibition covers four decades of creative work by Jean Tinguely, a temporary exhibition is the work of authors, close to the ideas of the artist.

Opening hours: daily except Mondays, from 11 to 18 hours. Entrance fee - about 15 Swiss francs.