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Guided Tour

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Special

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Abgesagt: Animaloculomat – Sehen Sie sich, wie ein Tier Sie sieht

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Wollten Sie schon immer wissen, wie Sie von einem Tier gesehen werden? Nun können Sie es herausfinden: Der Animaloculomat ist ein ganz spezieller Fotoautomat – eine ‚Tierblickmaschine‘ sozusagen. Begeben Sie sich in die Kabine, passen Sie die Höhe des Drehhockers an und legen ...

Das Foto zeigt eine fertig gebastelte Gazelle Sie hat einen röhrenförmigen Körper Schnurbeine mit Perlen an den Enden einen spitzzulaufenden Kopf mit Augen und Ohren und zwei gestreiften Hörnern Sie ist gelb mit glitzernden Pailletten verziert

Workshop

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Abgesagt: Die goldene Gazelle und andere Tiermarionetten

1.00 PM - 5.00 PM

In der indischen Geschichte «Ramayana» geht Prinz Rama auf die Jagd nach einer wunderschönen goldenen Gazelle. In der Ausstellung «Bima, Kasper und Dämon» können sie Kinder diese entdecken. Im Atelier gestalten sie dann eine Gazellenmarionette oder eine andere tierische ...

Guided Tour

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

Abgesagt: Einhorn, Nashorn und Viagra. Aphrodisiaka in der Sammlung des Basler Pharmaziemuseums

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Luststeigernde Mittel gab es zu allen Zeiten rund um die Welt. Vielen eilt ein sagenhafter Ruhm voraus, der sich beim nüchternen Betrachten in den seltensten Fällen bewahrheitet. Kommen Sie mit auf eine sinnbetörende Tour durch die umfangreiche Sammlung «für das eheliche Werk».

Guided Tour Children

Fondation Beyeler

Abgesagt: Familienführung

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung für Kinder im Alter von 6 bis 10 Jahren in Begleitung.

Familien verfolgen gespannt die Führung durchs Römerhaus

Guided Tour Children

Augusta Raurica

ABGESAGT - Führung für Familien

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM, 2.30 PM - 3.30 PM

Workshop Children

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Abgesagt: In der Werkstatt des Osterhasen. Gemeinsam kreieren wir kleine Oster-Kunstwerke und holen uns dafür Ideen am grossen Ausstellungsstrauss!

11.15 AM - 1.15 PM

Wir bereiten uns auf die bevorstehende Osterausstellung und das Osterfest vor und kreieren Ostereier-Kunstwerke.

Bitte bringen Sie eigene ausgeblasenen Eier mit.
Workshop für Kinder ab 4 Jahren mit Begleitpersonen

Special

Kunstmuseum Basel

Abgesagt: Offenes Atelier für jedes Alter

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Mit Pamela Jossi, Werkstatt für Kunstglaserei und Glasmalereirestaurierung

Guided Tour

Kunsthaus Baselland

Abgesagt: Pflanzen-Bilder und Bilder-Pflanzen. Auf Spurensuche. Eine andere Führung durch die Merian Gärten

11.30 AM - 12.30 PM

Pflanzen, namentlich Blumen, spielen in der Kunst seit der Antike eine bedeutende Rolle. Sie können als abstrahierte Ornamentformen auftreten. Im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit haben sie gelegentlich noch einen Bedeutungszuwachs. So symbolisiert etwa die Lilie Reinheit ...

Guided Tour

Museum.BL

ABGESAGT: Webstuhl-Vorführung

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Das Foto zeigt eine rote Figur die einen Gott in Form eines Elefanten darstellt

Guided Tour

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Abgesagt: Wissensdrang trifft Sammelwut

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Museen sind gefordert: Was gestern für eine ethnografische Sammlung noch unverzichtbar schien – wie etwa eine Schädelsammlung –, gilt heute als problematisch. Die Führung in der Ausstellung «Wissensdrang trifft Sammelwut» erforscht die Motive dieser Sammelwut und stellt ...

Guided Tour

Kunstmuseum Basel

Abgesagt: Zeichnungen und Glasgemälde von Holbein bis Ringler

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Exhibition

Kunst Raum Riehen

All the time that came before this moment

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

David Horvitz, Jenny Rova, Bojan Šarčević
Kuratiert von Katharina Dunst und Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth

Die Ausstellung nimmt sich der Zeit als Tatsache an und versucht, das universelle Phänomen anhand unterschiedlicher Arbeiten greifbar zu machen. Wie lässt sich ...

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 ...

Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Amuse-bouche. Der Geschmack der Kunst

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Schmeckt Kunst süss, sauer, bitter, salzig oder gar umami? Welche Rolle spielt unser Geschmacksinn im sozialen Miteinander und als künstlerisches Material? Das Museum Tinguely setzt die Reihe zu den menschlichen Sinnen in den Künsten fort und zeigt in einer Gruppenausstellung ...

Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

An exhibition by Nick Mauss: «Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.»

Closed

Artist Nick Mauss (* 1980) has repeatedly turned exhibition-making—the assembly of precisely staged relations—into an art form. He especially conceives the scenography for this show, which brings together and reframes works by contemporary and historical figures, emphasizing ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Antoni Clavé / James Coignard. Focus Im Obersteg Collection

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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 ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

A Passion for Paintings. Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt: Collecting for Basel

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In autumn 2019, the Kunstmuseum commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt (1845-1920) by honouring his most important patron at the beginning of the 20th century. For the first time in a long time, large parts of the collection of 305 ...

Exhibition

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Archeology of the Future

Closed

Due to the recent increase in Coronavirus cases, our museum is closed until further notice. This is in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the Swiss Federal Council and the Government of Canton Basel-City on 13 March 2020.
The exhibition «Tsuyoshi Tane: ...

Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Arte popolare napoletana

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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 ...

Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

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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 ...

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

Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

11.00 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 ...

Das Foto zeigt eine Maske mit riesigen Augen und einem offenen Mund Sie ist in den Farben Rot Schwarz und Beige gehalten Seitlich ragen Federn aus dem Gesicht heraus

Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions

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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 ...

Das Foto zeigt zwei fast menschengrosse Stabpuppen Vorne steht der Affenkönig mit gelber Maske rotem Tusch, gelbem Hemd und Raubtierhose Dahinter steht der Beamte im roten Gewand

Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Bima, Mr Punch, and Demon

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We are all familiar with the theatre. A very common and popular form is the puppet theatre in various forms. The exhibition presents stick puppets, shadow play figures, glove puppets, and marionettes from across Asia and Europe. The narratives in which they feature are ...

Guided Tour

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

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 ...

Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

Cancelled until further notice: Guided Tour

12.00 PM - 1.00 PM

The one-hour-long guided tours provide an insight into the current exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. They are conducted daily by our experienced and knowledgeable art mediators.

Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

Children? Children! Searching for traces in Augusta Raurica

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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! ...

Exhibition

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Christoph Fischer: The world put on paper

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Artist Christoph Fischer, born in 1976 in Lucerne, attended the Lucerne University of Teacher Education and subsequently the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Since 2002, he has worked as a freelance artist and illustrator, e.g. for the publications «NZZ», «WOZ» and ...

Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Christoph Oertli. Sensing Bodies

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Seit den 1990er-Jahren prägt der aktuell wieder in Basel wohnhafte Künstler Christoph Oertli (*1962 in Winterthur) mit seinen Performances und vor allem Videoarbeiten das (Schweizer) Kunstgeschehen. Zentral in den Videoarbeiten Oertlis steht der Mensch in seinem Umfeld und ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality

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What does the progressive economization of all areas of life mean for our individual and collective life? What ethical, social and global political consequences does it have? Various artists pursue these and other questions.

Guided Tour

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Curator-guided tour

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

In the guided tour with Anette Gehrig, the oeuvre of this artist, who was awarded a German-Speaking Swiss Cities’ Comics Scholarship in 2019, is presented in its full breadth — from comics reportage and paintings, through to large-format drawings based on dreams that he ...

Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Deana Lawson: «Merkabah»

Closed

Creating meticulously staged yet profoundly intimate images of the sartorial styles, quotidian habits, and domestic interiors of the African diaspora in her native US or in Brazil and beyond, Deana Lawson’s (*1979) photographs are unforgettable portraits of contemporary Black life.

Antike Plastiken in einer Gruppe vor einer Wand stehend

Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

Closed

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.

Guided Tour

Schaulager

Dieter Roth, Selbstturm; Löwenturm (1969-1998)

2.30 PM - 3.00 PM, 3.15 PM - 3.45 PM

The tours are held on Sundays at 2.30 p.m. once a month. Where there is sufficient demand, an additional tour will be held at 3.15 p.m.

The tour lasts 30 minutes and is free of charge. However, we would kindly ask you to register. Owing to limited space, the tours ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

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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 ...

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 ...

Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Edward Hopper

Closed

The Fondation Beyeler’s 2020 spring exhibition will show works by Edward Hopper (1882–1967), one of the 20th century’s most important American painters. Hopper was born in Nyack, New York. After training as an illustrator, he studied painting at the New York School of Art ...

Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

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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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

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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 ...

Artischockenhalbkugel von Angela M Flaig in der Sonderausstellung Von allen Seiten

Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

From all sides: Sculptures and objects

Closed

Exhibition of the Verein Bildende Kunst Lörrach (VBK)

Three-dimensional creative work is always also a matter of conquering space. Five artists show very different ways of working into space from all sides. In the exhibition, original forms contrast with delicate ...

Eine wissenschaftliche Illustration von einem Gehirn

Guided Tour

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Führung

Closed

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.

Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Typology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items

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Many objects are not designed by professional designers, but have evolved across the centuries. In 2016 four French product designers – Guillaume Bloget, Raphael Daufresne, Thélonious Goupil, and Guillaume Jandin – began to explore the history of product archetypes, ...

Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

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Woran glaubt die Jugend? Welche Rolle spielt die Religion für Zwölf- und Dreizehnjährige, die in Basel in gläubigen, atheistischen und interkulturellen Familien aufwachsen? «Glaubensdinge» erkundete mit einer Schulklasse die Religionsvielfalt als Chance und als ...

Guided Tour

Kunsthalle Basel

Guided Tour

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Each Sunday at 3 pm, you are warmly welcome to our public guided tour, which is included in the admission. Members of the Kunsthalle Basel team guide you through the exhibition and provide insights on its content.

On selected dates, the tours are held in English and ...

Guided Tour

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)

Guided tour on Sundays

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Every Sunday we offer a free guided tour through the current exhibition.

The guided tours are in German, however, please contact us if you are English speaking and we might be able to organise a tour in both languages.

The tour starts at 3pm, registration is ...

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.

Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

Closed

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 ...

Ausstellungsraum im Schweizerischen Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

Exhibition

Schweizerisches Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

Exhibition

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

Closed

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.

Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors

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Our homes are an expression of the way we live, they shape our everyday routines and fundamentally affect our well-being. From February 2020, the Vitra Design Museum will present a major exhibition tracing the evolution of the contemporary private interior. Beginning with ...

Exhibition

Museum.BL

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».

Zeitsprünge - Basler Geschichte in Kürze

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 ...

Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Lena Eriksson

Closed

Lena Eriksson (*1971 in Visp, lebt in Basel) findet ihre Themen im Alltag, den sie auf ihre ganz eigene Weise zu beobachten versteht. Sie pflegt die Kunst des freundschaftlichen Austauschs und der Gastlichkeit, beschäftigt sich mit der spezifischen Wahrnehmung auf Reisen oder ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

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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 ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Luminous Figures. Drawings and Stained Glass Paintings from Holbein to Ringler

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In the sixteenth century, small-format stained glass paintings graced the windows of many a guild room and council hall. The exhibition organised by the Department of Prints and Drawings showcases numerous preliminary drawings as well as finished glass paintings.

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

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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 ...

Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Marlene McCarty. Into the Weeds

Closed

Marlene McCarty (*1957, USA/CH) ist in Basel keine Unbekannte. Von 1978 bis 1983 studierte sie an der Allgemeinen Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel. Nach ihrem Umzug 1983 nach New York arbeitete sie u.a. als stellvertretende Leiterin der MoMA-Abteilung für Grafikdesign. Frühwurde ...

Glaubenswelten des Mittelalters Altarkreuz

Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Medieval Worlds of Faith

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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 ...

Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

Closed

Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

Closed

The brain processes sensory impressions and information. Did you know that exercise and sport have a positive effect on the brain?

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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

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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 ...

Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

Closed

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

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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 ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Picasso, Chagall, Jawlensky. Masterworks of the Im Obersteg Collection

Closed

Showing treasures of classic modernism from an eminent private collection in Basel in dialogue with works from our own holdings, the exhibition sheds light on the history of the collection and Karl Im Obersteg’s longstanding ties to the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Gipsplastiken gruppiert vor einer roten Wand

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.

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.

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.

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», ...

Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

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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 ...

Workshop

Augusta Raurica

Römische Spiele für Gross und Klein

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Smartphones und Spielkonsolen bleiben in der Tasche. Der römische Junge Nobilianus lädt euch ein, seine Spielkisten zu entdecken: Strategie-, Glücks- und Geschicklichkeitsspiele warten auf Euch!

Man darf jederzeit dazu stossen
Alter: keine ...

Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Silent Vision – Images of Calm and Quiet at the Fondation Beyeler

Closed

The Fondation Beyeler’s current collection display focuses on works of modern and contemporary art dealing with the topic of calm and quiet.The collection display presents key works of the Fondation Beyeler spanning the period from Impressionism to contemporary art, by Claude ...

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. ...

Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Solo Position: Stefan Karrer

Closed

Müde blickende Wassertropfen, Forumsdiskussionen über Aussprache und Bedeutung des fotografischen Begriffs Bokeh und zwei maltesische Höhlen, die um einen homerischen Mythos konkurrieren sind Ausgangspunkte der im Kunsthaus gezeigten neuen Videoinstallation von Stefan Karrer ...

