Fondation Beyeler Reviews

Wonderful Edward Hopper exhibition. Must see museum.

wonderful collection, beautiful building, peaceful surroundings allows you to contemplate outstanding works of art

Very nice exhibitions, entry a little expensive, no catalog in French

A beautiful site, a beautiful permanent collection, and the Picasso Blue and Red exhibit was incredible! I feel lucky to have been in Switzerland as it was going on!!!

The Fondation Beyeler is an astounding place to visit. A worth-to-visit-place with collection of immersive and phenomenal artworks surrounded by a nice garden. Enjoy the beautiful art and uniqueness that is shown.

Beautiful building and beautiful garden with beautiful various collection

Highly recommended every exhibition is well presented

Great to have such a musuem right over the border. Always super shows and more expensive as in Europa Park is not.

Prestigious own art collection and spectacular art exhibitions

Very nice exterior building and very functional inside for exhibitions. Very good organization for the klee exhibition

Rihen Switzerland. Beyeler Foundation. Renzo Piano project. Museum space dedicated to temporary exhibitions. Outside there is a beautiful garden where you can stroll and areas dedicated to live and non-live concerts. Spaces dedicated to children to interest them in painting and sculpture.

AVOID !! Avoid right now! No e-tickets available yesterday - no reason mentioned. Today drove from Zurich to Basel. At 10.05 a.m., 5 minutes after the opening, we were told at the box office that there were no more tickets. No notice on the homepage - they don't have the situation under control.

Superb, but the entrance with tickets already printed was very complicated

A very nice collection of works by Picasso from different periods of his life, but a very full exhibition. Best stop by as early as possible.

Peaceful. There is a flower field at the back if you following the wall of the museum

Well-made modern building, well served by public transport and welcoming

Not too crowded. Enough place left for the pictures.

As always worth a trip. Picasso a good reason to start the museum night in Beyeler. As Bhaltis to be gifted with a Picasso T-shirt.

one of the greatest museums. the exhibitions great every time. the museum is surrounded by a beautiful garden.

I am the organizer of a university trip and I can only give a negative evaluation to this museum.
I have organized and managed many activities with my association and I can say that I have never found myself as bad as in this museum.
The customer service is inesisntente, the organization and professionalism of the staff is practically zero, but above all we were greeted very badly by the cashier, who turned to us with rude and rude tones, discriminating and treating us worse than animals

Here is a small account of the story.
After several emails several weeks before departure to ask for clarification and inform the structure of our arrival (56 people), without ever receiving a response from the museum, we arrive at the structure on a Sunday morning.
Being all students under the age of 26, we had the right to enter for free. The cashier noticed our group and probably unprepared for this situation turns to us rudely saying that we should have notified of our arrival, I reply that we had written several emails, but she replies me saying that the emails do not use it (but then why do they have an email address ???).
Subsequently, in an increasingly rude way, it obliges us to deliver all the documents together, once collected and aware of the obvious impossibility of checking them all, it tells us that we cannot enter with backpacks, cameras and sketchbooks and that we had to leave everything on the bus preventing us in fact, the use of the wardrobe does not clarify the reason. With the arrival of a museum guard who forces us to stand against a wall, the cashier always returns the documents in a very rude way throwing us in the hands as if it were garbage. At the end of the redistribution we notice the lack of a passport. A girl asks the cashier if she can politely check if it is left to her, the cashier replies giving him mad.
Once I put everything on the bus that I had to return specifically for this fact, I take a list of the students that I present at the cashier, the cashier at this point prints the free tickets, (I can point out that the list could be clearly false, in addition that incomplete of the requested data, since I only needed to make the appeal).

Once we entered the museum and had the queue formed at the cashier disposed of, a girl from the group who can speak German offered to help us by talking to the cashier, but returning without saying anything and that the woman had turned to her in a manner very rude and rude.
So we decide to turn to some girls who were distributing audio guides. We tell her that there had been a huge problem at the entrance, that a passport had been lost and that if it had not been found we would have had to call the police for a complaint. The girl immediately makes a phone call and tells us to wait, returning a couple of minutes later with the passport!

So we decide to go and notify the cashier of the find, who always tells us very aggressively that the passport had been found by a man in the museum's gardens! (in an area opposite the cash register that we had not yet visited!) all this to avoid admitting that in reality it had fallen into the cash box at the time of the return.

Also inside the museum many kids were given pens that they used to draw, since according to them if forgotten on the sofas they could be taken by the children to draw on the paintings!

I can say that a situation, incompetence, so little hospitality, professionalism and good manners I have never been able to find them anywhere.

