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Augusta Raurica
#letsmuseeum-Tour veni, vidi, byebye?
2.00 PM - 3.15 PM
Das sagenumwobene, glanzvolle Römische Reich ist untergegangen. Die #letsmuseeum-Tour geht der Frage nach: Was ist da schiefgelaufen? Wie haben die Römer es geschafft, so vieles richtig, aber auch so falsch zu machen? Die alten Ruinen leben wieder auf und erzählen ...
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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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Kunstmuseum Basel
Antoni Clavé / James Coignard. Focus sur la collection Im Obersteg
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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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Aqua. Photographies de Michel Roggo
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Bears and crocodiles, tropical forests and fathomless caves, glacial lakes and rivers teeming with fish, these are just some of the plethora of predominantly sub-aqueous motifs captured by Freiburg-based photographer Michel Roggo. Setting out to take pictures of all the main ...
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Vitra Design Museum
Architecture tour (EN)
11.00 AM - 1.00 PM
The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...
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Vitra Design Museum
Architecture tour (EN)
1.30 PM - 3.30 PM
The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. Few other places in the world can boast such a large number of contemporary architectural icons. It was here that Zaha Hadid created her very first structure in 1993 – the Fire Station – and American ...
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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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HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Artificial intelligence – Living with Artificial Intelligence
12.00 PM - 6.00 PM
The international group exhibition is dedicated to the current topic of artificial intelligence and the pervasive presence of intelligent and learning algorithms and machines in our networked world. Works by artists grappling with the impacts of artificial intelligence on ...
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Fondation Beyeler
Artist Talks: Rudolf Stingel
6.30 PM - 8.00 PM
Rudolf Stingel will discuss his work with guest curator Udo Kittelmann, on the occasion of his exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler.
The talk will be conducted in German. Places are limited. The artist talk is included in the museum entry. The exhibition can be viewed ...
The talk will be conducted in German. Places are limited. The artist talk is included in the museum entry. The exhibition can be viewed ...
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Augusta Raurica
Augusta Raurica animal park
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Roman travellers were greeted at the gates of Augusta Raurica by an ostentatious funerary monument of a confident individual which paid homage to his influential family. Nowadays the monument stands in front of the east gate and, surrounded by an idyllic animal park with rare ...
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Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Ausstellung "Behind the Scenes": Cartoonsammler geben Einblick
2.30 PM
Die Sammler hinter der Ausstellung "Sind Cartoons Kunst?" laden zu einem Blick hinter die Kulissen ein, führen durch die Ausstellung und berichten zu den ausgestellten Werken sowie zur Entstehung ihrer Sammlungen. Am 5. Mai und 2. Juni mit Dieter Tschudin, am 26. Mai und 23. ...
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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 ...
To mark its anniversary, the ...
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Museum Kleines Klingental
Basler Münster. A once in a millennium building
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
On the occasion of the 1,000-year anniversary of the Heinrichs-Münster, the museum is staging a special exhibition which presents the varied construction history of the Basler Münster.
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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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Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)
1.40 PM - 2.00 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 ...
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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Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen
Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)
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 ...
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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Augusta Raurica
Brotbacken: Vom Korn zum Römerbrot
11.00 AM - 12.30 PM
Wie wurde vor 2000 Jahren Korn zu Brot verarbeitet? Schritt für Schritt erleben und gestalten Kinder und ihre Familien gemeinsam eine Brotproduktion wie in römischer Zeit: Zuerst wird das Korn auf der römischen Steinmühle gemahlen. Danach fordert das Kneten und Formen des ...
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Augusta Raurica
Brotbacken: Vom Korn zum Römerbrot
1.00 PM - 2.30 PM
Wie wurde vor 2000 Jahren Korn zu Brot verarbeitet? Schritt für Schritt erleben und gestalten Kinder und ihre Familien gemeinsam eine Brotproduktion wie in römischer Zeit: Zuerst wird das Korn auf der römischen Steinmühle gemahlen. Danach fordert das Kneten und Formen des ...
