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Tsuyoshi Tane, a Japanese architect based in Paris, describes his working method as the ‘archaeology of the future’. This exhibition sheds light on his creative process by bringing together his collections of reference images, sketches, objects and models.

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Archeology of the Future

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Guided tour of architectural icons by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA.

2 pm, Vitra Schaudepot

Information about opening hours, guided tours and other matters related to the progressive reopening of the Vitra Campus and Vitra ...

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tours (EN)

12.30 PM - 2.30 PM, 1.30 PM - 3.30 PM

Eines der bedeutendsten Werke der Fondation Beyeler ist der Museumsbau von Renzo Piano. Die Geschichte seiner Entstehung – von der Idee Ernst Beyelers bis zur Eröffnung im Jahr 1997 – wird in der Architekturführung erzählt. Thematisiert werden ausserdem bautechnische ...

Fondation Beyeler

Architekturführung

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

The exhibition presents paintings, graphics and sculptures giving evidence of the time between 1933 and 1945. Around 100 works by prominent artists from Baden, including Hans Adolf Bühler, Adolf Strübe, Hermann Burte, Max Laeuger and August Babberger, are viewed in the ...

Dreiländermuseum

Art and Nazism

11.00 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 ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Arte popolare napoletana

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Augusta Raurica

Auf Postenjagd durch die Römerstadt

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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 ...

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

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

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

1.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Born in 1986 in Flemish Hasselt, Brecht Evens studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. Today, he lives and works in Paris. His international breakthrough as a comics artist came in 2009 with «The Wrong Place», for which he won the Haarlem Comic Festival’s Willy ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Brecht Evens. Night animals

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The guided tour focusses on the highlights from the Vitra Design Museum collection, including rare and singular pieces from designers such as Gerrit Rietveld, Alvar Aalto, Charles & Ray Eames or Ettore Sottsass, but also less well-known or anonymous designs, rarities, ...

Vitra Design Museum

Cancelled until further notice: Highlights from the Collection (Guided tour in German)

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM

Who were the children of Augusta Raurica? What kind of childhood did they have? Did they have toys? Did they go to school? Or did they, like the adults, have to work? During the town’s heyday, some 15,000 people lived in Augusta Raurica. One third were less than 15 years old! ...

Augusta Raurica

Children? Children! Searching for traces in Augusta Raurica

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The exhibition will remain closed until further notice due to the current protection regulations of the Federal Council.

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 ...

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Historischer Bikini von Hanro in der Ausstellung Bewahre! Was Menschen sammeln

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.

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart is turning 40!
To celebrate the anniversary, it is exhibiting a large collection of works, work groups and some new acquisitions from the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. On display will be various installations as well as ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Continuously Contemporary

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Blue fabric with a history

Denim is an essential part of many people’s basic wardrobe. Almost everyone owns at least one denim item. Today, however, denim is much more than just a fabric for clothing. One might think that denim and art have nothing to do with each ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Denim – stylish, practical, timeless

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Wie der Löwe, der sich in Henri Rousseaus Gemälde hungrig auf die Antilope wirft, verspüren auch wir in der Fondation Beyeler einen mächtigen Hunger – und zwar auf Kunst: Gerade in so schwierigen Zeiten wie diesen ist es schön, sich daran zu erinnern, wie aufregend und ...

Fondation Beyeler

Der Löwe hat Hunger - Sammlungspräsentation in der Fondation Beyeler

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Workshop

Vitra Design Museum

Der Rot-Blaue Stuhl - Wir bauen eine Ikone

10.30 AM - 5.30 PM

Der Niederländer Gerrit Rietveld entwarf schon vor 100 Jahren – lange vor der aktuellen Bewegung des «Open Design» – zahlreiche Möbel, die für jeden leicht nachbaubar sein sollten. Nach einer Einführung in Rietvelds Werk baut jeder Teilnehmer Rietvelds Rot-Blauen Stuhl im ...

