*You can get quite famous when you’re dead and 100 years old.<\/p>\n
Museum Tinguely looks back on an outstanding year.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Museum Tinguely welcomed 166,133 visitors, the largest number since 1998, bettered only by the two years after the museum\u2019s opening in 1996. Born in 1925, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely would have turned 100, a milestone marked with a programme of events under the title “tinguely100” that was well received by both local and international audiences: the large-scale birthday celebrations on 22 May in the museum and its park attended by around 2000 people, the unusual ghost train project Scream Machines, and the successful exhibition Julian Charri\u00e8re. Midnight Zone helped to further enhance the Museum\u2019s profile.<\/p>\n
In addition, partnerships during major events in Basel \u2013 the Eurovision Song Contest and the UEFA Women\u2019s EURO 2025 \u2013 made Tinguely better known beyond the art world. Especially during the summer weeks, more people than usual visited Museum Tinguely and took advantage of its unique riverside location on the Rhine. Sending many works from the museum\u2019s collection \u00abon tour\u00bb, accompanied by the conservation team, also turned out to have been the right decision, allowing the museum to support exhibitions and festivities across Europe that paid tribute to the innovation, playfulness and ongoing relevance of Tinguely\u2019s work beyond Switzerland\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n
For further details, please read the press release >> Read here<\/p>\n
We are at your disposal should you require further information.<\/p>\n
We wish you a peaceful new year and would like to thank you for your interest in our activities over the past year. We look forward to welcoming you in Basel hopefully sometime in 2026. <\/p>\n
Yours sincerely,
\nIsabelle Beilfuss
\nHead of Communication, Museum Tinguely<\/p>\n
On View now and upcoming exhibitions:<\/p>\n
Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
\nUntil 10 May 2026<\/p>\n
Oliver Ressler. Scenes from the Invention of Democracy
\nUntil 1 March 2026<\/p>\n
La roue = c’est tout. Permanent exhibition<\/p>\n
>> Upcoming Exhibitions 2026<\/p>\n
Caption for photo above: Solitude Park on the day of the anniversary celebration, 22 May 2025 \/ Sculpture Schwimmwasserplastik by Jean Tinguely, 1980; photo: Matthias Willi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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