We had chosen a public leadership. The lady spoke very quietly and discussed with 2-3 people each minute details, so we left after about 15 minutes the lead. Pity about the money.

Great architecture, beautiful park and great events for families with children, especially in summer there is this family day where kidis can do a lot of creative work themselves, and all outside in the park, surrounded by beautiful old trees and a great, uncomplicated mood.
The staff of the museum itself should still work on the customer-friendliness. Otherwise everything was great.

Great museum. Edward Hopper exhibition is super. Such a relaxing park-like atmosphere

Very nice, large exhibition spaces.
Well said images. Hopper, awesome

Excellent exhibitions and collection. Vernissage and guided tour top. Beside the Louisiana Museum of Denmark one of the best place to focus on its key message: the art!

An excellent and impressive collection of art in a lovely setting in the Swiss countryside. A visit is highly recommended. There is a great restaurant as well with outdoor sitting - perfect for a nice warm day!

By far the most beautiful and pleasant museum in Switzerland.

A very nice place with top-class exhibitions. The rooms are well divided and the park surrounding the building is magical.

A fantastic building in a beautiful garden. The collections are definitely worth seeing and very impressive

Very good, many people, light in the museum is not ideal

Please note that the permanent collection is not always accessible. They consider it a gift compared to the temporary exhibition ... In this case too expensive.

Beautiful photography museum, beautiful exhibition of paintings.

Cool museum, cool staff, I really like the taste of the exposition but I think about this topic it really depends on what they are exposing. But what I liked from the time I visit was that it felt in motion and alive. They also had a place for you to interact with and collaborate with other people to create art that was very cool.

A beautiful presentation of a formative period of this century painter. Images that have changed the world!

Beautiful museum, great exhibits if you like contemporary and modern art.

Incredible building, well-kept garden that is worth visiting. The temporary exhibitions are always surprising. It is worth visiting and paying attention to the architecture of the building. They sell works of art from painters who have exhibited!

Stunning architecture to expose paintings and sculptures. Rich permanent exhibition and always excellent temporary exhibitions.

Nice museum. Great exhibition on Monet, a bit entertaining but worth seeing

Always great exhibitions with exciting tours by experts.

Adequate setting for painting exhibitions - this time Edward Hopper

A wonderful place! Whether with or without exhibition worth a visit!

Very well made Picasso exhibition! Both classic and super made in the media. Congratulations to those responsible!

Amazing Rothkos and setting. Could be a lot cheaper for admission! Box office could also loose the snobbish attitude; you're no Guggenheim...

Probably the best art collection I've ever seen, presented in a stunning museum. An absolute must see in Switzerland.

The Picasso exhibition surpasses all expectations. Fantastically designed, well documented, and the exhibition catalog is a must! Thank you very much, that the Beyeler-Fondation offers us something unique. I will come to look at these pictures a second time.

The Picasso exhibition is worth seeing, even if you do not like the art of Picasso so much. Because she shows the development of his painting very well.

A very nice art museum with many exhibitions of well-known artists like Balthus, Kandinsky (past) and so on also contemporary art

Beautiful place, peaceful despite attendance. The exhibition on the blue and pink period of Picasso is beautiful. I will go back there.

Great terrain in a quiet atmosphere thanks to its own park. With it a nice cafe including food offer.

Experience another great structure by Italian architect Renzo Piano while taking in art from the 19th through 21st century. If you are 65 and have ID the museum is Free. Take the 6 Tram to the end of the line. 17 stops from Motel 1.

Loved the art collection and the beautiful gardens surrounding the museum. Tranquil and peaceful

Exquisite selection of paintings and sculptures.
In a nice ambiance, the Fondation Beyeler also invites you to sell it after the art exhibition.

Impressive private collection of great works from around the world.

A museum in Basel, what is there to suspend? A wonderful collection by the visionary collector Ernst Beyeler in an equally visionary architecture by Renzo Piano. I've never seen so many Giacometti sculptures together. Admission quite expensive, but not really, because we are here in Switzerland;)

Our visit to the Fondation Beyeler today left me utterly disappointed. In past years the gallery offered a balance of classic artists incl. Monet, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gaugin etc. and modern art. This balance has been displaced. Instead we encounter one sinlge classic piece by Hodler (1913) juxtaposed with a room full of grey glass panes, a "man pissing on chair", and a live display of a woman slowly writhing on the floor.
Art will affect people differently, but it left my children bewildered and me with a twisted nauseaus feeling in my stomach.
Although our visit was a failure, I hope that it will inspire my children to create art that is more compelling and beautiful.