Exhibition

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

50 Jahre Ausstellungsraum Klingental - 50 Basler Künstler*innen

3.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Wir feiern das Jubiläum mit einer Ausstellung im öffentlichen Raum mit Werken von 50 Basler Künstler*innen.
Am 4. Mai 1974 wurde auf dem Kasernenareal in den umgebauten Militärküchen die Ausstellung "Gegenständlich" im Ausstellungsraum Klingental, damals Ausstellungsraum ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Alive – more than human worlds

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

How do we humans perceive our co-world? What is our relationship with the Earth, other creatures, and things? What values regulate our social coexistence? In our quest for a shared future and alternative forms of coexistence, we explore local perspectives, actions, and ideas.

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Exhibition

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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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!

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (EN)

3.00 PM - 5.00 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 (EN)

12.00 PM - 2.00 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

Architekturführungen (DE)

2.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Der Vitra Campus ist ein Magnet für Design- und ArchitekturliebhaberInnen. An kaum einem anderen Ort finden sich so viele Ikonen zeitgenössischer Architektur. Zaha Hadid realisierte hier mit dem Feuerwehrhaus 1993 ihr erstes Gebäude überhaupt, der amerikanische Architekt ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

ATC Against The Clock

3.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Lain Iwakura und Jeronimo Voss. Guests: Soland Angel, Aaron Benanav, Alberto Ricca *Bienoise, Peter Kradolfer *Wanja, Antonia S. Manhartsberger, Iulia-Andreea Smeu *Kite

Was tun mit unserer Zeit? Die Künstler*innen Lain Iwakura und Jeronimo Voss nehmen Erfahrungen ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Auf der Suche nach dem Paradiesvogel

9.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Die Suche nach dem Paradiesvogel führt uns auf eine Reise durchs Labyrinth der Natur. Wir treffen auf verschiedenste Vögel – farbenprächtige, schräge und unbekannte – und deren Lebensräume. Die rund 80 ausgestellten Vogelpräparate stammen aus der ganzen Welt. Denn neben ...

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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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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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Guided Tour

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

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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Guided Tour

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

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

9.00 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.

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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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Dan Flavin. Widmungen aus Licht

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

Der amerikanische Künstler Dan Flavin (1933–1996) war ein Pionier der Minimal Art. Bekannt wurde er für sein Schaffen mit industriell hergestellten Leuchtstoffröhren. Damit hat er eine neue Kunstform geschaffen und Geschichte geschrieben. Die Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Basel ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

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Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Egypt. 3,000 years of culture on the Nile

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

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Digital Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Freedom - dream, sing, dance, fly

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

There is often a desire to convey an emotion at the beginning of artistic creation. That is the basis of the "Inspiration" project, which has taken place annually at the Three Countries Museum since 2013. Persons with handicaps from Germany, France and Switzerland choose ...

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Guided Tour Children

Augusta Raurica

Führung für Familien im Römerhaus

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM, 2.30 PM - 3.30 PM

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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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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Garten und Architektur (DE)

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Auf dem Vitra Campus verbinden sich Architektur und  Landschaft zu einem einzigartigen Ensemble. Projekte von berühmten Architekten und Landschaftsdesignern, u.a. das Garden House von Tsuyoshi Tane, der Oudolf Garten von Piet Oudolf und das Tiny House »Diogene« von Renzo ...

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Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

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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

10.00 AM - 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.

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Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

IBERIANS

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The special exhibition, conceived in cooperation with the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, is dedicated to the culture and art of the Iberians. This civilisation comprised a group of peoples who stretched across the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula between the 6th and ...

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Exhibition

MUKS − Museum Kultur & Spiel Riehen

Immer ich?! Eine etwas andere Reise zu Dir

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Ein Blick in den Spiegel, dann landet ein tapsiger Finger auf der Nasenspitze: «Das bin ja ich!»