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Augusta Raurica
Brotbacken: Vom Korn zum Römerbrot
3.00 PM - 4.30 PM
Wie wurde vor 2000 Jahren Korn zu Brot verarbeitet? Schritt für Schritt erleben und gestalten Kinder und ihre Familien gemeinsam eine Brotproduktion wie in römischer Zeit: Zuerst wird das Korn auf der römischen Steinmühle gemahlen. Danach fordert das Kneten und Formen des ...
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Augusta Raurica
Children? Children! Searching for traces in Augusta Raurica
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Who were the children of Augusta Raurica? What kind of childhood did they have? Did they have toys? Did they go to school? Or did they, like the adults, have to work? During the town’s heyday, some 15,000 people lived in Augusta Raurica. One third were less than 15 years old! ...
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Kunsthaus Baselland
Clément Cogitore. Part II
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
With this two-part exhibition from the Parisbased artist Clément Cogitore (b. 1983, Colmar)the Kunsthaus Baselland presents the firstSwiss solo exhibition by the 2018 Prix MarcelDuchamp winner. In a practice that has developed over many years, the French filmmaker and ...
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Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel
Corsets
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Selected pieces from the belle époque and beyond
Numerous myths surround the corset. For more than four centuries, it was considered a means of representing feminine beauty and seduction. Never before has a garment aroused so much longing, rumor and fantasy, ...
Numerous myths surround the corset. For more than four centuries, it was considered a means of representing feminine beauty and seduction. Never before has a garment aroused so much longing, rumor and fantasy, ...
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Kunsthalle Basel
Curator’s tour, in English
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM
Guided tour by the director and curator Elena Filipovic (in English), through the current solo exhibitions of Geumhyung Jeong and Dora Budor.
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Augusta Raurica
Das Namenlose Gespenst: Ein Rätselrundgang voller Düfte und Gerüche für die ganze Familie
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
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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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Kunsthalle Basel
Dora Budor: "I am Gong"
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
For her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, Dora Budor (* 1984) investigates the architectural history of Kunsthalle Basel and its surroundings in order to use sound, dust, and environmental data from dissonant temporalities to create an evolving “score” for her ...
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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Familienrundgang durch die Sonderausstellung Unterwegs im Ohr
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
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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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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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Kunstmuseum Basel
From Beckmann to Nolde. Aus dem Kupferstichkabinett
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Around 1905, a number of young and as yet obscure artists, among them Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Emil Nolde, set out to write the most important chapter in the history of printmaking in the twentieth century. Flouting traditional ...
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Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli
Funeral Artefacts
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
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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Vitra Design Museum
Gallery: Lake Verea: Paparazza Moderna
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Mexican artists Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea portray forgotten or hidden homes designed by renowned modernist architects. They approach these buildings like paparazzi – unannounced and spontaneous – with the aim of capturing them in an unembellished, completely ...
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Kunsthalle Basel
Geumhyung Jeong: "Homemade RC Toy"
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
At once tender and unsettling, the films, sculptures, installations, and performances of Geumhyung Jeong (* 1980) are often studies in animism of some sort. For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, the South Korean artist and choreographer focuses her attention on the ...
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Fondation Beyeler
Guided Tour
12.00 PM - 12.45 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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Fondation Beyeler
Guided Tour
2.00 PM - 2.45 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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HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Guided tour on Sundays
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM
Every Sunday we offer a free guided tour through the current exhibition.
The guided tours are in German, however, please contact us if you are English speaking and we might be able to organise a tour in both languages.
The tour starts at 3pm, registration is ...
The guided tours are in German, however, please contact us if you are English speaking and we might be able to organise a tour in both languages.
The tour starts at 3pm, registration is ...
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Kunstmuseum Basel
Helmut Federle. 19 E. 21st St., Six Large Paintings
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Since then, numerous museums and private collections, including the Tate Modern, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, have acquired works by Federle; in 1997, he represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale. Yet discussions of his art have tended to eschew the issues at ...
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Vitra Design Museum
Highlights from the Collection (DE)
11.30 AM - 12.30 PM
The history of modern furniture design, trends and styles, protagonists and producers, experiments and icons.
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Vitra Design Museum
Highlights from the Collection (DE)
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The history of modern furniture design, trends and styles, protagonists and producers, experiments and icons.
