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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Animalistic! – No Culture Without Animals

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

For a long time, the relationship between humans and animals was unequal, with humans representing the far superior beings. This view has changed. The exhibition – part of a cooperation between four Basel museums – looks at various aspects of the relationship between humans ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

animalistic! – The Sound of Animals

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Animals and music delight children and adults alike. But why does the nightingale sing, but the wolf howls? And how do the cow get on the drum and the elephant into the piano? You can find out in the exhibition.

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (DE)

11.00 AM - 1.00 PM

This comprehensive tour of the Vitra Campus provides an overview of the history of the Vitra company and the evolution of the company premises in Weil, placing special emphasis on the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando and the ...

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (EN)

12.00 PM - 2.00 PM

This comprehensive tour of the Vitra Campus provides an overview of the history of the Vitra company and the evolution of the company premises in Weil, placing special emphasis on the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando and the ...

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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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Special

Augusta Raurica

Auf Postenjagd durch die Römerstadt

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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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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Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Ausstellungsrundgang «Wayne Thiebaud»

5.30 PM - 6.30 PM

Während dem Ausstellungsrundgang erhalten Sie einen vertieften Einblick in die aktuelle Ausstellung der Fondation Beyeler.

Preis: Eintritt + CHF 7.–

Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt.
Tickets können im Voraus online oder gleichentags an der ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Ave Caesar! Romans, Gauls and Germanic tribes on the Banks of the Rhine

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The exhibition is devoted to the importance of the River Rhine for the early history of our region and for the whole of Europe, and highlights the epoch-making changes brought about by Caesar's campaigns. The main subject are the political, cultural and economic relationships ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

10.00 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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Guided Tour

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Cancelled until further notice: Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)

1.40 PM - 2.00 PM, 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 ...

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Guided Tour

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Cancelled until further notice: Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers

12.20 PM - 1.20 PM, 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM, 4.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Guided tour

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Exhibition Children

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

celestial, terrestrial, animalic - Christmas tree animals

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

More than 600 animals crawl, fly, swim and hop through this year’s Christmas exhibition at the Spielzeug Welten Museum – a testament to the variety of creatures that enlivened Christmas trees as early as 100 years ago.
Filou the Christmas dog guides our youngest visitors ...

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

CHAI - חי. When Gravestones Speak of Life

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Four sculptures by the artist Fabio Luks engage in a conversation with the medieval gravestones installed in the Museum's courtyard. CHAI, «alive» in Hebrew, is central to Judaism, which attaches the highest importance to life.

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Closed until further notice: 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

Vitra Design Museum

Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The annual presentation at the Vitra Schaudepot reveals the collection of the Vitra Design Museum in a fresh light every year. The new focus topic, which will be on display from May 2022 to May 2023, is wholly devoted to colour. Following an invitation from the Vitra Design ...

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Exhibition

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Cosey

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

With his realistic, wonderfully confident line work in the internationally renowned comic series Jonathan, comics artist Cosey from Western Switzerland takes us on journeys – through the breathtaking expanses of Asian, North American and European landscapes, and into his ...

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Exhibition

Hafenmuseum

Der Rhein und seine Weidlinge

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Im Mittelalter war der Weidling ein bedeutendes Transport- und Reisemittel für die Basler Wirtschaft. Es wurden Waren, Mensch und Vieh transportiert und Pilgerfahrten gemacht. Die bis ins 20. Jahrhundert ausschliesslich aus Holz gebauten Flachboote waren bestens geeignet, um ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

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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Special

Museum Tinguely

Digital: TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Wir laden Sie ein, TINGUELY@HOME zu entdecken, denn wir arbeiten nicht erst seit heute an hochwertigen digitalen Angeboten, die das Museumserlebnis erweitern und ergänzen.

Alle unsere TINGUELY@HOME Angebote finden Sie kompakt auf unserer Website ...

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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

Fondation Beyeler

Doris Salcedo: Palimpsest

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

The Fondation Beyeler will be showing the expansive installation "Palimpsest" by the internationally renowned Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Born in Bogotá in 1958, Salcedo explores the effects of violence and exclusion in her native Colombia as well as in other regions of ...

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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 ...