Kaum jemand mag sich an diesen Moment erinnern und doch beginnt hier ein grosses Abenteuer: Wer bin ich? Was möchte ich einmal werden? Wie denke ich über andere und sie ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Inventarium – Eine Dokumentation der Generalinventur im Historischen Museum Basel

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Klára Hosnedlová: "GROWTH"

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Exploring the legacies of socialist modernism through a melding of meticulous handcraft and a sci-fi aesthetic, Klára Hosnedlová (* 1990) presents an entirely new body of cast glass sculptures and sewn works in her first solo show in Switzerland and most extensive exhibition ...

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

La roue = c'est tout. Sammlungspräsentation

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Laut Tinguely ‘leben wir in einer Räderzivilisation’. So ist das Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine und die daraus resultierenden Abhängigkeiten, die Tinguely lustvoll dekonstruierte, auch heute noch prägend für unser Leben. Erstmals seit der Gründung des Museums wird die ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Leaps in Time

10.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)

Libby Heaney: Quantensuppe

12.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Libby Heaney ist eine bildende Künstlerin und promovierte Quantenphysikerin, die sich in ihren Werken mit den Auswirkungen von Technologien wie Quantencomputing oder maschinellem Lernen auf die Gesellschaft auseinandersetzt und dies kritisch wie spielerisch ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Made in Japan. Farbholzschnitte von Hiroshige, Kunisada und Hokusai

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

Motive aus japanischen Farbholzschnitten sind längst Teil der Pop- und Konsumkultur: Ansichten des Fuji, Impressionen des Kirschblütenfests und Porträts von sagenumwobenen Kriegern sind Teil unserer Bildwelt. Sie prägen unsere Vorstellungen von Japan. Von dieser Kunstrichtung ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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 der Kulturen Basel

Nacht – träumen oder wachen

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

In den nächtlichen Stunden machen wir vielfältige Erfahrungen zwischen Erholung und Erlebnis, Bedrohung und Verlockung, Alltag und Abenteuer. Die Ausstellung zeigt im Spiel von Licht und Dunkelheit, wie wir die Nacht verbringen, wovor wir uns fürchten und was sie dennoch so ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Nolan Oswald Dennis: «a recurse 4 [3] worlds»

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Nolan Oswald Dennis (* 1988 Sambia) zeigt erstmals ein ortsspezifisches, monumentales diagrammartiges Kunstwerk, welches sich über die gesamte Rückwand der Kunsthalle Basel erstreckt. Auf Gesprächen mit Physiker*innen, Geograph*innen und Schriftsteller*innen beruhend, benutzt ...

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Exhibition

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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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

Museum Tinguely

Otto Piene. Wege zum Paradies

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Otto Piene (1928−2014) verfolgte mit seiner Kunst hochgesteckte Ziele: Nicht nur erweiterte er seinen künstlerischen Schaffensbereich mit schwebender Sky Art und medialen Projektionen buchstäblich bis in den Himmel, auch sollten seine Werke einen Beitrag zu einer ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Skulpturhalle

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

10.00 AM - 2.00 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

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

9.00 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.

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Produktionsführung (DE)

1.30 PM - 2.30 PM

Bei einem geführten Rundgang durch die Produktionshalle von Frank Gehry erleben Sie beispielhaft einzelne Fertigungsschritte des Aluminium Chair. Der 1958 von Charles & Ray Eames entwickelte Stuhl gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Möbelentwürfe des 20. Jahrhunderts. Abgerundet ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Rausch – Extase – Rush

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

There is no life without intoxication. How can we deal with the phenomenon of intoxication? Embark on a journey of discovery.

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Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Rewilding

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Nun ist es endlich so weit: Das neue Kunsthaus Baselland, entworfen von Buchner Bründler Architekten, transformiert von einer ehemaligen Champagner-Lagerhalle in einen Ort für zeitgenössische Kunst, ist vollendet. Der Kunstverein Baselland findet damit nach 25 Jahren an ...

