Exhibition

Basler Papiermühle

100 Jahre Celestino Piatti in der Basler Papiermühle

Closed

Eulen, Hamster, Tiger und noch vieles mehr hat der Schweizer Grafiker und Illustrator Celestino Piatti (1922–2007) zu ikonischen Zeichnungen verarbeitet. Einige seiner Motive fanden Ihren Weg auch in die Basler Papiermühle als Drucke oder Wasserzeichen. 2022 wäre Piatti ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Animalistic! – No Culture Without Animals

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

animalistic! – The Sound of Animals

Closed

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.

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Anouk Kruithof. Universal Tongue

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«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 ...

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Guided Tour

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 ...

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Guided Tour

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 ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Arte popolare napoletana

Closed

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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Special

Augusta Raurica

Auf Postenjagd durch die Römerstadt

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

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

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

CHAI - חי. When Gravestones Speak of Life

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

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.

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

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

Closed

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».

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

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

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis

10.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Daniel Turner: "Three Sites"

Closed

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 ...

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Special

Augusta Raurica

Das Namenlose Gespenst: Ein Rätselrundgang voller Düfte und Gerüche für die ganze Familie

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Exhibition

Hafenmuseum

Der Rhein und seine Weidlinge

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

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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

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Die Schweiz: Ein Abriss

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

Closed

How did the dinosaurs live? What did they eat? How quickly did they grow? Why did they get so big? And what was their social behaviour like? Our permanent exhibition offers plenty of answers to these and other questions. We'll show you that, actually, dinosaurs were far from ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

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Kennen Sie die RegioTriRhena, die Drei-Länder-Region am Rhein? Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweiz: Drei Länder und doch eine Region – das ist das Ergebnis einer einzigartigen Geschichte.

Welche Gemeinsamkeiten verbinden die drei Länder? Wie kam es zur Dreiteilung des ...

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Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Egypt. 3,000 years of culture on the Nile

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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 ...

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Digital Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Encountering Böcklin

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Encounters

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

Closed

The respect shown to every exhibit on display is evident both within the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel (Toy Worlds Museum Basle) and in its show windows in the prominent pedestrian precinct in the centre of Basel. Adequate space has been given to the displays throughout the ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

Closed

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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Exhibition

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

Closed

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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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Fun Feminism

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Gabriella Giandelli

Closed

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, ...

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Exhibition

Kunst Raum Riehen

Georg Freuler

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Green or grey in the city?

Closed

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, ...

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Exhibition Children

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Happy Birthday, Globi!

Closed

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, ...

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

Closed

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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Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

In addition to contemporary exhibits, the Museum possesses numerous, valuable, historical preparations which have been restored using the latest techniques. They are now presented in new displays. Of special historical interest, is the skeleton prepared in 1543 by Andreas ...

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Exhibition

Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

Closed

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.

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Ich hätte gerne einen typischen Chagall

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Inventarium – Eine Dokumentation der Generalinventur im Historischen Museum Basel

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Joseph Beuys. Collection Presentation

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Kelly Tissot. Spurious Crops

Closed

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, ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili: "Verkleidung"

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt: "Cat's Cradle"

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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 ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Leaps in Time

Closed

From Neanderthals to a pharmaceutical hub: Visitors embark on a tour of 100,000 years of Basel history with a selection of 50 objects and 100 milestones, six film spots on recent history, and an interactive installation of facts and images telling of the city’s development up ...

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

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

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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. ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

Closed

Once a caterpillar has battled its way out of its egg, it eats as much as it can. It changes its appearance, grows and metamorphoses in order to ultimately emerge from its chrysalis as a beautiful butterfly and fly through the air. We illustrate this remarkable stage of ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

Closed

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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Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Maude Léonard-Contant. Digs

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Medieval Worlds of Faith

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

Closed

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.

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

Closed

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Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Mondrian

10.00 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. ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

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

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

Closed

Invertebrates do not have a bony skeleton. Their striking appearance is often shaped by an exoskeleton as is the case with insects, or a shell system as found in mussels and snails. However they can also be soft and mobile, like worms. The exhibition offers an overview of the ...

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Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Oudolf Garten (DE)

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Seit 2020 bereichert ein Garten des niederländischen Gestalters Piet Oudolf den Vitra Campus. Die kunstvoll komponierte Wildnis aus etwa 30.000 Pflanzen vermittelt eine neue Perspektive auf die umliegende Architektur und nimmt das ganze Jahr über immer wieder neue Farbe an. ...

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

Closed

The Museum's permanent collections present a selection of the Jean Tinguely's machine-sculptures, reliefs and drawings from all the periods of his career. Further, a great number of drawings and letter-drawings, documents, exhibition posters, catalogues and documentation as ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

Closed

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

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

Closed

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

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Exhibition

HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)

Remix Nature

Closed

"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 ...

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Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Replace, renew or even heal sick body parts

2.00 PM - 5.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

Closed

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Schöner trinken – Barockes Silber aus einer Basler Sammlung

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

Closed

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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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Stückwerk: geflickte Krüge, Patchwork, Kraftfiguren

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Hafenmuseum

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

Closed

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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Exhibition

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers

Closed

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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Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments

Closed

Musical instruments from five centuries are shown in both their musical and social contexts and grouped according to musical genres or to occasions on which specific instruments were played. Visitors can also hear how the instruments sound and are given additional information ...

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Territories of Waste

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Basler Papiermühle

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

Closed

Seit 30 Jahren befindet sich die Basler Papiermühle im idyllischen Mühlenquartier St. Alban; in einem Haus, in dem über 500 Jahre lang Papier produziert wurde. Nach einer umfassenden baulichen Sanierung und Neukonzeption der Dauerausstellung wird das selber Hand anlegen und ...

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Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

In the wide space between the museum and the theatre of Augusta Raurica is a further attraction presented: the largest bronze model of a Roman city. With a dimension of 4.8 x 2.8 meters, it gives an impressive picture of the grandeur of the former metropolis.

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

The Luminator at the Euroairport

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

Closed

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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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

Museum.BL

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

Closed

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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Digital Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

TINGUELY@HOME

Closed

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Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Trees in Basel. The green in urban change

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

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

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.

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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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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang der Barfüsserkirche in 3D

Closed

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

Closed

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Virtueller Rundgang des Musikmuseums in 3D

Closed

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

Closed

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Exhibition Barrier-free

Kunsthaus Baselland

Werner von Mutzenbecher

Closed

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 ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean

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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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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Wild Boar and Lettuce

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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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