Basel Town Hall - Switzerland 2019 Stock Photo

The city is known for its many internationally renowned museums, ranging from the Kunstmuseum, the first collection of art accessible to the public in Europe 1661 and the largest museum of art in the whole of Switzerland, to the Fondation Beyeler located in Riehen. The University of Basel, Switzerland`s oldest university founded in 1460, and the city`s centuries-long commitment to humanism, have made Basel a safe haven at times of political unrest in other parts of Europe for such notable people as Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Holbein family, Friedrich Nietzsche and in the 20th century also Hermann Hesse and Karl Jaspers.