The Museum of Horsepower is special in many different respects at once. It is the first virtual museum of the Basel Historical Museum and was – before its closing in September 2016 – the only museum of its kind in Switzerland. Far away from the pulsating centre of town, this was a museum with a story to tell – the story of the early days of mobility. Its impressive collection of coaches, carriages and sleighs takes visitors on an exciting journey back in time. Standing alongside an array of luxury equipages are post coaches, heavy carts for transporting goods, assorted bridles and harnesses, liveries, and countless other objects related to horse-drawn locomotion.
Opened in 1894, the Basel Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum Basel) is one of the largest and most important museums of its kind in Switzerland, and a heritage site of national significance.
The museum is divided into four sections (buildings), three of which are within the city of Basel. These are Barfüsserkirche, Haus zum Kirschgarten and the Musikmuseum. The fourth section, the Coach and Carriage Museum lies slightly outside Basel, in the neighbouring town of Münchenstein.
The Coach and Carriage Museum (Kutschenmuseum) was opened during 1981 as the fourth section of the Basel Historical Museum.
The privately owned Coach and Carriage Museum, section can be found in a barn on the elevated plain above Brüglingen in the Park im Grünen/"Merian Park" in Münchenstein, on the southeast border of Basel. The museum building and the grounds belong to the Christoph Merian Stiftung.
In 1837 the architect Melchior Berri developed a farm house with an outbuilding with stables, a short distance north of the manor house Villa Merian, in Vorder-Brüglingen, (the area in "front" of Brüglingen). The original barn caught fire and completely burnt out in 1905. The existing replacement building is from 1906.
Items in the exhibition
Hunting carriage.
The museum exhibits:
luxury carriages
Wagons, Horse-drawn vehicles
Stagecoachs
Sledges and sleighs
Children's Coaches and Sleighs
The exhibition concentrates on coaches and sleighs from the 18th to the 20th century that belonged to Basel family estate. It documents transport, mobility and is an attest to the excellent workmanship of Basel's coachbuilders during this period. Shown are further attractions such as hunting carriages, dog carts, phaetons, coupés and landaus, as well as mail coaches, commercial horse-drawn vehicles, children's coaches and sleighs. Further exhibits are, for example, accessories such as harnesses and coachmen's liveries.
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