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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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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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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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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Fondation Beyeler

Drawing with Picasso

9.00 AM - 10.00 AM

On Thursdays, the museum opens its doors to creative early risers one hour early.
Led by a drawing expert, participants are able to try Picasso’s techniques right in front of the original works.

23 May 2019, Sketch it! Drawing as inspiration

The number ...

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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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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 - 8.30 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

3.00 PM - 3.45 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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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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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

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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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 ...

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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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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?

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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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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Kunsthalle Basel

Opening for the exhibition of Dora Budor

7.00 PM - 10.00 PM

Inspired by science fiction, cinema, and architectural history, Croatian-born artist Dora Budor (* 1984) mobilizes sound, pollution, and particles to create an exhibition that operates as a reactive machine.

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Vitra Design Museum

OPENING TALK | Christoph Niemann – Illustrating the Everyday (DE)

6.30 PM - 7.30 PM

Christoph Niemann is a prize-winning German illustrator, graphic artist, and author. His works, which often encourage us to take a fresh look at our environment, regularly appear in major magazines and newspapers, including »The New Yorker«, »The New York Times«, »TIME«, ...

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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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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

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 ...

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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.

9.00 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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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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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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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 - 10.00 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 ...

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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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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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