Antike Plastiken in einer Gruppe vor einer Wand stehend

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.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

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Das Foto zeigt die Köpfe zweiter Theaterfiguren Die Figur links hat grosse rote Augen eine Knollennase und einen grossen Mund Die Figur rechts hat eine spitzige Nase ebenfalls rote Augen und ein Haarbüschel steht gerade auf dem Kopf

Das Museum der Kulturen Basel ist immer virtuell offen. Von unserer speziellen Webseite aus gelangen Sie jederzeit ins Museum. Sie nehmen an Führungen teil, lernen die Lieblingsobjekte der Mitarbeitenden kennen, erfahren, an was wir arbeiten und können Bastelanleitungen oder ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Digital: Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Einblick in den Chor der Barfüsserkirche in der virtuellen Tour in 3D

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Digital: Virtueller Rundgang der Barfüsserkirche in 3D

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Einblick in die Kutschendurchfahrt in der virtuellen Tour in 3D

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Digital: Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Blick in den 3D-Rundgang der Ausstellung Übermensch Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Digital: virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Our earth is a unique planet. Life originated on it. Over thousands of years, humankind existed without leaving a profound mark on the environment. In the meantime, our constantly growing need for space and natural resources is putting pressure on ecosystems around the world. ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

EARTH AT ITS LIMITS

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

You see the face and upper body of a golden Buddha with turquoise jewellery

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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

10.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

In the four years since Josef Helfenstein took the helm as director of the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2016, we have recorded almost a thousand accessions to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, the public art collection of Basel. Presenting a selection from these riches, the ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Four Years. Gifts and Acquisitions

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Während den öffentlichen Führungen gewinnen Sie während einer Stunde einen tieferen Einblick in die aktuelle Ausstellung.

Preis: Eintritt + CHF 7.–
Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt. Tickets können 14 Tage im Voraus online oder gleichentags an der Museumskasse ...

Fondation Beyeler

Führung

12.00 PM - 1.00 PM

Ash urns and documents on the history of cremation, hearses, coffins, cemetery regulations, grave crosses, glass bead wreaths and memento mori.

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

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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, ...

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Typology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items

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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 ...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

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A fierce stroke of the brush that means the world? — Par for the course in the painting of Art Informel. Blending inspirations from Paris and New York, this variety of expressive abstraction caught on in Switzerland in the 1950s and developed into a richly diverse genre over ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Grand Gestures. Four Decades of Swiss Abstraction

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Die Jahre der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft in Deutschland prägten das Leben in der Region Basel massgeblich. Die Ausstellung rückt die grenzüberschreitenden Beziehungen ins Zentrum und thematisiert das Verhältnis von Baslerinnen und Baslern, Schweizer Behörden und ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Grenzfälle – Basel 1933–1945

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Every Saturday, Sunday and on public holidays at 11:30 am at the Vitra Design Museum

Our homes are an expression of the way we live, they shape our everyday routines and fundamentally affect our well-being. With the major exhibition »Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 ...

Vitra Design Museum

Guided tour «Home Stories. 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors» (in German)

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

In 2013, the results of the research on National Socialism were presented in the core town of Lörrach. Now historian Robert Neisen is shedding light on the National Socialist dictatorship in the then still independent Lörrach districts of Brombach, Haagen and Hauingen. ...

Dreiländermuseum

Hailed and feared - The NS dictatorship in the villages of Brombach, Haagen and Hauingen

11.00 AM - 6.00 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.

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

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 ...

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

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Ausstellungsraum im Schweizerischen Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

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

Schweizerisches Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

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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.

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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 ...

Vitra Design Museum

Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors

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More than a hundred years, from around 1864 until 1971 the Impasse Ronsin in Paris was home to a warren of studios used by wide variety of artists with very different backgrounds and approaches. This curious cul-de-sac hidden away in Montparnasse served as home and atelier to ...

Museum Tinguely

Impasse Ronsin. Murder, Love, and Art in the Heart of Paris

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates a focused exhibition to the oeuvre of Isa Genzken that turns the spotlight on the outstanding early work she created in the first decade of her career.

Kunstmuseum Basel

Isa Genzken. Works from 1973 to 1983

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Judith Kakon (* 1988, Basel) takes the symbol ¤ as the title for her artwork, sited on Kunsthalle Basel’s back wall. It is a sign that denotes an unspecified currency, first encoded for computers in 1972. The artist places it, along with various terms of the global realty ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Judith Kakon: «¤»

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

With her works, the Berlin-based multimedia artist Katja Aufleger (born 1983 in Oldenburg) seeks the simultaneity of possibilities to pose existential questions – sculptural and filmic, visual and auditory. The seductive aesthetic of her works surprises with unexpected, ...