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Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Egypt. 3,000 years of culture on the Nile

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Antikenmuseum Basel has the richest and most diverse collection of Egyptian art in Switzerland. The newly designed show uses the latest exhibition technology to take visitors into the mysterious land of the pharaohs in six themed areas. A children’s adventure trail ...

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Guided Tour

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Ein Basler Bürgerhaus erzählt – Geschichten vom Leben und Geniessen um 1800

12.30 PM - 1.15 PM

Die Basler «Bändelherren» des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts pflegten einen exklusiven Lebensstil. Im Haus zum Kirschgarten kann man diesen bewundern. Wie liess es sich hier leben, arbeiten und geniessen? Und welche gesammelten Schätze hält das klassizistische Stadtpalais heute ...

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Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Einführung für Lehrpersonen "Wayne Thiebaud"2024

6.00 PM - 7.30 PM

Einführung zur Ausstellung von "Wayne Thiebaud", explizit nur für Lehrpersonen, die einen Ausstellungsbesuch mit ihrer Schulklasse planen.
Preis: CHF 10.00 (inkl. Eintritt)
Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt. Tickets können online im Vorverkauf oder gleichentags an der ...

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Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Einführung für Lehrpersonen "Wayne Thiebaud"2025

6.00 PM - 7.30 PM

Einführung zur Ausstellung von "Wayne Thiebaud", explizit nur für Lehrpersonen, die einen Ausstellungsbesuch mit ihrer Schulklasse planen.
Preis: CHF 10.00 (inkl. Eintritt)
Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt. Tickets können online im Vorverkauf oder gleichentags an der ...

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Digital Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das Museum der Kulturen Basel ist virtuell immer offen. Von unserer Website aus gelangen Sie jederzeit ins Museum. Sie nehmen an Führungen teil, begegnen Buddha zuhause auf dem Sofa, lernen die Lieblingsobjekte der Mitarbeitenden kennen und können Bastelanleitungen für schöne ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Encountering Böcklin

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

Born in Basel, the artist Arnold Böcklin is one of the most important representatives of Symbolism and is one of the patron saints of the Kunstmuseum. The exhibition presents over 90 paintings and sculptural works by Böcklin. The Kunstmuseum Basel thus houses the most ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

From meditation retreats to living rooms to garden ponds – Buddhas are everywhere! What do we find so fascinating about this figure? What forms do Buddhist teachings and practices embrace? The exhibition follows up these and other questions and sheds light on Buddhism in all ...

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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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Special Barrier-free

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Führung für hörbehinderte Menschen Wildlife Photographer of the Year

10.30 AM - 12.00 PM

Die Sonderausstellung Wildlife Photographer of the Year zeigt atemberaubende Naturfotografien, die Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt begeistern. Die imposante Ausstellung des Natural History Museums London mit den 100 preisgekrönten Bildern des Jahres 2022 ist exklusiv ...

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Exhibition

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

Closed

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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Fun Feminism

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

Werke von Künstlerinnen sind in der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Basel bis heute untervertreten. Die Institution befindet sich damit in bester Gesellschaft. Denn nach wie vor müssen Frauen ihre Bedeutung als Protagonistinnen der (westlichen) Kunstgeschichte behaupten. Seit einem ...

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: The ECAL Manual of Style

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

»How to best teach design today?« – The ECAL /University of Art and Design Lausanne put this question to a number of renowned designers and critics. Their answers reveal the unique approach to teaching pursued at one of Switzerland’s leading design schools, where individual ...

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Exhibition Barrier-free

Vitra Design Museum

Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Science fiction becomes reality: robotics has taken on a growing role in our lives for a number of years now. Examples range from transport drones and disability robots to internet bots. First presented in 2017, »Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine« has been the ...

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Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

2.00 PM - 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

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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Exhibition

Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

Closed

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 Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel 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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Inventarium – Eine Dokumentation der Generalinventur im Historischen Museum Basel

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das «Inventarium» ist eine kleine Ausstellung über das Sammeln und Ordnen von Dingen und Wissen im Museum. Hier erfahren Besucherinnen und Besucher was eine Generalinventur ist und warum das Historische Museum eine solche braucht.

Was machen die «Inventis» in den ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Joseph Beuys. Collection Presentation

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

In memory of Hans U. Bodenmann (1926-2016), early collector and long-time friend of Joseph Beuys, Dr. h.c. Maja Oeri and her sons Hans Emanuel and Melchior Oeri donated eleven display cases of Joseph Beuys to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.

