Guided Tour
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM
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Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Basel
«Schau, ich bin blind, schau.» From Rémy Zaugg to John Baldessari — The collection of Hans and Monika Furer
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The show throws light on Zaugg’s sustained and probing scrutiny of the phenomenon of perception. Opening with his “remarks” on Paul Cézanne’s famous painting La maison du pendu (1872–1873)—in which Zaugg replaces fragmentary elements with literal descriptions—the display also ...
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Kunstmuseum Basel
«Schau, ich bin blind, schau.» Von Rémy Zaugg bis John Baldessari – Die Sammlung Hans und Monika Furer
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
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Guided Tour
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
50 Exponate – 100'000 Jahre Basler Geschichte
11.00 AM
Vom Faustkeil der Neandertaler über den Taler von Konrad von Burgund (937-993) zum Mustermesse-Tramschild von 2019. bekannte und überraschende Objekte führen durch die Ereignisse und die Entwicklungen der Stadt und Region von den ersten menschlichen Spuren bis heute.
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The Ammonite & Thunderbolt exhibition houses rocks from north west Switzerland that are between 16,000 and 250 million years old. They include the most important groups of micro-fossils, plants and invertebrates. These also include numerous fossils of aquatic creatures such ...
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Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Basel
Antoni Clavé / James Coignard. Focus Im Obersteg Collection
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Catalan native Antoni Clavé was considered one of the most important Spanish artists of the 20th century during the postwar era. Residing in France after 1939, his art was built on artisanal craftsmanship and a notable delight in experimentation with the application and ...
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Architecture tours (in English)
11.30 AM - 1.30 PM
The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Architecture tours (in English)
2.00 PM - 4.00 PM
The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Architecture tours (in German)
11.00 AM - 1.00 PM
The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Architecture tours (in German)
1.30 PM - 3.30 PM
The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...
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Exhibition
Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel
Arte popolare napoletana
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
One area of our museum's collection of miniatures is dedi- cated to the Neapolitan folk art of nativity-scene making. The exhibition with its scenes of typical everyday Mediter- ranean life conveys a unique insight into the life of the citizens of 18th-century Naples. The ...
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Exhibition
Augusta Raurica
Augusta Raurica animal park
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Roman travellers were greeted at the gates of Augusta Raurica by an ostentatious funerary monument of a confident individual which paid homage to his influential family. Nowadays the monument stands in front of the east gate and, surrounded by an idyllic animal park with rare ...
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Exhibition
Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Automaton Music 4.0. 4 décennies, 4 thèmes, une exposition et des perspectives musicales
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
April 1979 saw the opening of the Museum of Music Automatons founded by Dr. h.c. Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher. Initially run as a private museum, it became a state institution in 1990 when the founder donated it to the Swiss Confederation.
To mark its anniversary, the ...
To mark its anniversary, the ...
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Exhibition
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Basel Carnival
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Basel Fasnacht (carnival) is a large festival of sounds and dreams, of colour and fantasy, but also of criticism and mockery. It has been evolving over the last 100 years. Since then, and now, this carnival has inspired the population and artists of this city into active ...
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Exhibition
Museum Kleines Klingental
Basler Münster. A once in a millennium building
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
On the occasion of the 1,000-year anniversary of the Heinrichs-Münster, the museum is staging a special exhibition which presents the varied construction history of the Basler Münster.
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Exhibition
Museum.BL
Bathing beauties and beach boys
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The 1930s were not only politically moving. The desire for sun, air and physical activity called for comfortable clothing. The company Hanro designed and produced in Liestal fashionable bathing and beach dresses for the international market.
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Exhibition
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
We are impressed and fascinated by bigness. Nowadays we tend to live, think and build entirely in terms of superlatives. The new permanent exhibition brings the big world to the museum, showcasing huge objects but, surprisingly, also many small exhibits. Because big doesn't ...
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Exhibition
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Bima, Mr Punch, and Demon
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
We are all familiar with the theatre. A very common and popular form is the puppet theatre in various forms. The exhibition presents stick puppets, shadow play figures, glove puppets, and marionettes from across Asia and Europe. The narratives in which they feature are ...
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Guided Tour
Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)
1.40 PM - 2.00 PM
A description of the history of the Seewen Britannic organ combined with live performances of piano and organ music.
In 2007, while the museum’s mighty Welte Philharmonie organ was in the process of being restored, evidence came to light testifying to the ...
In 2007, while the museum’s mighty Welte Philharmonie organ was in the process of being restored, evidence came to light testifying to the ...
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Guided Tour
Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)
3.40 PM - 4.00 PM
A description of the history of the Seewen Britannic organ combined with live performances of piano and organ music.
In 2007, while the museum’s mighty Welte Philharmonie organ was in the process of being restored, evidence came to light testifying to the ...
In 2007, while the museum’s mighty Welte Philharmonie organ was in the process of being restored, evidence came to light testifying to the ...
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Exhibition
Augusta Raurica
Children? Children! Searching for traces in Augusta Raurica
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Who were the children of Augusta Raurica? What kind of childhood did they have? Did they have toys? Did they go to school? Or did they, like the adults, have to work? During the town’s heyday, some 15,000 people lived in Augusta Raurica. One third were less than 15 years old! ...
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Exhibition
Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel
Corsets
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Selected pieces from the belle époque and beyond
Numerous myths surround the corset. For more than four centuries, it was considered a means of representing feminine beauty and seduction. Never before has a garment aroused so much longing, rumor and fantasy, ...
Numerous myths surround the corset. For more than four centuries, it was considered a means of representing feminine beauty and seduction. Never before has a garment aroused so much longing, rumor and fantasy, ...
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Exhibition
Antikenmuseum Basel, Skulpturhalle
Dichter - Denker - Demagogen
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Die Skulpturhalle Basel besitzt mehr als 100 Abgüsse von griechischen Bildnissen. In der neuen Dauerausstellung präsentiert sie diese erstmals in einer zugänglichen und aufschlussreichen Neupräsentation.
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
How did the dinosaurs live? What did they eat? How quickly did they grow? Why did they get so big? And what was their social behaviour like? Our permanent exhibition offers plenty of answers to these and other questions. We'll show you that, actually, dinosaurs were far from ...
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Exhibition
Dreiländermuseum
Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Kennen Sie die RegioTriRhena, die Drei-Länder-Region am Rhein? Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweiz: Drei Länder und doch eine Region – das ist das Ergebnis einer einzigartigen Geschichte.
Welche Gemeinsamkeiten verbinden die drei Länder? Wie kam es zur Dreiteilung des ...
Welche Gemeinsamkeiten verbinden die drei Länder? Wie kam es zur Dreiteilung des ...
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Workshop
Family
S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum
Familiensonntag im S AM
11.00 AM - 12.30 PM
Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung ‹Swim City› für die Eltern und Workshop für die Kinder (5-11 Jahre).
Nach einer gemeinsamen Einführung lassen sich die Erwachsenen in Ruhe durch die Ausstellung führen und die Kinder können sich in einem Workshop kreativ mit dem ...
Nach einer gemeinsamen Einführung lassen sich die Erwachsenen in Ruhe durch die Ausstellung führen und die Kinder können sich in einem Workshop kreativ mit dem ...
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Exhibition
Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel
Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The respect shown to every exhibit on display is evident both within the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel (Toy Worlds Museum Basle) and in its show windows in the prominent pedestrian precinct in the centre of Basel. Adequate space has been given to the displays throughout the ...
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Fire & Water – From the Mountain Summits to the Oceanic Abyss
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Earth is an exceptionally dynamic planet. The characteristics of its surface originate deep inside the planet. This is the only way to explain the continents that have been moving for millions of years, the rising mountain peaks, the formation and subduction of oceanic ...
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Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Basel
From Beckmann to Nolde. Aus dem Kupferstichkabinett
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Around 1905, a number of young and as yet obscure artists, among them Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Emil Nolde, set out to write the most important chapter in the history of printmaking in the twentieth century. Flouting traditional ...
