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Exhibition
Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche and his Afterlife

Today: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

16 October 2019 - 23 February 2020

«God is dead!» Thus spake Nietzsche as early as 1882, whereupon he had to grapple with the questions to which his prophetic declaration gave rise, specifically that of a new morality and how life might still be made meaningful even without religion. Nietzsche’s controversial ideas are more topical than ever at a time when 45 per cent of all residents of Canton Basel-Stadt have no religious affiliations at all.

This exhibition in honour of the 175th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of his appointment to the Chair of Classical Philology at Basel University will offer visitors an insight into the turbulent life and ground-breaking ideas of the most influential and most radical philosopher of modernity. The repercussions of his thinking on philosophy, science and pop culture can be felt to this day, as this exhibition will demonstrate.


Museum
Barfüsserkirche Aussenansicht

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

OpenClosed | 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Barfüsserplatz 7,  4051  Basel

Foto: Andreas Niemz

Opening Hours

Mo Closed  |  Tu 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM  |  We 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM  |  Th 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM  |  Fr 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM  |  Sa 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM  |  Su 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Easter 2024

29 March 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

30 March 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

31 March 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

01 April 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM


May Day 2024

01 May 2024: Closed


Ascension Day 2024

09 May 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM


Whitsun 2024

19 May 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

20 May 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM


Swiss National Holiday 2024

01 August 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM


Christmas/New Year 2024/2025

24 December 2024: Closed

25 December 2024: Closed

26 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

27 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

28 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

29 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

30 December 2024: Closed

31 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

01 January 2025: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM


Institution

The Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and artefacts of relevance to our cultural heritage for future generations, tells visitors the story of Basel, and is a place for discourse and engagement with both present and future.

 

The Basel Historical Museum, housed in the Barfüsserkirche since 1894, shows selected aspects of the history of Basel from prehistoric times to the present. The focus of the exhibits from the pre-Reformation period is on sacred works of art such as the Basel Dance of Death and Basel Cathedral Treasury. The exhibition in the basement, headed “Understanding the World”, comprises a magnificent array of medieval tapestries with their fantasy worlds and scenes of real life, the Renaissance and Baroque collections, now grouped together in one “Great Cabinet of Curiosities”, and Basel’s rich archaeological heritage. Among the other highlights are the coin cabinet and the Burgundian Booty.

 

 

 

Admission

CHF 15.- / CHF 8.-*

Combi-ticket: CHF 20.- / CHF 10.-* (for Barfüsserkirche, Musikmuseum, Haus zum Kirschgarten)
*For young people under 18 and up to 30 if still in education or training.

Group rate (from 10 people): CHF 12.-

Free admission for children aged up to 13

Happy Day: 1st Sunday of the month free admission (except special exhibitions)
Happy Hour: Free admission for the last hour of the day (except Sundays, holidays and special exhibitions)

Special exhibitions are subject to special rates and conditions.

colourkey Free admission

Museums-PASS-Musées Free admission

Swiss Museum Pass Free admission

Access

tram 3/6/8/11/14/15/16/17 > Barfüsserplatz,
tram 6/10/16/17 > Theater

Accessibility

partly accessible
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