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Vitra Design Museum
Highlights from the Collection (EN)
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
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Museum Kleines Klingental
Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The permanent exposition in the historical rooms of the former Klingental Dominican convent features original medieval sculptures from Basel Cathedral, a 17th-century model of the city, and the history of the convent itself.
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Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Historical Preparations
10.00 AM - 4.00 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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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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Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel
Inside Motion. Medicine in the Fourth Dimension
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The exhibition provides insight into the moving interior of the living human body. Visitors are invited to discover the worlds of modern medicine and the human body via virtual and augmented reality. On three workshops, the researchers who developed these technologies at ...
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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Into the Ear. A sensory experience
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The construction of the ear, how vertebrates hear and produce sounds, and how the ear has developed over time will amaze both children and adults alike at this special exhibition. Large models of the ear, the auricle and cochlea - as tall as rooms thus and walk-in-able - will ...
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Cartoonmuseum Basel
Joann Sfar
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Joann Sfar has been a source of stimuli for the contemporary comic for over 20 years. Growing up with Jewish culture in a family home full of literature, he wrote and illustrated at an early age. Today, his oeuvre includes over 160 publications in the French-speaking world ...
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Kunstmuseum Basel
Le cosmos du cubisme. De Picasso à Léger
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
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Kunstmuseum Basel
Leiko Ikemura. Toward New Seas
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura first caused a stir in Switzerland in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational compositions that associated her with the Neue Wilde. She later rose to international renown with girlish figures unmoored from reality and cosmic ...
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Vitra Design Museum
Living in a Box: Design in Comic and Cartoon
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Since their inception in the early 20th century, comics and cartoons have become a global phenomenon. The Vitra Design Museum exhibition »Living in a Box« demonstrates the close relationship of comics and cartoons to design.
Classic furnishings and interiors depicted ...
Classic furnishings and interiors depicted ...
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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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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 ...
Mammals today account for ...
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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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Museum Kleines Klingental
monuments musicaux: Thematische Kammermusiktage zum Basler Münster
6.00 PM
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Vitra Design Museum
Museum: Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Indian architect, urban planner, and teacher Balkrishna V. Doshi (born 1927 in Pune, India) ranks among the most influential pioneers of modern Indian architecture. In 2018 he won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. Since the 1950s he has created more than 100 ...
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Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?
10.00 AM - 4.00 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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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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Kunstmuseum Basel
Neu im Kupferstichkabinett
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Die Sammlung des Kupferstichkabinetts wird stetig durch Ankäufe, aber auch zahlreiche Geschenke erweitert. Die neu hinzugekommenen Werke erscheinen zwar in der Regel in der Sammlung Online oder werden im Jahresbericht erwähnt, sind aber oft erst viel später in einer ...
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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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Fondation Beyeler
Open Studio
2.00 PM - 6.00 PM
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Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
Original Dissections
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.
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Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Papier, Stift & Eine Idee: Erstelle deinen eigenen Comic
2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Du zeichnest gern und findest Comics lustig? In diesem Workshop lernst du, wie du dein eigenes Comic-Heft herstellen kannst. Du entwickelst und zeichnest deine eigenen Figuren und erweckst sie in kurzen Geschichten zum Leben. Der Comiczeichner Koostella unterstützt dich ...
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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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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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Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Rebbaumuseum
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Im einstigen Weinkeller des Basler Bürgermeisters Wettstein wird die Geschichte des Rebbaus in Riehen und der Region eindrücklich dargestellt.
Der Raum, in dessen Zentrum eine alte Trotte steht, beeindruckt durch seine Grösse von 15 Metern Länge und 5 Metern ...
Der Raum, in dessen Zentrum eine alte Trotte steht, beeindruckt durch seine Grösse von 15 Metern Länge und 5 Metern ...
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Augusta Raurica
Römischer Spielnachmittag
1.00 PM - 4.00 PM
Smartphones, Spielkonsolen und Tablets bleiben in der Tasche. Dafür spielen Sie gemeinsam unter kundiger Anleitung Spiele, die schon zur Römerzeit beliebt gewesen sind.
Ohne Anmeldung, Eintritt frei.
Ohne Anmeldung, Eintritt frei.