Museum Tinguely

Katja Aufleger. GONE

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Zeitsprünge - Basler Geschichte in Kürze

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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Leaps in Time

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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

A ransom, an illicit border crossing, an exchange of nationality: Transactions of different sorts are often the conceptual starting point for Lydia Ourahmane’s (*1992) art. The results encompass video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation, exploring the way ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Lydia Ourahmane: «Barzakh»

11.00 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Glaubenswelten des Mittelalters Altarkreuz

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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Medieval Worlds of Faith

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The picture shows a detail of the lintels You can see a relief with a snake on it

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.

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The exhibition presents the single-family house as a cultural-historical and architectural phenomenon of post-war modernism in the Basel area.

Museum Kleines Klingental

Modern Living. Detached houses in Basel and surroundings 1945-1975

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Eine wissenschaftliche Illustration von einem Gehirn

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

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Free admission during the opening weekend from Friday January 15 to Sunday January 17, 2021, instead of an opening event.

Kunsthalle Basel

Opening weekend of the exhibition «Barzakh» by Lydia Ourahmane

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

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Little Christmas Show

This year’s small special show will focus on Christmas tree decorations that were made for the time of the two world wars. Christmas in wartime had a special meaning. Most family fathers and sons were at the front. Christmas trees were sent to ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Patriotic Christmas Decorations

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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 ...

Museum Tinguely

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Gipsplastiken gruppiert vor einer roten Wand

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.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

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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.

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

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», ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The exhibition honors the renowned Berne-based auctioneer and collector Eberhard W. Kornfeld, who will give thirty-one etchings by Rembrandt to the museum. The works are shown together with another set of Rembrandts he donated to the museum in 2005.

Kunstmuseum Basel

REMBRANDT'S ETCHINGS. THE EBERHARD W. KORNFELD DONATIONS

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Dutch were cosmopolitans even in the seventeenth century: the exhibition conveys the fascination that the Orient—seen through the prisms of works of art, objects of utility, and individuals—held for Rembrandt and his contemporaries.

Kunstmuseum Basel

Rembrandt’s Orient. West Meets East in Dutch Art of the 17th Century

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Erstmals in einer Museumsausstellung trifft im Dialog zwischen Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) und Hans Arp (1886–1966) das bahnbrechende Schaffen des grossen Erneuerers der Bildhauerei des späten 19. Jahrhunderts auf das einflussreiche Werk eines Protagonisten der abstrakten ...

Fondation Beyeler

Rodin/Arp

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 Idealisierendes Gemälde von Joseph Karl Stieler circa 1820

The name of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a byword for classical music in the 19th century. That being so, the fact that his compositions feature widely in mechanical musical instruments comes as no surprise. Over 150 rolls of the composer’s music were recorded by such ...

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Roll over Beethoven - Automaton music for the composer’s 250th birthday

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

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Diesen Herbst präsentiert die Fondation Beyeler das Werk You are the Weather (1994-96) der amerikanischen Künstlerin Roni Horn (*1955). In den 100 Porträts einer jungen Frau begegnet man immer wieder dem gleichen Gesicht im Wasser einer isländischen Thermalquelle. Seit 1975 ...

Fondation Beyeler

Roni Horn «You are the Weather» - Fokus-Ausstellung

10.00 AM - 6.00 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. ...

Museum.BL

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

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.

Verkehrsdrehscheibe Schweiz und unser Weg zum Meer

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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.

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

We often hear that Swiss and Germans are similar. But there are also subtle differences, about which we can reflect and laugh. It is well known that the self-image differs from that of foreigners. This is the favourite source for many caricatures. The Cultural Affairs ...

Dreiländermuseum

The dear neighbours - cartoons from Germany and Switzerland

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Basler Papiermühle

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

1.00 PM - 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.

Augusta Raurica

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

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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 ...

Museum Tinguely

The Luminator at the Euroairport

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

11.00 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.

Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

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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 ...

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Wir laden Sie ein, TINGUELY@HOME zu entdecken, denn wir arbeiten nicht erst seit heute an hochwertigen digitalen Angeboten, die das Museumserlebnis erweitern und ergänzen.

Alle unsere TINGUELY@HOME Angebote finden Sie kompakt auf unserer Website ...

Museum Tinguely

TINGUELY@HOME

12.00 AM - 11.59 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 ...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

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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 ...

Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: Gae Aulenti: A Creative Universe

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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 ...

Vitra Design Museum

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

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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Among the great treasures of porcelain art are the animal-shaped tureens and deceptively real-looking plates of olives or lettuce made by the Strasbourg manufactories. This new show will present these exquisite pieces in the larger context of the dining culture of that era.

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Wild Boar and Lettuce

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM