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

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

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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Special

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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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Skulpturhalle

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

Spielzeugmuseum Riehen

Dolls

11.00 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

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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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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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

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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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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Special

Dreiländermuseum

Lesung von Alexander Honold: Allegorien der Vergänglichkeit. Hebel, Benjamin und die Ästhetik der Ruine

5.00 PM - 6.30 PM

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Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Monday Tour

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Thematic Overview
Every second Monday we invite you to join in a discussion with our art mediators about selected works or a work series in the current exhibition. The Monday tour promises surprising insights and enables you to deepen your relationship to individual works ...

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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

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

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Skulpturhalle

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

Spielzeugmuseum Riehen

Rebbau

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 Höhe. ...

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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

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Skulpturhalle

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

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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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

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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