Basel - not just for EasyJet!

My mom flew to London with EasyJet, so I accompanied her to Basel for the day before her flight. I'd only been there for EasyJet and carnival, so it was nice to have a chance to check out the city.

We went to Jean Tinguely Museum, which was a collection of the artist's work, which mostly fell under the category of kinetic art. There were lots of complex machines that would come to life when activated by foot pedal. They were all very facinating, though lots of the art was very morbid and dark.

After the museum we went on a hunt around the city for the Tinguely fountain (we had forgotten to bring our Basel map walking around, oops!). We finally found it just in time for my mom to catch her train to the airport...it was cool though, and well worth the search.







My mom and a super hardcore tree


















Looking out over the river towards Basel










Walking through the park on the way to the museum













Large machine filling a main room of the museum (you can climb on this one!)














Hanging, whirling machines hanging at the entrance












My mom watching the machines at work (I took this pic from a top the largest machine!)













There was some cool story about this woman and how she watched out over the water, but I don't remember it











Creepy machines in the dark lower levels of the museum














Cool composition of my mom looking at some art
















The other section of the museum had some art...crazy stuff













Creepy...















The Tinguely fountain, really cool, water flying every which way!