High school, Secondary education institution in Münchenstein, Switzerland.

The Gymnasium Münchenstein is a public Maturitätsschule in Münchenstein near Basel, made up of a main building from 1972 by Wilfrid and Katharina Steib and the associated Villa Ehinger, a Neorenaissance summer residence designed by Melchior Berri with an Italian Renaissance-style loggia entrance. The two buildings stand in an English landscape garden near the Brüglinger Ebene.

The Gymnasium Münchenstein dates back to 1964 and is the second-oldest secondary school in Canton Basel-Landschaft. Its main building, designed by Wilfrid and Katharina Steib, was built in 1972 and joins the Villa Ehinger, a Neorenaissance summer residence designed by Melchior Berri for Ludwig August Sarasin, who died in 1830 before it was finished; the villa passed to the Ehinger family through the marriage of the two Sarasin daughters. The estate went to the municipality in 1959 and to the canton in 1962, enabling the school's construction.

The school's name recalls the "Münchensteiner Initiative", a national petition for civilian service launched in the 1970s by rector Hans Hafen and former pupil Daniel Vischer; Swiss voters rejected it in 1977 with 60 percent. Today bilingual French and English matura streams and an exchange semester in French-speaking Switzerland shape daily school life.

The site is easy to reach with parking available and access to public transport in Münchenstein. Visitors should note that classes run on weekdays when the building is mainly occupied by students and staff.

In the 1970s the school and its staff, under rector Hans Hafen and former pupil Daniel Vischer, launched the "Münchensteiner Initiative", a national petition for civilian service alongside compulsory military service. The Swiss electorate rejected it in 1977 with 60 percent against, despite the Federal Council's supportive stance.