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

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Workshop

Augusta Raurica

An afternoon of playing for big and small

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Smartphones and game consoles stay in your pocket. The Roman boy Nobilianus invites you to discover his game box: strategy, luck and skill games are waiting for you!

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

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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Animalistic! – No Culture Without Animals

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

animalistic! – The Sound of Animals

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Ausstellungsansicht mit Videoinstallationen

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

Museum Tinguely

Anouk Kruithof. Universal Tongue

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (DE)

11.00 AM - 1.00 PM

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

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (DE)

2.00 PM - 4.00 PM

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

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (EN)

12.00 PM - 2.00 PM

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

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (EN)

3.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Arte popolare napoletana

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Tour through the exhibition with Kelly Tissot and Ines Tondar, curator of the exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Artist Talk: Kelly Tissot

3.00 PM

Augusta Raurica

Auf Postenjagd durch die Römerstadt

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Woods near Oele Oil painting by Piet Mondrian

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

Preis: Eintritt + CHF 7.–

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

Fondation Beyeler

Ausstellungsrundgang «Mondrian»

12.00 PM - 1.00 PM

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

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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Klettern an der Boulderwand in der Ausstellung Bergliebe

Von Gipfelgefühlen und Freundschaften: Die Tour führt durch die Geschichte des SAC Baselland bis auf knapp 3000 m ü. M. zur clubeigenen Tierberglihütte im Sustengebiet. Dabei lauschen wir Geschichten am Hüttentisch, vergleichen die Ausrüstung von damals und heute und treffen ...

Museum.BL

Bergliebe. 100 Jahre SAC Baselland

2.00 PM - 3.00 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 ...

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

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

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

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

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

CHAI - חי. When Gravestones Speak of Life

11.00 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».

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Vitra Design Museum

Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Daniel Turner (* 1983) is engaged in a critical examination of the lives of objects, often melting down, liquifying, burning, or otherwise transmuting the materiality of everyday objects into other forms. The US-American artist probes how the materialities of objects retain ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Daniel Turner: "Three Sites"

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Guided Tour Children

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Der Affe – Rundgang durch «tierisch!»

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Die Affen rasen durch den Wald und es geht auf Spurensuche durchs Museum!

Schon wieder wurden Kokosnüsse geklaut. Wo diese wohl hingekommen sind? Affen als tierische Verwandte des Menschen sorgen für viel Spass und skurrile Darstellungen. Auf dem Rundgang gibt es so ...

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

Hafenmuseum

Der Rhein und seine Weidlinge

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Antike Plastiken in einer Gruppe vor einer Wand stehend

Die Skulpturhalle Basel besitzt mehr als 100 Abgüsse von griechischen Bildnissen. In der neuen Dauerausstellung präsentiert sie diese erstmals in einer zugänglichen und aufschlussreichen Neupräsentation.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Curated by Countdown 2030
In Switzerland, over 500 kilograms of construction waste are produced every second through the demolition of buildings. The building industry is thus responsible for 84% of waste in the country. Landfills are filling up faster than new sites ...

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Die Schweiz: Ein Abriss

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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

Museum Tinguely

Digital: TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Egypt. 3,000 years of culture on the Nile

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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

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

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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Encountering Böcklin

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

An exhibition by the Verein Bildende Kunst (VBK) Lörrach e.V. in cooperation with the Meeraner Kunstverein e.V.
For years, the city of Lörrach has maintained lively city partnerships, since 1990 with Meerane in Saxony. Already in 2007, an exchange between the Lörrach and ...

Dreiländermuseum

Encounters

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has rearranged the 400 objects by colour. This offers an entirely new perspective on the collection, allowing cross-references between epochs and styles while providing a monumental experience of colours. Discover highlights from the Vitra ...

Vitra Design Museum

Exhibition Tour »Colour Rush!« (DE)

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Kinder ahmen in der Ausstellung Wildes Baselbiet die schlafenden Tiere nach

Guided Tour Children

Museum.BL

Familienführung: Winterschlaf

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Reh, Frosch und Igel - was machen sie, wenn's draussen schneit? Eine Themenführung durch die Ausstellung «Wildes Baselbiet. Tieren und Pflanzen auf der Spur»

Die Führung «Winterschlaf» nimmt verschiedene tierische Strategien unter die Lupe: Warum überwintern gewisse ...

Freier Eintritt für Familien in die Ausstellung

Kunsthaus Baselland

Familiensonntag

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

10.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Kosten: Museumseintritt, ohne Anmeldung, auf Deutsch

Museum Tinguely

Führung Territories of Waste

11.30 AM - 12.30 PM

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

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Fun Feminism

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Gabriella Giandelli

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Die Ausstellung im Herbst ist dem 1938 in Basel geborenen, in Riehen lebenden Fotografen Georg Freuler gewidmet. Georg Freuler besuchte die Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, befasste sich mit der Schweizer Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts und wurde selbst zu einer Fotolegende. Seit ...