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Guided Tour
Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Führung
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
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Museum.BL
Führung: Badenixen und Strandburschen. Hanro-Bademode der 1930er-Jahre
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
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Exhibition
Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli
Funeral Artefacts
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
Ash urns and documents on the history of cremation, hearses, coffins, cemetery regulations, grave crosses, glass bead wreaths and memento mori.
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Exhibition
Vitra Design Museum
Gallery: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Better Nature
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
British designer and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores our relationship with nature and technology through what we design. For the past decade, she has researched possibilities for the design of living matter, also referred to as «synthetic biology». For projects like ...
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Exhibition
Kunsthaus Baselland
Gina Folly
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Artist Gina Folly (b.1983, Zurich), who lives in Basel and Paris, has for several years engaged in detail with the medium of photography, to which she adds complementary forms and presentation possibilities. Plants, animals or everyday things and situations, through which she ...
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Guided Tour
Fondation Beyeler
Guided Tour
12.00 PM - 1.00 PM
The one-hour-long guided tours provide an insight into the current exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. They are conducted daily by our experienced and knowledgeable art mediators.
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Guided tour »Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People« (in German)
11.30 AM - 12.30 PM
The architect and urban planner Balkrishna Doshi (*1927 in Pune, India) is recognized as the most significant pioneer of modern architecture in India. In over 60 years of practice, Doshi has realized nearly 100 projects and in 2018 was recognized for his achievements with the ...
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Guided Tour
HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Guided tour on Sundays
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM
Every Sunday we offer a free guided tour through the current exhibition.
The guided tours are in German, however, please contact us if you are English speaking and we might be able to organise a tour in both languages.
The tour starts at 3pm, registration is ...
The guided tours are in German, however, please contact us if you are English speaking and we might be able to organise a tour in both languages.
The tour starts at 3pm, registration is ...
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Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Basel
Helmut Federle. 19 E. 21st St., Six Large Paintings
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Since then, numerous museums and private collections, including the Tate Modern, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, have acquired works by Federle; in 1997, he represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale. Yet discussions of his art have tended to eschew the issues at ...
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Highlights from the Collection (DE)
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM
The guided tour focusses on the highlights from the Vitra Design Museum collection, including rare and singular pieces from designers such as Gerrit Rietveld, Alvar Aalto, Charles & Ray Eames or Ettore Sottsass, but also less well-known or anonymous designs, rarities, ...
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Guided Tour
Vitra Design Museum
Highlights from the Collection (EN)
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
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Exhibition
Museum Kleines Klingental
Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The permanent exposition in the historical rooms of the former Klingental Dominican convent features original medieval sculptures from Basel Cathedral, a 17th-century model of the city, and the history of the convent itself.
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Exhibition
Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Historical Preparations
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
In addition to contemporary exhibits, the Museum possesses numerous, valuable, historical preparations which have been restored using the latest techniques. They are now presented in new displays. Of special historical interest, is the skeleton prepared in 1543 by Andreas ...
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Exhibition
Schweizerisches Feuerwehrmuseum Basel
History of Fire-fighting
2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Fire-fighting equipment, ranging from medieval hand-operated spraying devices to modern oxygen inhalers.
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Exhibition
Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel
History of Pharmacy
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The Museum of Pharmacy exhibits one of the world's largest collections dedicated to the history of pharmacy. Alchemistic laboratories, pharmacies, scientific instruments, ceramics, and many other highlights are shown in a medieval house.
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Exhibition
Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz
Isrealities - Sieben fotografische Reisen
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
ISREALITES zeigt sieben fotografische Reisen. Philippe Halsman, David Seymour, genannt CHIM, Erich Hartmann, Micha Bar-Am, Patrick Zachmann, Thomas Dworzak und Oded Balilty führen uns durch das Britische Mandatsgebiet Palästina, durch den sich gründenden jüdischen Staat bis ...
