Special

Fondation Beyeler

Absinthe delights with the Cocktaileers

7.30 PM

The figure of the absinthe drinker inspired many artists, including Picasso during his Blue Period – the so-called “green fairy” is a recurrent theme of fin-de-siècle painting and literature, as exemplified among others by Édouard Manet, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas and ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Advent at the Haus zum Kirschgarten

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Haus zum Kirschgarten looks more radiant than ever at Christmas time. Stylishly enhanced by a seasonal exhibition of Christmas trees, its magnificent Neoclassical architecture can be experienced in a whole new way.

The numerous trees festooned with historical ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Ammonite & Thunderbolt exhibition houses rocks from north west Switzerland that are between 16,000 and 250 million years old. They include the most important groups of micro-fossils, plants and invertebrates. These also include numerous fossils of aquatic creatures such ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Antoni Clavé / James Coignard. Focus Im Obersteg Collection

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Catalan native Antoni Clavé was considered one of the most important Spanish artists of the 20th century during the postwar era. Residing in France after 1939, his art was built on artisanal craftsmanship and a notable delight in experimentation with the application and ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

A Passion for Paintings. Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt: Collecting for Basel

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

In autumn 2019, the Kunstmuseum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt (1845-1920) by honouring his most important patron at the beginning of the 20th century. For the first time in a long time, large parts of the collection of 305 ...

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture tours (in English)

11.30 AM - 1.30 PM, 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM

The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture tours (in German)

11.00 AM - 1.00 PM, 1.30 PM - 3.30 PM

The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Arte popolare napoletana

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

One area of our museum's collection of miniatures is dedi- cated to the Neapolitan folk art of nativity-scene making. The exhibition with its scenes of typical everyday Mediter- ranean life conveys a unique insight into the life of the citizens of 18th-century Naples. The ...

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Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Roman travellers were greeted at the gates of Augusta Raurica by an ostentatious funerary monument of a confident individual which paid homage to his influential family. Nowadays the monument stands in front of the east gate and, surrounded by an idyllic animal park with rare ...

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Exhibition

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Automaton Music 4.0. 4 décennies, 4 thèmes, une exposition et des perspectives musicales

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

April 1979 saw the opening of the Museum of Music Automatons founded by Dr. h.c. Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher. Initially run as a private museum, it became a state institution in 1990 when the founder donated it to the Swiss Confederation.

To mark its anniversary, the ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Bags – Icons & investments

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

History of a timeless accessory

This popular women’s accessory can be big or small, soft or hard, carried by a handle or slung over the shoulder on a strap. Adorned with splendid gold chains or simple and elegant – the handbag.

Bags have not always been cult ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

1.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Basel Fasnacht (carnival) is a large festival of sounds and dreams, of colour and fantasy, but also of criticism and mockery. It has been evolving over the last 100 years. Since then, and now, this carnival has inspired the population and artists of this city into active ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

We are impressed and fascinated by bigness. Nowadays we tend to live, think and build entirely in terms of superlatives. The new permanent exhibition brings the big world to the museum, showcasing huge objects but, surprisingly, also many small exhibits. Because big doesn't ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Bima, Mr Punch, and Demon

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

We are all familiar with the theatre. A very common and popular form is the puppet theatre in various forms. The exhibition presents stick puppets, shadow play figures, glove puppets, and marionettes from across Asia and Europe. The narratives in which they feature are ...

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Guided Tour

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)

1.40 PM - 2.00 PM, 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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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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

What does the progressive economization of all areas of life mean for our individual and collective life? What ethical, social and global political consequences does it have? Various artists pursue these and other questions.

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Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Collection Beyeler / Collection Rudolf Staechelin

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

After a four-year absence, Rudolf Staechelin’s (1881–1946) renowned collection of paintings has finally returned to Basel. After a first concentrated exhibition showing a series of highly successful dialogues with masterpieces from the Beyeler Collection, the nineteen ...

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Special

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Competition “Bags – Icons & investments”

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Pull ideas out of your bag and pack in a prize.

Seeking bag artists

They are small or large, soft or hard, angular or round, fluffy or smooth. They have a simple handle or a shiny gold chain and can be called Falabella, Pompadour, Kelly bag or Ridicule. Very ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Controversial? Selected works from the collection

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Museums all over the world have recently found themselves put on the defensive by critics who demanded that they justify the presence in their collections of works of art that were regarded, for a variety of reasons, as provocative. The media have brought these challenges to ...

