15.10. - 27.10.2019

35 Years of S AM

Vernissage: 14 October 2019, 7 PM
Auction: 26 October 2019, 11 AM

The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum is celebrating its 35thbirthday this year. This retrospective traces the development of the museum, bringing together publications, posters by Claudiabasel and artefacts from the over 170 exhibitions put on by the institution to date.
The archival materials will be complemented by a collection of architectural drawings, models and other ephemera gifted to the museum by its members and supporters for this occasion. These “birthday gifts” will be handed over by the donors at the opening and will be integrated into the retrospective in the form of a wunderkammer. At the end of the exhibition, the objects will be sold in an auction benefitting the museum.

Admission: free
The vernissage and auction are open to the public.

 

The exhibition was supported by:
Exhibition Partners:
GROHE Switzerland SA
ComputerWorks AG
Plakatsammlung SFG Basel
Kurt Hauser AG
Blütezeit

S AM Supporters:
Abteilung Kultur des Kantons Basel-Stadt
Christoph Merian Stiftung

S AM Sponsors:
ComputerWorks AG
Zumtobel Licht AG
Truninger AG

S AM Partners:
SIA Schweizerischer Ingenieur und Architektenverein
Levante Software
Karl Bubenhofer AG

S AM Media Partner:
Transhelvetica

 

Upcoming exhibitions

27.09. - 09.11.2025

SAY Swiss Architecture Yearbook

5.30 PM Booklaunch,  7 PM Opening

The second edition of the Swiss Architecture Yearbook is here (available from September 26)!
An independent selection committee chose 30 projects and four special mentions from a pool of 158 nominations. The accompanying exhibition at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel showcases Baukultur from all regions of Switzerland. The show is an invitation to reflect on central questions in contemporary architecture: Which topics are relevant today? Which projects demonstrate exemplary solutions? And what might the future hold for building in Switzerland?
Curated by the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum and the magazine werk, bauen+wohnen.​

Publication: S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum (Andreas Ruby) and werk, bauen + wohnen (Roland Züger), on behalf of Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS (Eds.): ‹SAY 2025/26›.
Park Books, ISBN 978-3-03860-456-3, 272 Pages, EN/DE/FR/IT, CHF 49.–

29.11.2025 - 19.04.2026

Housing for Housing: The cooperative as a laboratory for coexistence

The exhibition presents cooperative housing regionally, nationally and internationally as a laboratory of non-profit-oriented cohabitation from which the entire city can benefit.