Vitra Design Museum
Design museum on the Vitra Campus at Charles-Eames-Strasse 2 in Weil am Rhein, a short trip from Basel across the German border. The Frank Gehry museum building and Vitra Schaudepot present temporary exhibitions and collection displays; campus architecture tours cover buildings by Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, and others. Typical hours run daily 10:00-18:00; combined museum and Schaudepot tickets and tours book on design-museum.de. Pair with Basel fair week rather than treating Weil as a separate overnight.
- Address
- Charles-Eames-Strasse 2, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany
- Official website
- Visit site ↗
- Country
- Germany
While you're there
Leave Basel with passport and buffer for the border hop. Do museum plus one architecture tour rather than racing every pavilion; return to Basel for dinner.
Pro Tip: Buy Schaudepot and tour tickets online the night before Art Basel public days; campus desks slow when half the fair week decides to cross the border at once.
- Best for
- A design-museum and campus architecture day from Basel.
- Pair with
- Offene Kirche Elisabethen for the Basel church salon the same week.
- Season / timing
- Art Basel June weeks pack the campus; weekday mornings outside fair week stay calmer.