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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

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Diversity in the nativity scene

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

From the Baroque to modern times

Nativity scenes are still an integral part of church and domestic Christmas decorations and are made in all imaginable artistic styles and materials. Before the Christmas tree became widely used in the 19th century, the manger was the ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeugmuseum Riehen

Dolls

9.00 AM - 5.00 PM

This exhibition is all about the collection, collector’s passion and the collector herself. Not just for doll enthusiasts.

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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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Ein Basler Blick auf die Moderne. Der Fotoreporter Lothar Jeck 1898–1983

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Wer verstehen will, wie Basel zu einem Zentrum moderner Kunst in der Schweiz wurde, wird nach der Modernisierung der Stadt selbst in derselben Zeit Umschau halten. Fotografien zählen für uns Heutige zu den wichtigsten Zeugnissen dieses in der Zwischenkriegszeit vollzogenen ...

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Guided Tour

Kunsthaus Baselland

Exkursion: La Kunsthalle Mulhouse

2.00 PM

Exkursionen zu benachbarten Institutionen der Regionale unter der Leitung von Ines Goldbach: La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (F), keine Anmeldung notwendig, Treffpunkt am Empfang, Dauer ca. 1 Stunde

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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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Guided Tour Barrier-free

Fondation Beyeler

Führung für Sehbehinderte

4.30 PM - 5.30 PM

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Typology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items

10.00 AM - 6.00 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

Kunsthaus Baselland

Gina Folly

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Artist Gina Folly (b.1983, Zurich), who lives in Basel and Paris, has for several years engaged in detail with the medium of photography, to which she adds complementary forms and presentation possibilities. Plants, animals or everyday things and situations, through which she ...

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Guided Tour Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Gladiator. Bas les casques!

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Visite guidée de "Gladiator. Bas les casques!" Frais d'entrée + CHF 7, Réservation nécessaire. Appelez +41 61 201 12 12.

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Guided Tour Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Gladiator. Bas les casques!

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Visite guidée de "Gladiator. Bas les casques!" Frais d'entrée + CHF 7, Réservation nécessaire. Appelez +41 61 201 12 12.

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Gladiator. The true story

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Gladiator fights are among the most notorious spectacles of the ancient world. This lavishly designed exhibition challenges our established perception of gladiators and draws on new research to show the humans behind the helmets, their moving stories and their function in ...

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Gold & Glory – Gifts for Eternity

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

To celebrate the millennium of the consecration of Basel Cathedral in the presence of Emperor Henry II in the autumn of 1019 the Basel Historical Museum will be staging a special exhibition called «Gold & Glory – Gifts for Eternity» at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

This ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Gold & Glory. Gifts for Eternity

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Timed to coincide with the 1000th anniversary of the Basel cathedral’s consecration, which was celebrated in the fall of 1019 in the presence of Emperor Henry II, the exhibition Gold & Glory. Gifts for Eternity unfurls a panorama of cultural history that explores the reign ...

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Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Guided Tour

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

The one-hour-long guided tours provide an insight into the current exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. They are conducted daily by our experienced and knowledgeable art mediators.

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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

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

Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska: «Stable Vices»

11.00 AM - 8.30 PM

The black-and-white photographs and films by Joanna Piotrowska (*1985) capture the everyday drama of human relations. The Polish artist creates inexplicably strange and touching images, whose recording of gestures of care, self-protection, or control are as deftly composed as ...

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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.BL

Left and right

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Most people prefer one particular side, they're right- or left-handed. Where does this preference come from? And how does it feel like to do it the other way around? Try it out on the course and test your weak side.

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Len Lye

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Len Lye (1901–1980), a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, was one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 1930s to 1950s. In later years, he created a fascinating body of work embracing all artistic disciplines large parts of which – including his kinetic ...

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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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Special

Vitra Design Museum

Man Ray, Buñuel, Dalí – Surrealist Cinema

8.00 PM - 10.00 PM

Some of the milestones of film history were created by Surrealist artists like Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador Dalí. Apart from the dream worlds, obsessions, and chance encounters one would expect from a Surrealist director, their cinematic works also feature path-breaking ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Max Sulzbachner. Hustle and Bustle in Basel

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Kunstmuseum Basel is honouring the versatile work of the Basel artist Max Sulzbachner with a retrospective on the mezzanine floor of the Hauptbau. The focus is on the artist's early works, which were primarily characterized by their proximity to the Red-Blue I group, as ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Medieval Worlds of Faith

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Showcased here will be medieval works of art from churches in Switzerland and on the Upper Rhine. The impressive sculptures attesting to the veneration of saints are a reminder of how society was pervaded by the Christian faith and the church and of the influence they have ...

