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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

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A cow made of marble wears a red and golden harness Next to her stands a woman and kneels a man

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Animalistic! – No Culture Without Animals

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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.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

animalistic! – The Sound of Animals

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Ausstellungsansicht mit Videoinstallationen

«Universal Tongue» entstand aus Anouk Kruithofs Faszination für Online verbreitete Tanzvideos als Verkörperung von individuellem Ausdruck, kultureller Identität, Empowerment und Freude. Mit einer digital-archäologischen Recherche suchte sie 8‘800 Videos zusammen, aus denen ...

Museum Tinguely

Anouk Kruithof. Universal Tongue

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Guided tour of architectural icons by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA.

12 pm, Vitra Schaudepot

Information about opening hours, guided tours and other matters related to the progressive reopening of the Vitra Campus and ...

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (EN)

11.00 AM - 1.00 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 ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Arte popolare napoletana

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Augusta Raurica

Auf Postenjagd durch die Römerstadt

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 ...

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Woods near Oele Oil painting by Piet Mondrian

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 ...

Fondation Beyeler

Ausstellungsrundgang «Mondrian»

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Diesen Sommer steht im Museum Tinguely die Performance im Mittelpunkt. Dabei wird sich die Ausstellung auf die Schweizer Kunstlandschaft, ihre Geschichte und ihre Interpret:innen konzentrieren und zugleich ein aufregendes internationales Programm präsentieren. Vom ...

Museum Tinguely

BANG BANG - translokale Performance Geschichte:n

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Auf einer Bank sitzt ein violett bekleideter Harlekin eine Fasnachtsfigur Er hält eine Stablaterne in den Händen

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

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Berenice Olmedo (*1987) often focuses on the most rejected and vulnerable in society—whether stray dogs or physically impaired humans. Extending this concern, in one of her first European solo exhibitions, the Mexican artist conceives a new project that generates form from ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Berenice Olmedo: «Hic et Nunc»

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Brice Marden (*1938, Bronxville, NY), one of the most important painters of our time, established himself in the 1960s with monochrome paintings and emotionally charged drawings. The juxtaposition of drawing series and paintings in the exhibition highlights the processual ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Brice Marden. Inner Space

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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.

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

CHAI - חי. When Gravestones Speak of Life

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

We listen to songs from all over the world, discover how animals sing and experience how singing originates. We explore our own singing voice, and if you have the courage, you sing your song in the «Singbar».

Museum.BL

CLOSED: La, la, la. An exhibition to sing along with

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Historischer Bikini von Hanro in der Ausstellung Bewahre! Was Menschen sammeln

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.

Museum.BL

Closed until further notice: Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

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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 ...

Vitra Design Museum

Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Duftrundgang das namenlose Gespenst Düfte und Gerüche werden erraten Foto Susanne Schenker

Special

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Antike Plastiken in einer Gruppe vor einer Wand stehend

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.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

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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 ...

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

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Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Egypt. 3,000 years of culture on the Nile

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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 ...

Das Foto zeigt die Köpfe zweiter Theaterfiguren Die Figur links hat grosse rote Augen eine Knollennase und einen grossen Mund Die Figur rechts hat eine spitzige Nase ebenfalls rote Augen und ein Haarbüschel steht gerade auf dem Kopf

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

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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 ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Encountering Böcklin

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You see the face and upper body of a golden Buddha with turquoise jewellery

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

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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 ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Fire & Water – From the Mountain Summits to the Oceanic Abyss

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Ash urns and documents on the history of cremation, hearses, coffins, cemetery regulations, grave crosses, glass bead wreaths and memento mori.

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

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The stories subtly drawn in coloured pencil and pastel by Italian artist Gabriella Giandelli (b. 1963) interweave everyday life and reality with beauty, poetry and secrets. In tribute to this internationally renowned artist and illustrator, who lives and works in Milan, ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Gabriella Giandelli

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Ausstellungsvisual zu Happy Birthday Globi Globi ist zu sehen mit zwei Freunden

Exhibition Children

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Happy Birthday, Globi!

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Globi is celebrating his 90th birthday this year – and we’re invited to the party!

Globi is a real whizz-kid: daredevil, rascal and scallywag rolled into one. Children are welcome to join him on his forays into ever new worlds.

To celebrate Globi’s birthday, ...

From what point does the contemporary begin? Which documents say what? Where does my body belong? Will I come back? At the heart of the questions that shape Ruth Buchanan’s exhibition «Heute Nacht geträumt» at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart is the desire to reconsider the ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Heute Nacht geträumt. An exhibition by Ruth Buchanan

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Vitra Design Museum

Hinter den Kulissen (DE)

3.00 PM - 4.00 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.

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

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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 ...

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Fire-fighting equipment, ranging from medieval hand-operated spraying devices to modern oxygen inhalers.

Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

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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.

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

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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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Inventarium – Eine Dokumentation der Generalinventur im Historischen Museum Basel

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Jean-Jacques Lebel, ein Pionier der Aktionskunst, war Autor des ersten Happenings in Europa am 14. Juli 1960: «L’enterrement de la Chose de Tinguely». Seine Leidenschaft für Nietzsche und Bakunin – neben anderen Philosophen – trifft auf Tinguelys Leidenschaft für Kropotkin ...

Museum Tinguely

Jean-Jacques Lebel. «La Chose» de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et «Les Avatars de Vénus»

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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 ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Joseph Beuys. Collection Presentation

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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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Leaps in Time

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Foto mit Jean Tinguely Eva Aeppli und Per Olof Ultvedt mit Méta-Matic-Zeichnungen im Atelier Impasse Ronsin

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. ...

