Basel

The cooperation between Irene and Peter Ludwig and the cantonal "Basel Museum of Antiquities“ began in the early 1970s. Although the Museum predominantly houses works of Greek origin, there are also Italian, Etruscan and Roman artifacts from the third millennium BC to AD 300. In 1981, the Ludwigs donated a collection of 200 antiquities to the City of Basel. This significant expansion of the existing collection prompted the construction of a museum extension, which was completed in 1988. Also in 1988, the Ludwigs made a considerable number of permanent loans to the Museum. The donation and permanent loans from the Collection of Irene and Peter Ludwig comprise a wide range of Geometric, Corinthian and Attic vases to Tarentine terracotta works and antefixes, as well as bronze and marble sculpture.