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Fondation Beyeler - Kunstmuseum - Basel
The history. Over a period of fifty years, in parallel to their successful activity as gallery owners, Hildy and Ernst Beyeler built up an exceptional collection of works by modern masters. Their collection, which was transferred to a foundation in 1982, was first publicly exhibited in its entirety at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 1989. Currently comprising around 200 works, the Beyeler Collection documents a very personal view of modern art and an unerring ability to recognize quality.
http://www.beyeler.com/
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Kunstmuseum Bern - Switzerland / Schweiz
Works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Hodler and Meret Oppenheim have made the Museum of Fine Arts Bern an institution with an international reputation. At the present time, the constantly growing and evolving collection consists of over 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films. The roots of the museum’s history reach back to the revolutionary ideas proliferating towards the end of the 18th century which, in 1809, led to the founding of the National Art Collection in Bern and, in 1879, to the opening of the first museum building. The Museum of Fine Arts Bern is the oldest art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection covering eight centuries...
http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/index.cfm?nav=1245,1332&SID=2&DID=9
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Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Website of the Art Museum of Solothurn
http://www.kunstmuseum-so.ch/
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Kunstmuseum - Basel
The collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst distinguishes itself through the impressively wide historic span from the early fifthteenth century to the present and through worldwide unique groups of artworks and outstanding individual works of art. Conceived as a classic gallery and enhanced by sculptures of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, the collection also began to integrate new media such as installation, video and photography by the end of the 1960s. Together with electronic media, these have become a significant part of the holdings of contemporary art and are the focus of the current acquisition policy...
http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/home/
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