Exhibition

Verkehrsdrehscheibe Schweiz und unser Weg zum Meer

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.

Exhibition

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)

Swiss Media Art: Pax Art Awards 2019

Closed

With the awards in the field of digital art, the Art Foundation Pax, and its partner the HeK, honours and promotes the media-specific practices of Swiss artists whose works employ media technologies or reflect on their effects. This exhibition presents knowbotiq, Alan Bogana ...

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

Guided Tour

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

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

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.

Exhibition

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 ...

Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

The Basel Quran

Closed

The manuscript penned in Egypt or Syria in 1242 was brought to the Council of Basel from Constantinople in 1437. It later served the Zurich theologian Theodor Bibliander (1509–1564) as a source text for his Latin translation of the Quran, which was printed in Basel by Hans ...

Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

The Greeks and their World. Identity and Ideal

Closed

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.

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 ...

Exhibition

Augusta Raurica

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

Closed

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.

Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

The Luminator at the Euroairport

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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 ...

Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

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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 ...

Exhibition

Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

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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.

Exhibition

Museum.BL

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

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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 ...

Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Thirst for Knowledge meets Collecting Mania

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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 ...

Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

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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 ...

Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: Gae Aulenti: A Creative Universe

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Gae Aulenti is one of the most influential architects and designers of the post-war period. As early as the 1960s, her iconic creations – such as her «Locus Solus»« series (1964), the «Pipistrello» (1965) and «King Sun» (1967) lamps – played a vital role in Italy’s global ...

Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: The Vitra Design Museum Collection - 1800 to the Present

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Workshop

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Workshop “Bags – Icons & investments”

1.30 PM - 5.30 PM

Unpack your creativity.

A bag like no other

Everyone has a bag. Women maybe a few more than men. Children maybe smaller ones than adults. But who owns a bag that nobody else has? Probably very few people. That could change very quickly now.

As part ...

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Today 05 April 2020

Abgesagt: Animaloculomat – Sehen Sie sich, wie ein Tier Sie sieht

Abgesagt: Die goldene Gazelle und andere Tiermarionetten

Abgesagt: Einhorn, Nashorn und Viagra. Aphrodisiaka in der Sammlung des Basler Pharmaziemuseums

Abgesagt: Familienführung

ABGESAGT - Führung für Familien

Abgesagt: In der Werkstatt des Osterhasen. Gemeinsam kreieren wir kleine Oster-Kunstwerke und holen uns dafür Ideen am grossen Ausstellungsstrauss!

Abgesagt: Offenes Atelier für jedes Alter

Abgesagt: Pflanzen-Bilder und Bilder-Pflanzen. Auf Spurensuche. Eine andere Führung durch die Merian Gärten

ABGESAGT: Webstuhl-Vorführung

Abgesagt: Wissensdrang trifft Sammelwut

Abgesagt: Zeichnungen und Glasgemälde von Holbein bis Ringler

All the time that came before this moment

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

Amuse-bouche. Der Geschmack der Kunst

An exhibition by Nick Mauss: «Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.»

Antoni Clavé / James Coignard. Focus Im Obersteg Collection

A Passion for Paintings. Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt: Collecting for Basel

Archeology of the Future

Arte popolare napoletana

Augusta Raurica animal park

Basel Carnival

Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions

Bima, Mr Punch, and Demon

Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)

Cancelled until further notice: Guided Tour

Children? Children! Searching for traces in Augusta Raurica

Christoph Fischer: The world put on paper

Christoph Oertli. Sensing Bodies

Circular Flow. On the Economy of Inequality

Curator-guided tour

Deana Lawson: «Merkabah»

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

Dieter Roth, Selbstturm; Löwenturm (1969-1998)

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

Edward Hopper

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

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

From all sides: Sculptures and objects

Führung

Funeral Artefacts

Gallery: Typology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

Guided Tour

Guided tour on Sundays

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

Historical Preparations

History of Fire-fighting

History of Pharmacy

Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors

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

Leaps in Time

Lena Eriksson

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

Luminous Figures. Drawings and Stained Glass Paintings from Holbein to Ringler

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

Marlene McCarty. Into the Weeds

Medieval Worlds of Faith

Mengele-Dance of Death

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

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

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

Original Dissections

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

Picasso, Chagall, Jawlensky. Masterworks of the Im Obersteg Collection

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

Römische Spiele für Gross und Klein

Silent Vision – Images of Calm and Quiet at the Fondation Beyeler

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

Solo Position: Stefan Karrer

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

Swiss Media Art: Pax Art Awards 2019

Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers