Skulpturhalle Basel

The sculpture Kunsthalle Basel is a museum of casts of ancient sculptures and sculptures in Basel. With around 2,000 casts her collection is not only the largest in Switzerland, but one of the world's most important. In the last 25 years, the portfolio of casts has tripled. The management of the collection is under the Basel Museum of Antiquities since 1961.

The collection started in 1830 was from 1849 to the then newly opened museum at the Augustiner Gasse ( now the site of the Natural History Museum and the Museum of Cultures ). 1887 moved to the Basel Kunsthalle, where a wing building was built as a " sculpture hall " specially for them. 1927 collated to the casts for the temporary accommodation of the national collection of images in the Kunsthalle and consequent lack of space. In 1940, the collection of casts a provisional place in an empty factory after a construction project had failed in a referendum four years earlier; The new building was not realized until 1963.

The casts allow scattered over various museums merge factory parts and to repair so integral reconstructions of ancient works of art. Unique in the world is the " Parthenonprojekt ", in which all have been preserved remains of architectural sculpture of the Athenian Parthenon gathered in casts and so exhibited that the original context is recognizable. A series of architectural models in scale 1:20 complements the exhibition.

Head of the Sculpture Hall is currently (2010) Tomas Lochman, a son of Jan Milič Lochman.