In 1941, Maja Sacher handed over the collection to Basel’s Öffentliche Kunstsammlung (Public Art Collection) on permanent loan. The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation has worked in close cooperation with that institution ever since. The contract, unprecedented in its openness and generosity, has remained in place to this day virtually unchanged. It permits the works of the Foundation to be integrated into the holdings of the Museum, thus enhancing and reinforcing them. Many of the Foundation’s works are therefore familiar to regular visitors of the Kunstmuseum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, such as Salvador Dalí’s Burning Giraffe (Girafe en feu), Robert Delaunay’s Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel) and the group of works by Joseph Beuys with his iconic Schneefall (Snowfall).