Museum of Contemporary Art, Art museum in Basel, Switzerland

The Museum of Contemporary Art (Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart) occupies a former paper factory in the St. Alban valley, converted in 1978–1979 by the Basel architects Steib+Steib into a two-part building of old structure and new addition. It shows art made from the 1960s onward, collecting video art since 1971 alongside painting and sculpture. Works come from the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation.

The museum opened in 1980 as the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the first public building in Europe devoted solely to contemporary art production and practice. It grew from a proposed loan of contemporary works that Italian collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo offered Basel in the mid-1970s; the loan fell through, but the city built the museum anyway. The Christoph Merian Stiftung converted a former paper factory in the St. Alban valley, adding a new wing by Basel architects Steib+Steib in 1978–1979. Patron Maja Sacher-Stehlin funded much of it on condition that the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung show Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation works there. Renamed Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart in 2016, it was renovated in 2005.

The building in the St. Alban-Tal quarter is a converted paper factory, rebuilt in 1978–1979 by the Basel architects Steib+Steib with an added new wing. Funding came largely from patron Maja Sacher-Stehlin, on condition that the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung show Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation works there. The museum has been called Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart since 2016.

The museum occupies a converted former paper factory in the St. Alban-Tal, rebuilt in 1978–1979 by the Basel architects Steib+Steib and renovated in 2005. It is part of the Kunstmuseum Basel, so combined tickets cover both houses. The site is a Swiss cultural property of national significance.

The building in the St. Alban-Tal quarter is a converted paper factory, rebuilt in 1978–1979 by the Basel architects Steib+Steib with an added new wing. Funding came largely from patron Maja Sacher-Stehlin, on condition that the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung show Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation works there. The museum has borne the name Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart since 2016.