These are on display ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili: "Verkleidung"

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (*1979) presents an ensemble of large-scale, quasi-abstract, almost diaphanous photographic images specifically developed for the outdoor context of the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. The images are, as with so much of the Georgian-born artist’s ...

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Special Children

Museum Tinguely

Kinderclub

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Each week we explore a new exhibit in the museum. We then proceed to build, design and experiment in the studio, either alone or in groups.

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

La roue = c'est tout. Neue Sammlungspräsentation

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Laut Tinguely ‘leben wir in einer Räderzivilisation’. So ist das Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine und die daraus resultierenden Abhängigkeiten, die Tinguely lustvoll dekonstruierte, auch heute noch prägend für unser Leben. Erstmals seit der Gründung des Museums wird die ...

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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

Museum Tinguely

«le Définitif - c'est le Provisoire». New presentation of Museum Tinguely’s collection

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

DIY art, limelight, broken glass – in Jean Tinguely’s multi-facetted oeuvre one encounters everything from machine performances to multisensory spectacles to critiques of consumer culture. Works and documents show his early successes, theatre projects and correspondence. ...

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Exhibition

Basler Papiermühle

Letters Around the World - Postal Artist Books

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Die Basler Papiermühle präsentiert eine Wanderausstellung von 72 Künstler*innen aus 36 Ländern mit Leporellos und Künstlerbüchern, die 2020/2021 im Stillstand der Pandemie entstanden sind. Jedes Werk ist das Ergebnis eines Erfahrungsaustauschs zwischen zwei Kunstschaffenden ...

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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

Kunsthalle Basel

LuYang: "LuYang Vibratory Field"

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

LuYang takes the human as the center point of an investigation that deploys the cultures of anime, Buddhism, digital technology, gaming, Indonesian dance rituals, neuroscience, and sci-fi to mine the mess (and magic) of the human condition. The resulting artworks are ...

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Exhibition

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

‘Make Do With Now’ sheds light on an emerging generation of architects and urban practitioners in Japan. Largely entering professional practicefollowing the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear di-saster, this generation is developing a range of critical, ...

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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 ...

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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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Workshop Children

Museum.BL

Mein Museum: Die Mäusezüchterin ist da

2.00 PM - 4.30 PM

Kennst du sie, die Eurasischen Zwergmäuse in der Ausstellung Wildes Baselbiet? Sie verstecken sich zwischen Grashalmen und in ihren Kugelnestern. Mit der Mäusezüchterin Andrea Müller erlebst du die winzigen Kletterakrobaten hautnah.

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The exhibition playfully reveals the manifold practices people rely on to recall specific moments in life, from birth to death, but also to forget about them. Significant events in society are passed on by word of mouth, carved in stone, or, as the case may be, never disclosed.

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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Guided Tour

Kunstmuseum Basel

Mittwochmatinée. Der Fall Curt Glaser

10.15 AM - 12.00 PM

Auf einem Rundgang durch die Ausstellung tauchen wir in die Geschichte des Sammlers Curt Glaser ein und lernen seine Sammlung kennen. Wir sprechen darüber was es bedeutet als Kunstmuseum Basel den Ankauf von 1933 aufzuarbeiten und produktiv zu machen. Mit der Kuratorin Judith Rauser

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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

2.00 PM - 5.00 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

Kunsthaus Baselland

Pia Fries

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Since the 1990s, Pia Fries has undisputedly been one of the most important international figures in the field of painting. Born in 1955 in Beromünster, Switzerland, she relocated to Germany in the 1980s to study at the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Gerhard ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

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

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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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Production Tours (DE)

12.30 PM - 1.30 PM

Take a look behind the scenes of the production at the Vitra Campus. Experience different steps of the manufacturing process of the Aluminium Chair on a guided tour in the production hall of Frank Gehry. The chair developed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1958 is considered one ...

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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 Children

MUKS − Museum Kultur & Spiel Riehen

Räuber

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Jede kennt sie – so ziemlich jeder mag sie.

Räuberinnen und Räuber sind bereits in Kindergeschichten allgegenwärtig und beliebt. Was fasziniert uns an diesen Figuren, die sich verhalten, als ob es für sie keine Regeln gibt und die trotzdem (oder gerade deswegen) ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

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

Augusta Raurica

Ruinengeschichten digital: Augmented-Reality-Hörspiel in den Gewerbehäusern

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Mit der Augmented-Reality-App können Sie die ausserordentlich gut erhaltenen Gewerbehäuser an der römischen Fernstrasse auf neue Art erkunden: Mit einem AR-Hörspiel und einem interaktiven Rundgang. Tauchen Sie ein in das Alltagsleben vor 1700 Jahren und erleben Sie die ...

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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

Kunsthaus Baselland

Simone Holliger. venir en main

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

For several years now, award-winning, internationally active artist Simone Holliger has worked with carefully chosen materials. Through an experimental, process based approach, she creates sculptures that are typically several meters in height and width. They grow in and ...

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Exhibition

Hafenmuseum

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

The collector Curt Glaser. From Champion of Modernism to Refugee

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

The exhibition links Curt Glaser's life with impressive works that are being shown together again for the first time. In this way, it brings to life the cosmos of a fascinating collection and illuminates a hitherto unnoticed chapter of modernism in Berlin during the Weimar ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Dreiländermuseum

The Rhine

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The overview exhibition of the large cross-border cultural project of the network museums with 38 exhibitions.

The Upper Rhine and its plain shape the landscape between the Black Forest, the Vosges and the Swiss Jura. The character of the river has changed ...

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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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Digital Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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Kunstmuseum Basel

Torn Modernism. Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate Art"

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

In the summer of 1939—just before the outbreak of World War II—the Kunstmuseum Basel purchased 21 works by Modern masters. Nazis, vilifying these works as “degenerate,” had forced their removal from German museums. The exhibition sheds light on a particular moment in the ...

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Museum Kleines Klingental

Trees in Basel. The green in urban change

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Our life is not possible without trees. The 1000-year history of the Basel city tree comes to life in the exhibition. In all phases of the city's development, one can see the transformation from the myth of the tree to its importance for urban beautification to its elementary ...

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Dreiländermuseum

Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine (TMO) - Three countries. One living space. Boundless diversity.

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The German-French-Swiss Upper Rhine region is a common living space where different cultures and traditions are no barrier, but form a wealth in the heart of Europe. The TMO is unique as a cooperation platform for the border region. Here, business, science, politics and civil ...

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Augusta Raurica

Under the magnifying glass. Following the traces of a Roman life story

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

How is a find archaeologically researched? We let experts speak! In 2016, a sensational Roman lead coffin was discovered, recovered and meticulously investigated in Augst. The results show exciting insights into a human life from 1700 years ago.

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Exhibition Barrier-free

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

untereinander werden

3.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Imagine a world where chairs, shoes and jackets, begin to transform like living beings, shedding their skin, growing, multiplying and connecting. A world where stories are worn as bags, corsets go through metamorphoses, free themselves and become protective shells and armor. ...

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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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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang der Barfüsserkirche in 3D

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Virtueller Rundgang des Musikmuseums in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Visita publica en espanol "Wayne Thiebaud"

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Nuestros experimentados mediadores de arte le proporcionarán una hora de información detallada sobre la exposición actual.

Preis: Eintritt + CHF 7.–

Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt.
Tickets können im Voraus online oder gleichentags an der Museumskasse ...

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Fondation Beyeler

Wayne Thiebaud

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

The acclaimed American artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920–2021) originally started out as a graphic designer and briefly worked for Walt Disney Studios’ animation department. In his celebrated food still lifes, Thiebaud depicted the promise and profusion of the “American way of ...

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Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

Werbung Wirkung Pharma From historical collection to artistic examination

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The special exhibition “Werbung Wirkung Pharma” provides an insight onto our collection of pharmaceutical trade advertising from the years 1960 to 1980 and features pieces by Basel-based artist Raphael Widmer, whose work grapples with the topics explored in the exhibition.

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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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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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Exhibition Barrier-free

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

EXZELLENTE NATURFOTOGRAFIE
Die Sonderausstellung Wildlife Photographer of the Year zeigt jedes Jahr neue, atemberaubende Naturfotografien, die Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt begeistern. Die imposante Ausstellung des Natural History Museums London mit den 100 ...

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