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Basel: culture pure
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It is the number and variety of its nearly forty museums and a dozen theatres - foremost among these the Theater Basel - cinemas, concert halls, Switzerlands most modern musical theatre, and various open-air concerts, that account for Basel's special charm as a city of culture.
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Museums, a public success
Basel is known for its museums, rich in tradition, not only because of its Kunstmuseum (Museum of Fine Arts), the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public. Basel now has several well-known museums, most of them famous well beyond cantonal and national borders, such as the Beyeler Foundation, the Antikenmuseum (Museum of Antiquities), the Historische Museum (History Museum), and the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures).
Theatre as a threefold stage
It is not only the Theater Basel, chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances, which ensures a rich cultural life. It is run as a threefold stage, with some thirty operatic, drama, and ballet productions a year.
Music from classics to modern
Basel is a city rich in music and offers a wide choice. Classical concerts will be given in churches and the Stadtcasino. Besides high-class local orchestras and chamber groups among them the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Basel Sinfonietta international orchestras and soloists also regularly perform there.
For lovers of rock and pop music there are several smaller halls in the inner city, the former military barracks in Kleinbasel (Lesser Basel), and the so-called Konzertfabrik Z7 (Z7 Concert Factory) in nearby Pratteln.
Basel's Musical Theater, one of Europe's most modern stages, also offers regular events. And among the region's many small theatres there is also a special English-language stage, under the aegis of the English Seminary that occupies a medieval building near the university.
Films with original soundtrack
A specialty of cinemas in Switzerland as particularly of Basel is to show foreign films with their original soundtracks, without dubbing in German, but with subtitles.
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