Exhibition

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

100 Jahre Heinrich Weiss - Fotos und Lieblingsobjekte aus dem Leben des Museumsgründers

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstags von Dr. h.c. Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher (*1920) präsentiert das Museum für Musikautomaten in einer Fotoausstellung Eindrücke aus dem Leben des Museumsgründers und kombiniert diese mit seinen musikalischen Lieblingsobjekten.

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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

Kunsthalle Basel

An exhibition by Nick Mauss: «Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.»

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Artist Nick Mauss (* 1980) has repeatedly turned exhibition-making—the assembly of precisely staged relations—into an art form. He especially conceives the scenography for this show, which brings together and reframes works by contemporary and historical figures, emphasizing ...

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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 der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

Closed

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 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

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

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

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Christoph Fischer: The world put on paper

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Artist Christoph Fischer, born in 1976 in Lucerne, attended the Lucerne University of Teacher Education and subsequently the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Since 2002, he has worked as a freelance artist and illustrator, e.g. for the publications «NZZ», «WOZ» and ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Closed until further notice: La, la, la. An exhibition to sing along with

10.00 AM - 5.00 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».

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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

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

Kunsthalle Basel

Deana Lawson: «Centropy»

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Creating meticulously staged yet profoundly intimate images of the sartorial styles, quotidian habits, and domestic interiors of the African diaspora in her native US or in Brazil and beyond, Deana Lawson’s (*1979) photographs are unforgettable portraits of contemporary Black life.

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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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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Digital: Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das Museum der Kulturen Basel ist immer virtuell offen. Von unserer speziellen Webseite aus gelangen Sie jederzeit ins Museum. Sie nehmen an Führungen teil, lernen die Lieblingsobjekte der Mitarbeitenden kennen, erfahren, an was wir arbeiten und können Bastelanleitungen oder ...

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Special

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Digital: Kurzführungen in den Ausstellungen

12.00 AM - 11.59 PM

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Special

Museum Tinguely

Digital: TINGUELY@HOME

12.00 AM - 11.59 PM

Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde des Museum Tinguely,
«Le définitif, c'est le provisoire» ist einer von Tinguelys Leitsprüchen. In diesen herausfordernden Tagen und Wochen scheint er besonders passend. Wir sind gezwungen, im Hier und Jetzt zu improvisieren, und wir versuchen ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Digital: Virtueller Rundgang der Barfüsserkirche in 3D

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Digital: Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

Closed

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Digital: virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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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 ...

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Workshop

Augusta Raurica

Drop-In Angebot: Römische Schiffe basteln

12.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Wir basteln römische Schiffe und testen sie gleich nebenan im Bassin.

Ab 6 Jahren in Begleitung einer volljährigen Person

Treffpunkt: im Forumszelt
CHF 5.00 Materialkosten pro Teilnehmer*in
Versicherung ist Sache der Teilnehmenden.

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Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Edward Hopper

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Fondation Beyeler’s 2020 spring exhibition will show works by Edward Hopper (1882–1967), one of the 20th century’s most important American painters. Hopper was born in Nyack, New York. After training as an illustrator, he studied painting at the New York School of Art ...

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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

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

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Typology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Many objects are not designed by professional designers, but have evolved across the centuries. In 2016 four French product designers – Guillaume Bloget, Raphael Daufresne, Thélonious Goupil, and Guillaume Jandin – began to explore the history of product archetypes, ...

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

Closed

Woran glaubt die Jugend? Welche Rolle spielt die Religion für Zwölf- und Dreizehnjährige, die in Basel in gläubigen, atheistischen und interkulturellen Familien aufwachsen? «Glaubensdinge» erkundete mit einer Schulklasse die Religionsvielfalt als Chance und als ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Grand Gestures. Four Decades of Swiss Abstraction

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

A fierce stroke of the brush that means the world? — Par for the course in the painting of Art Informel. Blending inspirations from Paris and New York, this variety of expressive abstraction caught on in Switzerland in the 1950s and developed into a richly diverse genre over ...

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Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

Closed

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

Schweizerisches 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 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

Vitra Design Museum

Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Our homes are an expression of the way we live, they shape our everyday routines and fundamentally affect our well-being. From February 2020, the Vitra Design Museum will present a major exhibition tracing the evolution of the contemporary private interior. Beginning with ...