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Special
Children
Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Kindermatinee mit StimmeKontraBass mit Franziska von Arb und David Schönhaus
11.15 AM - 12.15 PM
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Exhibition
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt «Blind Date»
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Basel-Stadt art credit (Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt) presents works by artists who were awarded the individual artist’s direct grant by the commission of Basel-Stadt art credit in 2018.
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Exhibition
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Leaps in Time
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
From Neanderthals to a pharmaceutical hub: Visitors embark on a tour of 100,000 years of Basel history with a selection of 50 objects and 100 milestones, six film spots on recent history, and an interactive installation of facts and images telling of the city’s development up ...
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Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Basel
Leiko Ikemura. Toward New Seas
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura first caused a stir in Switzerland in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational compositions that associated her with the Neue Wilde. She later rose to international renown with girlish figures unmoored from reality and cosmic ...
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Exhibition
Vitra Design Museum
Living in a Box: Design in Comic and Cartoon
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Since their inception in the early 20th century, comics and cartoons have become a global phenomenon. The Vitra Design Museum exhibition »Living in a Box« demonstrates the close relationship of comics and cartoons to design.
Classic furnishings and interiors depicted ...
Classic furnishings and interiors depicted ...
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Exhibition
Museum Tinguely
Lois Weinberger - Debris Field
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Lois Weinberger’s artistic research pioneered the linking of art, society, and nature. For Documenta X in 1997, he planted a disused railway track with neophytes as a metaphor for processes of migration in our time.
Debris Field is a poeticoarchaeological research ...
Debris Field is a poeticoarchaeological research ...
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Once a caterpillar has battled its way out of its egg, it eats as much as it can. It changes its appearance, grows and metamorphoses in order to ultimately emerge from its chrysalis as a beautiful butterfly and fly through the air. We illustrate this remarkable stage of ...
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Exhibition
Fondation Beyeler
Louise Bourgeois: Insomnia Drawings – Works from the Daros Collection
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
«Les paysages de nuit ont envahi les jours (The landscapes of night have conquered the day)» All her life, French-American artist Louise Bourgeois suffered regular bouts of insomnia. Yet the long hours of the night proved immensely productive, turning her sleeplessness into ...
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Mammoth & Sabre-Toothed Tiger – In a Land before our Time
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Saber-toothed cats, Megaloceros (giant elk), dwarf elephants and humans – the evolution of mammals is spectacular. We showcase mammals and their ancestors using selected rare specimens. The climax of the exhibition is our famous mammoth.
Mammals today account for ...
Mammals today account for ...
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Exhibition
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Medieval Worlds of Faith
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Showcased here will be medieval works of art from churches in Switzerland and on the Upper Rhine. The impressive sculptures attesting to the veneration of saints are a reminder of how society was pervaded by the Christian faith and the church and of the influence they have ...
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Exhibition
Museum Tinguely
Mengele-Dance of Death
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
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Exhibition
Vitra Design Museum
Museum: Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Indian architect, urban planner, and teacher Balkrishna V. Doshi (born 1927 in Pune, India) ranks among the most influential pioneers of modern Indian architecture. In 2018 he won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. Since the 1950s he has created more than 100 ...
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Exhibition
Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
The brain processes sensory impressions and information. Did you know that exercise and sport have a positive effect on the brain?
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Nature's Showcase – Birds, Mammals & Minerals in Switzerland
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The exhibition shines the spotlight on indigenous birds, mammals and minerals. The exterior of birds and mammals reveals a lot about how they move, hunt and eat. Two habitats, the city and the mountains, show examples of how animals are able to adapt to a constantly changing ...
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Invertebrates do not have a bony skeleton. Their striking appearance is often shaped by an exoskeleton as is the case with insects, or a shell system as found in mussels and snails. However they can also be soft and mobile, like worms. The exhibition offers an overview of the ...
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Exhibition
Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Original Dissections
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.
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Exhibition
Museum Tinguely
Permanent collections Jean Tinguely
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Museum's permanent collections present a selection of the Jean Tinguely's machine-sculptures, reliefs and drawings from all the periods of his career. Further, a great number of drawings and letter-drawings, documents, exhibition posters, catalogues and documentation as ...
