Basel was for a long time dominated by the craft guilds, which governed the city right up to 1798. The craft guilds were professional associations which brought together craftsmen working in the same trade from the rise of the cities in the Late Middle Ages onwards. The guilds governed all matters relating to their trade and in Basel, as in other places, were for many centuries the most powerful economic, political and social force to be reckoned with.
The exhibition on the west gallery shows artefacts attesting to four centuries of rule by the craft guilds. Among them are some items of Baroque silverware marking the apogee of the art of goldsmithing in Basel.
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