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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Special

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Mittagskonzert: Wenn historische Musikinstrumente lebendig werden - Lauschen Sie einem bunten Repertoire zur Mittagszeit

12.30 PM - 2.00 PM

Studierende der Fortepianoklasse von Edoardo Torbianelli an der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / FHNW bringen unsere historischen Instrumente zum Klingen.

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Mother and Child

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The infant and its parent figure make up an unequal couple. The relationship is subject to intense emotions and cultural norms. Across cultures, different notions of motherhood, ideal parents, and good children inform the image of the two figures. In Christian imagery, the ...

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Museum: Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Surrealism was one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century. In many works of Surrealists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, and Man Ray references to design objects can be found and since the 1930s, Surrealism has had a strong impact on ...

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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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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

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Collecting, a passion: But do we have to keep all these things and what significance do they have for us and our future? Private collectors present their treasures and museum curators give special insights into the museum's collections.

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Collecting, a passion: But do we have to keep all these things and what significance do they have for us and our future? Private collectors present their treasures and museum curators give special insights into the museum's collections.

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Public Enemy – Bruno Manser and the Rainforest (one showcase)

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Bruno Manser (1954–2005) was Switzerland’s best known environmentalist and human rights activist during his own lifetime. He ventured to Borneo in Malaysia to study the language and culture of the Penan, one of the last nomadic peoples on earth. As an activist he was ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Since its origins in the 18th century, the Natural History Museum Basel has repeatedly gathered examples on its expeditions of animal species that have since disappeared from the natural world. Thanks to the correct storage of the collection objects in our «Archives of Life», ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeugmuseum Riehen

Rebbau

9.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Im einstigen Weinkeller des Basler Bürgermeisters Wettstein wird die Geschichte des Rebbaus in Riehen und der Region eindrücklich dargestellt.

Der Raum, in dessen Zentrum eine alte Trotte steht, beeindruckt durch seine Grösse von 15 Metern Länge und 5 Metern Höhe. ...

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Exhibition Barrier-free

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)

Regionale 20

12.00 PM - 6.00 PM

A presentation of contemporary art at the HeK organised in conjunction with other institutions from the trinational region.

Curator: Boris Magrini

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Regionale 20: «Eine Karte -35/65+»

11.00 AM - 8.30 PM

For the 20th edition of Regionale, Kunsthalle Basel celebrates the origins of the tri-regional, multi-institutional collaboration by inviting former Kunsthalle Basel director Peter Pakesch, one of the initiators of Regionale, to curate the annual exhibition of work by artists ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Regionale 20 — Step out! Aufbruch in den Raum

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Anlässlich 20 Jahre Regionale findet im Kunsthaus Baselland, das zu den Mitbegründern dieser wichtigen Grossausstellung im Dreiländereck gehört, eine spezielle Regionale statt. Im besonderen Masse soll das Grenzüberschreitende dieses Formats thematisiert und von einem ...

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Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Resonating Spaces

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Resonating Spaces is the title of the exhibition at Fondation Beyeler at the end of this year. The artists featured in the exhibition are Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz and Rachel Whiteread. Instead of making a comprehensive group show with ...

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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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Workshop

Fondation Beyeler

SKETCH IT!

10.00 AM - 11.00 AM

Der Zeichenkurs bietet Kunstbegeisterten einmal pro Monat die Möglichkeit, sich mit ausgewählten Werken in der Fondation Beyeler zeichnerisch auseinanderzusetzen. Je nachdem, ob Landschaft, abstraktes Gemälde, Porträt oder Skulptur im Vordergrund stehen, kommen andere ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

so close - so distant

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Inside and outside spaces in painting, photography and installation.

Exhibition of the Verein Bildende Kunst (VBK) Lörrach in the Dreiländermuseum with works by Hilde Bauer, Stefan Bergmann, Monika Ruckstuhl and Konstantin Weber.