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Exhibition
Antikenmuseum Basel, Skulpturhalle
Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
This is one of the largest collections of plaster casts of ancient sculptures. Its complete reconstruction of the sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens is the only one of its kind.
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Exhibition
Fondation Beyeler
Presentation of the Beyeler Collection «Lost in Time Like Tears in Rain», curated by Sam Keller
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The new presentation of works from the collection at the Fondation Beyeler goes in search of lost time. Conceived as an invitation to wander through the gardens of modern art history, it ends with contemporary art, where it ties in with the museum’s summer show devoted to ...
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Exhibition
Museum.BL
Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Collecting, a passion: But do we have to keep all these things and what significance do they have for us and our future? Private collectors present their treasures and museum curators give special insights into the museum's collections.
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Exhibition
Museum.BL
Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Collecting, a passion: But do we have to keep all these things and what significance do they have for us and our future? Private collectors present their treasures and museum curators give special insights into the museum's collections.
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Exhibition
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Since its origins in the 18th century, the Natural History Museum Basel has repeatedly gathered examples on its expeditions of animal species that have since disappeared from the natural world. Thanks to the correct storage of the collection objects in our «Archives of Life», ...
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Exhibition
Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Rebbau
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Im einstigen Weinkeller des Basler Bürgermeisters Wettstein wird die Geschichte des Rebbaus in Riehen und der Region eindrücklich dargestellt.
Der Raum, in dessen Zentrum eine alte Trotte steht, beeindruckt durch seine Grösse von 15 Metern Länge und 5 Metern Höhe. ...
Der Raum, in dessen Zentrum eine alte Trotte steht, beeindruckt durch seine Grösse von 15 Metern Länge und 5 Metern Höhe. ...
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Exhibition
Museum Tinguely
Rebecca Horn. Body Fantasies
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
An exhibition project in dialogue with Centre Pompidou-Metz
In a two-part joint project, Museum Tinguely and Centre Pompidou-Metz present the artist Rebecca Horn (born 1944), one of the most respected and distinctive artists of her generation. Her work is marked by ...
In a two-part joint project, Museum Tinguely and Centre Pompidou-Metz present the artist Rebecca Horn (born 1944), one of the most respected and distinctive artists of her generation. Her work is marked by ...
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Special
Augusta Raurica
Römerfest Augusta Raurica
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
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Exhibition
Antikenmuseum Basel, Skulpturhalle
Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Während sich die griechischen Bildnisse gleichmässig auf die drei Kategorien ‹Dichter›, ‹Denker› und ‹Politiker› verteilen, entfällt der weitaus grösste Teil der hinterlassenen Porträts römischer Zeit auf Bildnisse von Angehörigen der Kaiserhäuser bzw. auf solche von ...
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Exhibition
Dreiländermuseum
Rötteln castle. Dominion between Basel and France
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Rötteln is one of the largest medieval castle ruins on the Upper Rhine. The exhibition sheds light on the castle's eventful history and shows how its dominion - the Markgräflerland - developed between Basel and France. The family exhibition also gives a vivid picture of ...
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Exhibition
Fondation Beyeler
Rudolf Stingel
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Fondation Beyeler will devote its summer exhibition 2019 to contemporary painter Rudolf Stingel (born in 1956 in Merano, Italy, he lives and works in New York and Merano).
From his very beginnings in the late 1980s, Rudolf Stingel has approached painting in a ...
From his very beginnings in the late 1980s, Rudolf Stingel has approached painting in a ...
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Exhibition
Kunstmuseum Basel
Rundum Leonardo. Eine Spurensuche
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Vor 500 Jahren starb Leonardo da Vinci. Warum das Kunstmuseum Basel kein Gemälde des Universalgenies der italienischen Renaissance besitzt – auch wenn man das vor 100 Jahren noch ganz anders gesehen hat – und welche Spuren seine Kunst dennoch in der Altmeister-Sammlung ...
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Guided Tour
Family
Kunstmuseum Basel
Schatten. Tanzen. Licht.