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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

Kunsthaus Baselland

Lena Eriksson

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Lena Eriksson (*1971 in Visp, lebt in Basel) findet ihre Themen im Alltag, den sie auf ihre ganz eigene Weise zu beobachten versteht. Sie pflegt die Kunst des freundschaftlichen Austauschs und der Gastlichkeit, beschäftigt sich mit der spezifischen Wahrnehmung auf Reisen oder ...

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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

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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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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Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Modern Living. Detached houses in Basel and surroundings 1945-1975

Closed

The exhibition presents the single-family house as a cultural-historical and architectural phenomenon of post-war modernism in the Basel area.

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Exhibition

Kunst Raum Riehen

Motor

Closed

Die Ausstellung versammelt 12 künstlerische Positionen, deren Werke sich mit dem Begriff des Motors in seinem physischen wie geistigen Sinne auseinandersetzen. Es geht um den äusseren wie auch den inneren Antrieb. Um das Bedürfnis nach Bewegung und das Durchleuchten ihrer ...

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Exhibition

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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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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Special Children

Basler Papiermühle

Papiermaschine in Betrieb

1.00 PM - 3.30 PM

Die Langsieb-Laborpapiermaschine produziert vor den Augen der Besuchenden Endlos-DINA4-Papier.

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Pässe, Profiteure, Polizei. Ein Schweizer Kriegsgeheimnis

Closed

Das Jüdische Museum der Schweiz lüftet ab November 2019 mit dieser Ausstellung ein Schweizer Kriegsgeheimnis und erzählt vom Helfernetzwerk in und um den diplomatischen Dienst, das von der Schweiz aus Hunderte europäische Jüdinnen und Juden vor dem Tod rettete – was bislang ...

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Pedro Reyes. Return to Sender

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Pedro Reyes (*1972, Mexiko-Stadt) verwendet das Medium Skulptur in Projekten, die häufig eine soziale Dimension entfalten. Dabei spielen Partizipationsprozesse ebenso eine Rolle wie die Aufforderung zum kollektiven und individuellen Handeln. Schon in früheren Arbeiten hat er ...

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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

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Photo Competition SNAPSHOT

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

As part of the special exhibition WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, we invited amateur photographers to send us their most touching, impressive or funniest nature or animal picture. They had the opportunity to present their best nature photography to a wide audience and to ...

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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

Vitra Design Museum

POSTPONED: Gallery: Sea Change: Design Meets the Ocean

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Not only scientists and activists, but designers, too, are developing strategies to protect and regenerate the health of the oceans. Designer Julia Lohmann has been exploring the material qualities of algae with her «Department of Seaweed» since 2013. Through her work, she ...

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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

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

Fondation Beyeler

Silent Vision – Images of Calm and Quiet at the Fondation Beyeler

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Fondation Beyeler’s current collection display focuses on works of modern and contemporary art dealing with the topic of calm and quiet.The collection display presents key works of the Fondation Beyeler spanning the period from Impressionism to contemporary art, by Claude ...

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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

Verkehrsdrehscheibe Schweiz und unser Weg zum Meer

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

Closed

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

Closed

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

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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Exhibition

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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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

Kunstmuseum Basel

The Incredible World of Photography. Ruth and Peter Herzog collection

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

A portrait of the unique collection of photographs built by Ruth and Peter Herzog, the exhibition unfurls an «encyclopedia of life» to open up unexpected perspectives on the history of photography from its early days to the 1970s.

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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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

Closed

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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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

The Medieval and the Modern – Photographs of the Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

For centuries church towers served to make a city’s wealth and power visible for miles around. In the nineteenth century secular buildings began vying with them for attention. Some impressive photographs from the Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection bring that time of technical ...

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Exhibition

Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

Closed

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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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

The walking stick with a secret

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The incredible world of gadget sticks

Gadget or system canes by inventive spirits are perhaps the most fascinating and most collected canes. These quirky creations feature hidden devices such as a fan, an umbrella, a bottle and drinking glass, a perfume bottle or a ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Under the Radar

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Architecture does not exist in a vacuum, but is embedded in a larger territory that is essentially defined by political and economic agendas. The «architecture» of this territory is largely designed without architects. Nevertheless, or precisely for this reason, architects ...

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

Closed

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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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: Gae Aulenti: A Creative Universe

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Gae Aulenti is one of the most influential architects and designers of the post-war period. As early as the 1960s, her iconic creations – such as her «Locus Solus»« series (1964), the «Pipistrello» (1965) and «King Sun» (1967) lamps – played a vital role in Italy’s global ...

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: The Vitra Design Museum Collection - 1800 to the Present

12.00 PM - 5.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Wild Boar and Lettuce

Closed

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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