Museum Tinguely

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

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Mammoth & Sabre-Toothed Tiger – In a Land before our Time

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Glaubenswelten des Mittelalters Altarkreuz

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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Medieval Worlds of Faith

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The picture shows a detail of the lintels You can see a relief with a snake on it

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.

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

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Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

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Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage (*1984) creates an ambitious group of new works as the focus of his first exhibition in Switzerland. The moody, sumptuously layered figurative paintings draw equally from past and current events, recollections and mythology, popular culture ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Michael Armitage: «You, Who Are Still Alive»

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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 ...

Fondation Beyeler

Monday Tour

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Fondation Beyeler will devote an exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. As one of the most important artists of the avant-garde movement, Mondrian shaped the evolution of painting from figuration to abstraction. ...

Fondation Beyeler

Mondrian

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Besucherinnen und Besucher lernen einen volkstümlichen Paartanz

Hanny Christens Sammlung gilt als einer der grössten musikgeschichtlichen Schätze des Alpenraums. Über 11`000 Instrumentalstücke sammelte die Liestalerin, auch «Musighanneli» genannt, zuerst im Baselbiet und ab 1940 in der ganzen Schweiz. Sie notierte bei Bauern und ...

Museum.BL

Musighanneli. Die Volksmusik-Sammlerin Hanny Christen

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Everyone seems ‘to know’ Naples, even those who have never been there: its setting, its sounds, its people, its tastes, its informality and, not least, its stories, shaped by the fervour with which the inhabitants live this city. As numerous as these narratives are reproduced ...

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Napoli Super Modern

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Nature's Showcase – Birds, Mammals & Minerals in Switzerland

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

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Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

The interplay between figuration and abstraction is a fascinating subject in modern art. The new presentation of the collection illustrates this by juxtaposing important paintings and sculptures from impressionism, classical modernism, and contemporary art. A walk through the ...

Fondation Beyeler

Passages – Landscape, Figure and Abstraction

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Paul Hübner (1915-2003) was a painter and writer at the same time. The large art exhibition shows more than 40 of his paintings from the collection of the Three Countries Museum, which interact with his publications. His «Lappland Diary 1941», for example, is an important ...

Dreiländermuseum

Paul Hübner: painter and writer

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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 ...

Museum Tinguely

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

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The exhibition traces the encounter of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) with the old master El Greco (1541–1614). Masterpieces by both artists—including spectacular loans from around the world—are juxtaposed in about forty pairings to illuminate one of the most fascinating dialogues ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Picasso – El Greco

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Gipsplastiken gruppiert vor einer roten Wand

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.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

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Plastik prägt unseren Alltag wie kaum ein anderes Material: von der Verpackung bis zum Turnschuh, vom Haushaltsgerät bis zum Möbel, von Autos bis zur Architektur. Jahrzehntelang haben Kunststoffe die Vorstellungskraft von DesignerInnen und ArchitektInnen beflügelt, sie ...

Vitra Design Museum

Plastik. Die Welt neu denken

10.00 AM - 6.00 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.

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

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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 ...

Vitra Design Museum

Production Tours

12.30 PM - 1.30 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», ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

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Crude wooden stumps have been replaced by high-tech constructions. Another new approach is regenerative medicine, which seeks not only to restore dysfunctional cells, but even to grow new tissue. This exhibition guides visitors through the achievements of prosthetics and ...

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Replace, renew or even heal sick body parts

2.00 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 ...

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

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Trinkgefäss aus dem 17 Jahrhundert in Form eines Segelschiffs

Die Ausstellung ist die erste öffentliche Präsentation einer der hochkarätigsten Schweizer Silbersammlungen in Privatbesitz. Sie zeigt eine reiche Auswahl von Topstücken der europäischen Goldschmiedeproduktion. Kunstvolle Silbergefässe und raffinierte Trinkspiele geben ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Schöner trinken – Barockes Silber aus einer Basler Sammlung

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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. ...

Museum.BL

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

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Teil eines Fasnachtskostüms aus verschieden grossen und verschiedenfarbenen Stoffstückchen

Die Sammlungen des Museum der Kulturen Basel enthalten Bruchstücke, die Zeugnisse für Praktiken des Teilens und Verbindens sind. Es sind Überreste von Zerstörung, einst wirkmächtige, aus Einzelteilen zusammengesetzte Objekte. Gezeigt wird der Umgang damit und dass es stets ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Stückwerk: geflickte Krüge, Patchwork, Kraftfiguren

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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.

Hafenmuseum

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

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Ein Orchestrion der Firma Decap Antwerpen/B das eine kleine Jazzkaplle imitiert

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.

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers

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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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments

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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 ...

Basler Papiermühle

The hands-on museum where you can get in touch with paper

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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.

Augusta Raurica

The largest bronze model of a Roman city. Hands on Augusta Raurica!

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Museum Tinguely

The Luminator at the Euroairport

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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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

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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.

Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

8.00 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 ...

Museum.BL

The wilder side of the canton of Basel-Landschaft. On the trail of animals and plants

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Museum Tinguely

TINGUELY@HOME

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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 ...

Museum Kleines Klingental

Trees in Basel. The green in urban change

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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.

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 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 ...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Einblick in den Chor der Barfüsserkirche in der virtuellen Tour in 3D

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang der Barfüsserkirche in 3D

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Einblick in die Kutschendurchfahrt in der virtuellen Tour in 3D

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

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Klavier mit zwei Gemälden im Hintergrund.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Virtueller Rundgang des Musikmuseums in 3D

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Blick in den 3D-Rundgang der Ausstellung Übermensch Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean

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