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Basel was a canton of Switzerland that was in existence between 1501 and 1833, when it was split into the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. [ 1 ] Background
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.
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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.
1894 – Basel Historical Museum opens. 1897 – City hosts the first Zionist congress. 1900 – Population: 109,161 in city; 112,227 in canton. [16] 1907 – Basel SBB railway station built. 1912 – City hosts Second International meeting. 1913 – Basel Badischer Bahnhof built (approximate date). 1917 Schweizer Mustermesse Basel begins.
When the canton of Jura was created in 1979, the district of Laufental became an enclave of the canton of Bern. It was allowed self- determination and in 1980 the people decided to join the canton of Basel-Landschaft. This led to Laufental joining the canton of Basel-Landschaft on 1 January 1994 after a lengthy administrative process.
The Schaulager in Münchenstein/Basel. The Schaulager is a museum in Newmünchenstein, a sub-district of Münchenstein in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland.. Built in 2002/2003 under commission of the Laurenz Foundation, it was designed by the renowned architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron, the Schaulager opened in 2003.
When the Canton of Basel was split during violent conflicts in the early 1830s, the Minster Treasure was split between the two resulting half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. The Federal Diet of Switzerland , which by its actions had allowed the partition to continue, decreed on November 25, 1833, that the treasure would be split, with ...