Kunst Raum Riehen

Georg Freuler

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

With his camera, photographer Martin Schulte-Kellinghaus started a quest for green and grey - especially in the city of Lörrach. The exhibition reveals his findings: A lot of GREY in the form of streets, house walls, sealed surfaces, but also a lot of GREEN: trees, parks, ...

Dreiländermuseum

Green or grey in the city?

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Exhibition Children

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Happy Birthday, Globi!

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

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

To celebrate Globi’s birthday, ...

Christoph Niemann, »Robot Morph«, 2016 © Christoph Niemann

Exhibition Barrier-free

Vitra Design Museum

Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

The permanent exposition in the historical rooms of the former Klingental Dominican convent features original medieval sculptures from Basel Cathedral, a 17th-century model of the city, and the history of the convent itself.

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

10.00 AM - 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 ...

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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

Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

The Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel exhibits one of the world's largest collections dedicated to the history of pharmacy. Alchemistic laboratories, pharmacies, scientific instruments, ceramics, and many other highlights are shown in a medieval house.

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das Kunstmuseum Basel zeigt, welchen Einfluss verschiedene private Sammlerinnen und Sammler auf den Durchbruch von Marc Chagall (1887–1985) hatten. Ausgangspunkt für die Ausstellung Ich hätte gerne einen typischen Chagall im Zwischengeschoss des Hauptbaus bilden die Gemälde ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Ich hätte gerne einen typischen Chagall

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Was machen die «Inventis» in den ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Inventarium – Eine Dokumentation der Generalinventur im Historischen Museum Basel

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

These are on display ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Joseph Beuys. Collection Presentation

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Guided Tour Children

Basler Papiermühle

Kalligrafie - die Kunst des Schreibens

11.00 AM - 1.00 PM

Demonstriert von Sibylle Bodmer

Since 2016, Kelly Tissot (*1995) has been working on photographic series that radically break away from a romantic image of the landscape or our perception of it. The French artist examines contradictions between the cultural and the natural, domesticity and wilderness, ...

Kunsthaus Baselland

Kelly Tissot. Spurious Crops

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Kunsthalle Basel

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili: "Verkleidung"

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Workshop

Kunsthaus Baselland

Kinderworkshop (6–12 Jahre)

2.00 PM - 4.00 PM

mit Meret Glausen, Leitung Vermittlung
Unkostenbeitrag Material: 5 CHF / Person; Mit Familienpass 4 CHF / Person
Vielen Dank für Ihre Anmeldung an meret.glausen@kunsthausbaselland.

Cat’s Cradle unites ten individual artists, ten independent points of view, and ten different approaches. Common to each is that Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt funded them in 2021, but what connects them beyond this?

Like the titular childhood game of string figures, which ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt: "Cat's Cradle"

11.00 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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Leaps in Time

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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

Museum Tinguely

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

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The title of the exhibition says it all: it is about digging something up, in a figurative sense; bringing something to light that until now has tended to lie hidden, beneath the surface, beneath the obvious. For many years, the Basel-based artist, who is originally from ...

Kunsthaus Baselland

Maude Léonard-Contant. Digs

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Glaubenswelten des Mittelalters Altarkreuz

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Medieval Worlds of Faith

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Fondation Beyeler

Mondrian

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The exhibition shines the spotlight on indigenous birds, mammals and minerals. The exterior of birds and mammals reveals a lot about how they move, hunt and eat. Two habitats, the city and the mountains, show examples of how animals are able to adapt to a constantly changing ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Opening

Kunsthalle Basel

Opening Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt "Cat’s Cradle"

11.00 AM - 2.00 PM

Greeting from Beat Jans, President of the Government of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, and introduction by Len Schaller, curator of the exhibition, at 11 am

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

The garden created by Dutch designer Piet Oudolf in 2020 adds another facet to the Vitra Campus. An artful wilderness, it consists of nearly thirty thousand plants and covers four thousand square metres. Its array of colours changes with the seasons, providing a rich setting ...

Vitra Design Museum

Oudolf Garten (DE)

3.00 PM - 4.00 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 ...

Museum Tinguely

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Gipsplastiken gruppiert vor einer roten Wand

This is one of the largest collections of plaster casts of ancient sculptures. Its complete reconstruction of the sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens is the only one of its kind.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Discursive guided tour in German through the exhibition Emmanuel Van der Auwera: Seeing is Revealing.
Every Sunday at 15:00 we offer an intorductive discursive guided tour of our current exhibition in German.

Participation in the guided tour is included in the ...

HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)

Public guided tour

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Every Sunday at 3 pm, the Kunsthalle Basel team leads all interested visitors on a guided tour through the current exhibitions.

Kunsthalle Basel

Public guided tour, in German

3.00 PM - 4.00 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», ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

"Earthbound – In Dialogue with Nature" shows works by contemporary artists who deal with pressing environmental issues.

This international group exhibition features works by contemporary artists who address pressing environmental issues, particularly highlighting the ...

HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)

Remix Nature

12.00 PM - 6.00 PM

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

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Replace, renew or even heal sick body parts

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Erweiterte Formen und Miniaturen von 1547
Ein Gambenconsort in der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts hätte viele Arten von Repertoire gespielt, darunter auch die oft vernachlässigten instrumentale Ricercari. Dieser Praxis soll in diesem Konzert anhand von drei Sammlungen aus dem ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

ReRenaissance-Basel: Unitas et Varietas

6.15 PM - 7.15 PM

Während sich die griechischen Bildnisse gleichmässig auf die drei Kategorien ‹Dichter›, ‹Denker› und ‹Politiker› verteilen, entfällt der weitaus grösste Teil der hinterlassenen Porträts römischer Zeit auf Bildnisse von Angehörigen der Kaiserhäuser bzw. auf solche von ...

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Spaziergang mit Künstlerin Romy Rüegger
11-12.30 Uhr / 13.30-14.30 Uhr / 16-17.30 Uhr

Teilnahme begrenzt (max. 5), Anmeldung erforderlich, Kosten: 12 CHF
Performanceticket berechtigt zum Eintritt ins Museum am selben Tag.
Treffpunkt: Museum Tinguely, ...

Museum Tinguely

Romy Rüegger, Ennui Public Haze (Stream Plays), 2022 - Performance

11.00 AM - 12.30 PM, 1.30 PM - 2.30 PM, 4.00 PM - 5.30 PM

Trinkgefäss aus dem 17 Jahrhundert in Form eines Segelschiffs

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Schöner trinken – Barockes Silber aus einer Basler Sammlung

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. ...

Museum.BL

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Workshop Children

Basler Papiermühle

Spielerische Druckwerkstatt

1.00 PM - 4.45 PM

Ob Salat, Löffel oder Radiergummi: bei uns wird alles zum Druckwerkzeug!
Offener Workshop mit Julianna Filep

Im Eintritt inbegriffen, keine Anmeldung erforderlich

Teil eines Fasnachtskostüms aus verschieden grossen und verschiedenfarbenen Stoffstückchen

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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Stückwerk: geflickte Krüge, Patchwork, Kraftfiguren

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.

Hafenmuseum

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 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.

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The entire ecosphere – the oceans, the air, our food, the soil, even the Antarctic – contains residues, particles and chemicals derived from our consumer culture. The extraction of raw materials leaves behind destroyed landscapes and toxic spoil. Waste is everywhere. The ...

Museum Tinguely

Territories of Waste

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Basler Papiermühle

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

11.00 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.

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Jean Tinguely’s Luminator was designed in 1991 for the Kulturgüterzug Kulturgüterzug (“train of cultural goods”), an exhibition organized by Klaus Littmann at Messe Basel in June of that year. For the exhibition artists such as Daniel Spoerri, Bernhard Luginbühl and Eva ...

Museum Tinguely

The Luminator at the Euroairport

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

11.00 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.

Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

8.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Museum Tinguely

TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Museum Kleines Klingental

Trees in Basel. The green in urban change

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Since it was founded in 1966, Basel's Jewish Museum has assembled a cultural-historical collection unique in Europe. In 2016 it celebrates its 50th anniversary with a display of noteworthy artifacts, such as textiles, ceremonial objects, everyday items, and a Torah arc from ...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang der Barfüsserkirche in 3D

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Einblick in die Kutschendurchfahrt in der virtuellen Tour in 3D

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Klavier mit zwei Gemälden im Hintergrund.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Virtueller Rundgang des Musikmuseums in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

In Kooperation mit der Weinhandlung Chez Grisoni bietet das Historische Museum Basel an drei Tagen im Haus zum Kirschgarten eindrückliche Genussmomente an.

Die Weinhandlung Chez Grisoni bietet eine kleine erlesene Weindegustation zum Preis von CHF 25 an. ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Wein und Schilder, die ins Wirtshaus locken – Führung und Degustation in Partnerschaft mit Chez Grisoni

3.00 PM - 7.00 PM

Bambusstäbe zusammengefügt zu einer Art Karte die in der Luft hängt und an die Wand Schatten wirft

Interessierte sind eingeladen, das Haus und seine Geschichte zu erkunden: Sie erfahren von abenteuerlichen Forschungsreisen und akribischem Sammeln, sehen überraschende Objekte aus aller Welt und bekommen Einblicke in heutige Felder der Ethnologie.

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Weltsichten

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Exhibition Barrier-free

Kunsthaus Baselland

Werner von Mutzenbecher

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Werner von Mutzenbecher has been one of the main protagonists of the Basel cultural scene since the early 1970s—both as an artist and a long-time teacher at the Basel School of Design, as well as through his interim leadership of Kunsthalle Basel in the 1970s. His works can ...

The permanent Whale & Fish exhibition offers a magical view not only over the rooftops of Basel, but also most importantly of the wonderfully presented skeleton of a minke whale. It lay for forty years in the collection room before finding its way into the exhibition. Another ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM