Art and Design
With around 1,000 students and staff, the Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK Basel) is a multifaceted learning, teaching and research community. It is located in historic buildings that were formerly a customs warehouse, as well as in a new high-rise building on Basel's Dreispitz site.
The studio building, high-rise building, Campus.workshops, FoodCultureLab and “der TANK” exhibition space are all within walking distance of each other around Freilager-Platz. This square forms the centre of a neighbourhood with players from art and culture, design and the creative industries. The high-rise building and studio building house the institutes with their degree programmes, the media library, the exhibition and discourse space CIVIC, the general infrastructure, and a cafeteria and bistro.
Immediate neighbours of the HGK Basel include the exhibition space and library of the Basel School of Design (SfG), the HEK House of Electronic Arts, the archive building of the Herzog & de Meuron architectural firm, the Kunsthaus Baselland, the studios of the international scholarship programme for artists Atelier Mondial, and RadioX.
A Place for Art and Design
Opening hours
Rezeption (Building D, Tower Block)
Monday through Friday | 07.30 - 12.00 Uhr |
13.00 - 17.00 Uhr |
Getting there
Public transport
The Campus is easy to reach by public transport. The stop Freilager on BLT line 11 is immediately in front of the Campus (from Bahnhof SBB in direction Aesch)
By car
Leave the motorway A2 at the junction Basel-St. Jakob and follow the sign Dreispitz. Approaching from Münchensteinerstrasse enter the Dreispitz complex through Gate 13 and park your car in one of the public car parks (Ruchfeld or Leimgrube). When setting your satnav, please note that the Freilager complex is part of the municipality of Münchenstein, Canton Basel-Landschaft.
Note: Access by car for people with disabilities
Choose the access via Florenz-Strasse in the direction of the tower block (Building D). To lower the bollard at the gates of the Campus, please ring the bell. You will be connected to our reception in Building D.
Postal address
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Freilager-Platz 1
Postfach
CH-4002 Basel
Visitor and delivery address
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Freilager Platz 1,Tower building, Reception
4142 Münchenstein b. Basel
T + 41 61 228 44 00
F + 41 61 228 44 44
M info.hgk@fhnw.ch
Accessibility
The HGK Basel buildings are accessible by wheelchair, pushchair and for people with walking difficulties. The entrance to the high-rise building is at ground level, and the studio building can be accessed via a ramp. Both buildings have at least one lift and toilets for people with disabilities as well as gender-neutral toilets on every floor.