Museum Tinguely - une Merveille

Last weekend I've been to Basel (CH) to visit the Museum Tinguely, which tourn out to be very interesting!
The artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) is a famous swiss artist who made machine-sculptures:

The machine sculptures engage in a loud and multi-coloured conversation with the onlooker: Through his works, Jean Tinguely communicates and interacts with the spectator. The machine functions and becomes art. Tinguely’s artworks sparkle with wit, vitality, irony and poetry. Seen against a deeper background, though, they also reveal a feeling for tragicomedy, for the enigmatic and inscrutable. (www.tinguely.ch/en)

He grew up in Basel and then went to Paris, where he became famous. His second wife was the famous artist Niki de Saint-Phalle. Toghether they made many works of art, like the famous fountain Tinguely-StPhalle in Paris' Place Stravinsky, near the Centre Pompidou.
The museum is very impressive: it has specially been made by the swiss architect Mario Botta and it contains many different works of the artist: machines, objects turned into pieces of arts, collaborations with his wife,...It is an interactive museum, where the spectator become part of the whole by starting the "creatures" of Tinguely with buttons.

Actually there is also an Exhibition called Robot Dreams, abour AI and Robotics in a contemporary art concept.

The visit takes 2.5-3 hours
Opening hours: tue-sun 11°°-19°°, monday closed
Price: Adults 15.- , Students&Co. 10.-, Children up to 16 free entry
-> http://www.tinguely.ch/en