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Sound Pictures

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

They sang Parisian chansons, played Polish lute music or collected musical instruments: for Basel’s Renaissance burghers, polymaths like Bonifacius and Basilius Amerbach, Felix Platter and Ludwig Iselin, music was essential to the cultural life of the city. This is the story ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeugmuseum Riehen

Spielzeugmuseum

9.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das Spielzeugmuseum Riehen gliedert sich in drei grosse Kapitel: «Technik im Kinderzimmer», «Spielzeug aus Holz» und «Die Welt der Puppen». Dabei werden viele Fragen rund um Geschichte und Einsatz von Spielzeugen beantwortet: Wie und wo entsteht Spielzeug? Was lieben Jungs ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

StrawGold – Cultural Transformations Rendered Visible

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Why should someone make a Bavarian dirndl from African cloths? Moreover, in what way are these dresses still African? The exhibition «StrawGold» sheds light on entangled stories of this kind: everyday items, technologies, materials, political and religious concepts as well as ...

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Exhibition

Verkehrsdrehscheibe Schweiz und unser Weg zum Meer

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The permanent exhibition at the shipping museum is focusing on current means of transport, all rolled into one: water, rail, road and air, with the focus on shipping.

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Guided Tour

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

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

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

Museum Tinguely

Tadeusz Kantor: Où sont les neiges d’antan

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Die Ausstellung «Tadeusz Kantor: Où sont les neiges d’antan» des Museum Tinguely präsentiert einen der wichtigsten Theaterschaffenden und bildenden Künstler Polens des 20. Jahrhunderts mit einem seiner grossen Bühnenwerke. Mit kritischem Blick auf die verdrängte Geschichte ...

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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

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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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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Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The magnificent Kirschgarten House - built between 1775 and 1780 as the home and office of a Basle silk ribbon manufacturer - is one of Switzerland's principal museums of domestic life. Laid out on two floors, period rooms depict life during the eighteenth and nineteenth ...

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Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

8.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The former watermill at the Brüglingerhof offers an exhibition on the history of the watermill and millers' daily work from the Bronze Age up to the 21st century.

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Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The changeable permanent exhibition at the Museum.BL deals with life in its full splendour and takes visitors on a journey of discovery through the natural riches of the canton of Basel-Landschaft: A wealth of surprising natural paradises turns Basel into an ecologically very ...

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Museum der Kulturen Basel

Thirst for Knowledge meets Collecting Mania

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Museums face challenging times: what seemed a must for an ethnographic museum in the past – such as a collection of skulls – is now a sensitive issue. In collecting, objects were removed from their original contexts, items made of rare and precious materials such as ivory or ...

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Cartoonmuseum Basel

Tom Tirabosco

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Tom Tirabosco belongs to a generation of comics authors from Romandy, who have been attracting attention for several years with unusual and unconventional works. Born in 1966 in Rome, he has lived in Geneva since 1970 and also has his studio there today. His admiration of ...

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Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche and his Afterlife

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

«God is dead!» Thus spake Nietzsche as early as 1882, whereupon he had to grapple with the questions to which his prophetic declaration gave rise, specifically that of a new morality and how life might still be made meaningful even without religion. Nietzsche’s controversial ...

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S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Under the Radar

11.00 AM - 8.30 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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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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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Virtual Reality-Experience 'Reef Dive'

1.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Once more we are presenting you with a very special Christmas gift. But this time you are not soaring through the air with 'Birdly' but instead going underground. In the Virtual Reality Adventure 'Reef Dive – Explore the Ocean' you glide as turtle Rhea through a magnificently ...

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Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: After the Wall: Design since 1989

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Vitra Design Museum opened on 3 November 1989 – only a few days before the historic fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirty years later, the Vitra Schaudepot presents «After the Wall: Design since 1989Tejo RemyTejo Remy». The exhibition charts design from the past three decades, ...

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Vitra Design Museum

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

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Schaudepot was initiated with the goal of making the constantly growing collection of the Vitra Design Museum more accessible to the public.

The cornerstone for the collection was laid by the museum's founder Rolf Fehlbaum. In the 1980s he assembled a collection ...

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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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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Natural History Museum Basel presents 2019's best wildlife photographs. Breath taking landscapes, surprising animal portraits and dramatic spectacles of nature allow you to immerse yourself in the beauty and magic of nature.

«Wildlife Photographer of the Year» is ...

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