10.30 AM - 12.00 PM
Eine performative Familienführung durch Teile der Ausstellung
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Exhibition
Vitra Design Museum
Schaudepot: The Vitra Design Museum Collection - 1800 to the Present
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Schaudepot was initiated with the goal of making the constantly growing collection of the Vitra Design Museum more accessible to the public. The cornerstone for the collection was laid by the museum's founder Rolf Fehlbaum. In the 1980s he assembled a collection of ...
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Exhibition
Museum.BL
Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The peak of the silk industry in the 19th century is followed by a rapid decline: the market for luxury goods collapses during the First and Second World Wars and silk ribbons are no longer fashionable. The ribbon manufacturers will find different solutions or go bankrupt. ...
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Exhibition
Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum
Sound Pictures
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
They sang Parisian chansons, played Polish lute music or collected musical instruments: for Basel’s Renaissance burghers, polymaths like Bonifacius and Basilius Amerbach, Felix Platter and Ludwig Iselin, music was essential to the cultural life of the city. This is the story ...
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Guided Tour
Fondation Beyeler
Spaziergang «24 Stops» Rehberger-Weg
2.00 PM - 4.00 PM
Die geführten Spaziergänge in schöner Landschaft führen Sie zu den Wegmarken des Projekts «24 Stops» am Rehberger-Weg.
Erfahren Sie Hintergründe zu «24 Stops», dem Künstler Tobias Rehberger, den einzelnen Objekten und dem landschaftlichen Kontext.
Tickets im ...
Erfahren Sie Hintergründe zu «24 Stops», dem Künstler Tobias Rehberger, den einzelnen Objekten und dem landschaftlichen Kontext.
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Exhibition
Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Spielzeugmuseum
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Das Spielzeugmuseum Riehen gliedert sich in drei grosse Kapitel: «Technik im Kinderzimmer», «Spielzeug aus Holz» und «Die Welt der Puppen». Dabei werden viele Fragen rund um Geschichte und Einsatz von Spielzeugen beantwortet: Wie und wo entsteht Spielzeug? Was lieben Jungs ...
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Museum der Kulturen Basel
StrawGold – Cultural Transformations Rendered Visible
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Why should someone make a Bavarian dirndl from African cloths? Moreover, in what way are these dresses still African? The exhibition «StrawGold» sheds light on entangled stories of this kind: everyday items, technologies, materials, political and religious concepts as well as ...
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S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum
Swim City
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The exhibition «Swim City» will be the first to draw attention to one particular contemporary phenomenon in the urban space: river swimming as a mass movement – a 21st-century Swiss invention. For decades, cities like Basel, Bern, Zurich and Geneva have been gradually making ...
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Verkehrsdrehscheibe Schweiz und unser Weg zum Meer
Swiss Gate to the Ocean
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The permanent exhibition at the shipping museum is focusing on current means of transport, all rolled into one: water, rail, road and air, with the focus on shipping.
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Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum
Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Musical instruments from five centuries are shown in both their musical and social contexts and grouped according to musical genres or to occasions on which specific instruments were played. Visitors can also hear how the instruments sound and are given additional information ...
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Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The perforated disc began its brief career in mechanical music in the 1880s in Leipzig, This new simplified sound production system was cheaper to produce and allowed for a wider, and more topical music repertoire. Also Swiss companies produced disc music boxes for the world market.
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Guided Tour
Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers
12.20 PM - 1.20 PM
Guided tour
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Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Guided tour
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Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers
4.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Guided tour
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Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
The Basel Quran
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The manuscript penned in Egypt or Syria in 1242 was brought to the Council of Basel from Constantinople in 1437. It later served the Zurich theologian Theodor Bibliander (1509–1564) as a source text for his Latin translation of the Quran, which was printed in Basel by Hans ...
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Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig
The Greeks and their World. Identity and Ideal
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
In its permanent exhibition, The Greeks and their World. Identity and Ideal, the Antikenmuseum Basel presents some of the vases from its superb collection from a topical and surprising angle. Ancient masterpieces become vivid proof of an astonishingly modern past.
