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The museum is managed by the canton of Basel-City. Its origins lie with the Amerbach family in the 16th century whose Wunderkammer was bought by Basel 1661 and brought to the public 1671. The cultural history objects of this Wunderkammer, together with the ones of other collections, became the Historisches Museum Basel in 1894.
The oldest museum in the Basel region outside the city is the Museum of Canton Basel-Country (Museum des Kantons Basel-Landschaft) in Liestal, nowadays called Museum.BL. It was founded in 1837 as a "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" (Naturaliencabinett) and up through the 1930s primarily took up objects of natural history into the collections.
As a direct consequence of the Swabian War, resolved by the 1499 Treaty of Basel, Basel and the Imperial City of Schaffhausen joined the Swiss Confederation in 1501, as the confederacy's 11th and 12th states, with Appenzell following suit 12 years later to complete the Dreizehn Orte that made up Switzerland until the French Revolutionary Wars.
Canton of Basel-Stadt: 3583.84: 201,156 [94] 5,619 Transport. ... Natural History Museum of Basel and the Museum of Cultures Basel, ...
Museum of Cultures Basel. The Museum of Cultures in Basel (German: Museum der Kulturen 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. [1]
1821 – Natural History Museum founded. 1833 – Canton of Basel divided. 1834 – Basler Stadttheater founded. 1839 – Basler Kunstverein founded. 1840 – Income tax collection begins in the canton. [15] 1850 – Population: 27,844 in city; 29,698 in canton. [16] 1864 – Elisabethenkirche built. 1867 – Allgemeine Musikschule founded.
The Reliquary of Saint Eustace is a medieval silver and wooden holy container in the shape of Saint Eustace's head that once formed part of Basel Minster's treasury. The treasury was acquired by the Canton of Basel in 1836 and shortly afterwards sold at auction to collectors and museums across Europe.
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Basel-Stadt from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 70 individual buildings, 32 collections and 3 archaeological finds.