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Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

Ruinengeschichten digital: Augmented-Reality-Hörspiel in den Gewerbehäusern

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Mit der Augmented-Reality-App können Sie die ausserordentlich gut erhaltenen Gewerbehäuser an der römischen Fernstrasse auf neue Art erkunden: Mit einem AR-Hörspiel und einem interaktiven Rundgang. Tauchen Sie ein in das Alltagsleben vor 1700 Jahren und erleben Sie die ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Sammlung Kunstmuseum Basel

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

Das Kunstmuseum Basel zählt international zu den renommiertesten Museen seiner Art. Seine weltberühmte Sammlung, die Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, umfasst über 300‘000 Werke aus acht Jahrhunderten, vom späten Mittelalter bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Der Kernbestand, ...

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Exhibition Children

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

SEXY – TRIEBFEDER DES LEBENS

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Die Welt der Tiere ist farbenprächtig und formenreich. Für den Kampf um das Objekt der Begierde rüsten sie sich mit unterschiedlichen Waffen. Tierische Verhaltensweisen, Paarungsarten und Familienmodelle sind äusserst vielfältig. Warum? Weil es Geschlechter gibt.

Mit ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

9.00 AM - 4.00 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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Exhibition

Hafenmuseum

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

The call for freedom - 1848/49 and today

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Freedom affects everyone. In a large temporary exhibition, the Dreiländermuseum remembers the early Europe-wide freedom movement of 1848/49 and at the same time sensitizes people to the present and the future.
"Prosperity, education, freedom for all" - those demands were ...

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Exhibition

Basler Papiermühle

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

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

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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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

9.00 AM - 4.00 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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Exhibition Barrier-free

Vitra Design Museum

Transform! Design und die Zukunft der Energie

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Energie ist die zentrale Antriebskraft unserer Gesellschaft: Energie ist politisch, Energie ist unsichtbar, Energie ist allgegenwärtig. Sämtliche Bauten, Infrastrukturen und Produkte für die Gewinnung, Verteilung und Nutzung von Energie werden von Menschen gestaltet. In der ...

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The presentation »Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House« at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery is dedicated to the recently constructed Tane Garden House on the Vitra Campus. With a footprint of barely 15 square metres, the house combines a rooftop viewing platform for Campus visitors ...

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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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Virtueller Rundgang des Musikmuseums in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Visite guidée d’architecture (FR)

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

Cette visite, accompagnée d’explications sur l’histoire de la Site Vitra avec un accent particulier mis sur la Caserne de pompiers de Zaha Hadid, le pavillon de conférence de Tadao Ando et le Schaudepot de Herzog & de Meuron, donne une vue d’ensemble du Site Vitra. Le ...

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

What if

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Due to a change in our exhibition calendar as well as to accommodate the large interest in the show, the exhibition ‘What if’ will be extended until 5 May 2024.

Very few countries give their population such a far-reaching democratic right of co-determination in the ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Women in toy design (working title)

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Women have had a strong hand in the design of some of the most popular toys, ranging from classic dolls and plush toys to model building kits. The exhibition portrays remarkable women who were highly successful in the business with a focus on their creative work and struggle ...

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Guided Tour

Vitra Design Museum

Wunderkammer (DE)

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Die »Wunderkammer« zeigt eine Inszenierung von mehr als tausend Objekten aus der Sammlung von Rolf Fehlbaum, Vitra Chairman Emeritus. Wie ihre historischen Vorbilder vereint die Sammlungspräsentation der Wunderkammer auf dem Vitra Campus Kurioses und Kunstvolles aus der ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Zwölftausend Dinge – Anfänge der Sammlung Europa

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Zwischen 1900 und 1930 formierte sich im Museum eine Sammlung europäischer Ethnologie. Dinge des Alltags, des Glaubens und der Festlichkeiten wurden zusammengetragen. Verantwortlich dafür waren nicht nur grossbürgerliche Museumsmänner. Auch Abwarte, Hotelpersonal und Kinder ...

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