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Basler Papiermühle
The hands-on museum where you can get in touch with paper
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Seit 30 Jahren befindet sich die Basler Papiermühle im idyllischen Mühlenquartier St. Alban; in einem Haus, in dem über 500 Jahre lang Papier produziert wurde. Nach einer umfassenden baulichen Sanierung und Neukonzeption der Dauerausstellung wird das selber Hand anlegen und ...
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Augusta Raurica
The largest bronze model of a Roman city. Hands on Augusta Raurica!
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
In the wide space between the museum and the theatre of Augusta Raurica is a further attraction presented: the largest bronze model of a Roman city. With a dimension of 4.8 x 2.8 meters, it gives an impressive picture of the grandeur of the former metropolis.
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Museum Tinguely
The Luminator at the Euroairport
11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Jean Tinguely’s Luminator was designed in 1991 for the Kulturgüterzug Kulturgüterzug (“train of cultural goods”), an exhibition organized by Klaus Littmann at Messe Basel in June of that year. For the exhibition artists such as Daniel Spoerri, Bernhard Luginbühl and Eva ...
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Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
The magnificent Kirschgarten House
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The magnificent Kirschgarten House - built between 1775 and 1780 as the home and office of a Basle silk ribbon manufacturer - is one of Switzerland's principal museums of domestic life. Laid out on two floors, period rooms depict life during the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
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Mühlemuseum
The Millers' Daily Work
8.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The former watermill at the Brüglingerhof offers an exhibition on the history of the watermill and millers' daily work from the Bronze Age up to the 21st century.
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Museum.BL
The wilder side of the canton of Basel-Landschaft. On the trail of animals and plants
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The changeable permanent exhibition at the Museum.BL deals with life in its full splendour and takes visitors on a journey of discovery through the natural riches of the canton of Basel-Landschaft: A wealth of surprising natural paradises turns Basel into an ecologically very ...
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Museum der Kulturen Basel
Thirst for Knowledge meets Collecting Mania
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Museums face challenging times: what seemed a must for an ethnographic museum in the past – such as a collection of skulls – is now a sensitive issue. In collecting, objects were removed from their original contexts, items made of rare and precious materials such as ivory or ...
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Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz
Up Close and Personal / Judaism
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Since it was founded in 1966, Basel's Jewish Museum has assembled a cultural-historical collection unique in Europe. In 2016 it celebrates its 50th anniversary with a display of noteworthy artifacts, such as textiles, ceremonial objects, everyday items, and a Torah arc from ...
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Opening
Kunsthaus Baselland
Vernissage: I-HOOD
2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
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Guided Tour
Fondation Beyeler
Visite guidée en Français
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM
Visite guidée dans l'exposition temporaire.
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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The permanent Whale & Fish exhibition offers a magical view not only over the rooftops of Basel, but also most importantly of the wonderfully presented skeleton of a minke whale. It lay for forty years in the collection room before finding its way into the exhibition. Another ...
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Cartoonmuseum Basel
Wiktoria Lomasko
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Born in 1978 in Serpukhov, south of Moscow, Victoria Lomasko studied graphics and letterpress printing at the State University of Printing Arts in Moscow before making her way into comics reportage. Lomasko was inspired by documentary drawings from during the Siege of ...
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Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Wild Boar and Lettuce
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Among the great treasures of porcelain art are the animal-shaped tureens and deceptively real-looking plates of olives or lettuce made by the Strasbourg manufactories. This new show will present these exquisite pieces in the larger context of the dining culture of that era.
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Guided Tour
Kunstmuseum Basel
William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM
Visite Guidée en français
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Kunstmuseum Basel
William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
William Kentridge (b. 1955) has won wide international acclaim as a leading contemporary artist working today. In more than three decades, the South African visual artist, filmmaker, and stage director has built a sizable oeuvre that spans a broad range of media including ...
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Workshop
Cartoonmuseum Basel
Zeichnen «in situ»
2.00 PM - 4.00 PM
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