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Fondation Beyeler
Rudolf Stingel
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Fondation Beyeler will devote its summer exhibition 2019 to contemporary painter Rudolf Stingel (born in 1956 in Merano, Italy, he lives and works in New York and Merano).
From his very beginnings in the late 1980s, Rudolf Stingel has approached painting in a ...
From his very beginnings in the late 1980s, Rudolf Stingel has approached painting in a ...
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Vitra Design Museum
Schaudepot: The Vitra Design Museum Collection - 1800 to the Present
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
The Schaudepot was initiated with the goal of making the constantly growing collection of the Vitra Design Museum more accessible to the public. The cornerstone for the collection was laid by the museum's founder Rolf Fehlbaum. In the 1980s he assembled a collection of ...
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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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Kunsthaus Baselland
Simone Forti
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Los Angeles-based Simone Forti (b. 1935, Florence) has been one of the most avant-garde international performance, dance and video artists since the 1960s. Forti defines herself as a ‘movement artist’. At the core of her work lies her interest in what our bodies can know ...
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Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Sind Cartoons Kunst? Jules Stauber und Co.
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Sammeln ist nicht nur Museumstätigkeit, sondern auch eine individuelle Leidenschaft. Zwei Riehener Privatsammler, Dieter Tschudin und Urs Zellmeyer, zeigen im Spielzeugmuseum Riehen in der Gastausstellung „Sind Cartoons Kunst? Jules Stauber und Co.“ Cartoons aus ihren ...
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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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Spielzeugmuseum Riehen
Spielzeugmuseum
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Das Spielzeugmuseum Riehen gliedert sich in drei grosse Kapitel: «Technik im Kinderzimmer», «Spielzeug aus Holz» und «Die Welt der Puppen». Dabei werden viele Fragen rund um Geschichte und Einsatz von Spielzeugen beantwortet: Wie und wo entsteht Spielzeug? Was lieben Jungs ...
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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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S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum
Swim City
11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The exhibition «Swim City» will be the first to draw attention to one particular contemporary phenomenon in the urban space: river swimming as a mass movement – a 21st-century Swiss invention. For decades, cities like Basel, Bern, Zurich and Geneva have been gradually making ...
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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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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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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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Kunstmuseum Basel
The cosmos of Cubism. From Picasso to Léger
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
When Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered Cubism in the early years of the twentieth century, they set off a revolution in visual art. The new style’s fragmented forms signal a fundamental change in how painting relates to the visible world. The Cubists rank as one of ...
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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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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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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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Museum.BL
The pig. Likeable, clever and tasty
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
They play, cultivate friendships and react curiously to every little change: The Museum.BL accompanies pigs on a farm and shows how unusually varied the short life of a fattening pig can be.
An animal that we use and which is so similar to us at the same time: Why ...
An animal that we use and which is so similar to us at the same time: Why ...
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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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Fondation Beyeler
The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
This exhibition, the most ambitious ever staged by the Fondation Beyeler, is devoted to the paintings and sculptures of the young Pablo Picasso from the so-called Blue and Rose periods, between 1901 and 1907. For the first time in Europe, the masterpieces of these crucial ...
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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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Fondation Beyeler
Visita guiada en Español
3.00 PM - 3.45 PM
Visita guiada a la exposición temporal «Picasso»
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Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Visite guideé: Balade parmi les joyaux de la Barfüsserkirche
3.00 PM
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Fondation Beyeler
Visite guidée en Français
3.00 PM - 3.45 PM
Visite guidée dans l'exposition temporaire.
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Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Ways of Knowing the World
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
In its most radical modernization project since 1981, the Historical Museum Basel is redesigning its permanent collection henceforth to be housed in the basement of the Barfüsserkirche. The presentation of the collection called "Ways of Knowing the World”, on 1,200 square ...
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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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Barrier-free
Ausstellungsraum Klingental
Zur goldenen Rampe
10.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Als temporärer Ersatz für die kantonale Fachstelle für Behinderte betreiben Simon Fürstenberger und Cilio Minella ein experimentelles Büro, wo sich Menschen auf Augenhöhe begegnen. Wir sind eine Beratungsstelle. Wir sind ein Gesprächsangebot. Wir sprechen über Bedürfnisse und ...
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