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Vitra Design Museum

Architecture tour (EN)

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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Vitra Design Museum

Architecture tour (EN)

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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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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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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Augusta Raurica

Das Namenlose Gespenst: Ein Rätselrundgang voller Düfte und Gerüche für die ganze Familie

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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Antikenmuseum Basel, Skulpturhalle

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

12.00 PM - 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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Vitra Design Museum

Food Shaping Kyoto

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The exhibition »Food Shaping Kyoto« in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus presents how the urban form of Kyoto has been influenced by its unique culture and food circulation from its production to consumption. It documents the urban environment of one of Japan’s ...

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Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Lake Verea: Paparazza Moderna

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Mexican artists Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea portray forgotten or hidden homes designed by renowned modernist architects. They approach these buildings like paparazzi – unannounced and spontaneous – with the aim of capturing them in an unembellished, completely ...

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Fondation Beyeler

Guided Tour

3.00 PM - 4.00 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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Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

2.00 PM - 5.00 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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Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Isrealities - Sieben fotografische Reisen

1.00 PM - 4.00 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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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 ...

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Fondation Beyeler

Monday Tour

2.00 PM - 2.45 PM

Thematic Overview
Every second Monday we invite you to join in a discussion with our art mediators about selected works or a work series in the current exhibition. The Monday tour promises surprising insights and enables you to deepen your relationship to individual works ...

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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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Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

2.00 PM - 5.00 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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Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

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Antikenmuseum Basel, Skulpturhalle

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

12.00 PM - 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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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. ...

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Antikenmuseum Basel, Skulpturhalle

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

12.00 PM - 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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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 ...

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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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Spielzeugmuseum Riehen

Sind Cartoons Kunst? Jules Stauber und Co.

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Sammeln ist nicht nur Museumstätigkeit, sondern auch eine individuelle Leidenschaft. Zwei Riehener Privatsammler, Dieter Tschudin und Urs Zellmeyer, zeigen im Spielzeugmuseum Riehen in der Gastausstellung „Sind Cartoons Kunst? Jules Stauber und Co.“ Cartoons aus ihren ...

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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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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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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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Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

1.00 PM - 4.00 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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