Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

About harmony and ecstasy. Music in the ancient civilizations

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Music played a central role in many ancient cultures. It could be heard in all areas of life. The exhibition «About Harmony and Ecstasy» explores the diverse uses of music in Antiquity while also focusing on its inherent dichotomy. While Apollo, the patron of music and the ...

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Exhibition

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

An exhibition by the Architecture Museum of the TU Munich adapted and expanded by S AM together with the Institute of Architecture FHNW.

For decades, the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo has seen investments in architectural infrastructures that help alleviate its ...

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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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Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Annual exterior project Kunsthaus Baselland 2021: Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

For the eighth time, the Kunsthaus is devoting the large outdoor banner to a work of art to be on view for twelve months. After Bianca Pedrina (2014), Kilian Rüthemann (2015), Matthias Huber (2016), Daniel Göttin (2017), Vittorio Brodmann (2018), Gina Folly (2019) and Lena ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Art and Nazism

Closed

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 ...

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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

Museum Tinguely

Art Leu Family. Caresser la peau du ciel

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The Leu family is well-known among tattoo fans worldwide. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Felix and Loretta Leu used their tattooing skills to fund extensive travels with their four children Ama, Aia, Filip and Ajja. These years on the road were nourished by artistic curiosity ...

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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

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Bruce Conner. Light out of Darkness

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

(Danse Macabre No. VI)

Bruce Conner (1933–2008) is as legendary for his critical attitude to the art world as he is for his role as the father of the video clip. His work in many media is political and subversive, with an immediate sensuality that goes straight under ...

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Exhibition

Basler Papiermühle

CarakterTypen. Basel und die Typografie von 1920 bis heute

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

In keinem anderen Jahrhundert seit der Erfindung des Buchdrucks gab es in Druckereien so fundamentale Umwälzungen wie im 20. Jahrhundert. Und mit der Technik wandelte sich auch die grafische Gestaltung – nicht weniger radikal! Die alten, von der Materialität des Bleisatzes ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 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

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Die Skulpturhalle Basel besitzt mehr als 100 Abgüsse von griechischen Bildnissen. In der neuen Dauerausstellung präsentiert sie diese erstmals in einer zugänglichen und aufschlussreichen Neupräsentation.

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Special

Museum Tinguely

Digital: TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

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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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Dorian Sari. Post-Truth

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

With his video installations and sculptural works Dorian Sari wants to encourage visitors to question and debate current social and political issues. As part of the exhibition, Sari will invite the author Carolin Emcke to a public discussion. Emcke regularly speaks and ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

Closed

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

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

EARTH AT ITS LIMITS

10.00 AM - 5.00 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. ...

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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

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

From meditation retreats to living rooms to garden ponds – Buddhas are everywhere! What do we find so fascinating about this figure? What forms do Buddhist teachings and practices embrace? The exhibition follows up these and other questions and sheds light on Buddhism in all ...

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

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

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

Closed

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

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance

Closed

The Memphis group was one of the most unusual phenomena to appear in the world of design in recent decades. It emerged in the winter of 1980/81, when a group of young designers eager to break away from the dogmas of functionalism and industrial design formed around the ...

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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

German Design 1949–1989: Two Countries, One History

Closed

An exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum, the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Wüstenrot Stiftung.

Driven by the Bauhaus and Werkbund movements, German Design gained wide recognition in the early twentieth century. After 1949, its ...

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Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Grand Gestures. Four Decades of Swiss Abstraction

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

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 ...

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Grenzfälle – Basel 1933–1945

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

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Guided Tour

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Grenzfälle – Basel 1933–1945. Basel in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus

12.30 PM - 1.30 PM

Die nationalsozialistische Herrschaft in Deutschland und der Zweite Weltkrieg prägten das Leben in der Grenzregion Basel von 1933 bis 1945 massgeblich. Die Ausstellung rückt die grenzüberschreitenden Beziehungen ins Zentrum und thematisiert das Verhältnis von Baslerinnen und ...

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Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

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

Closed

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. ...

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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

Schweizerisches 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 - 4.00 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

Museum Tinguely

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

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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 ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Joachim Bandau: «Die Nichtschönen: Works, 1967–1974»

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

At once technoid and bodily, minimal and monstrous, often with spouts or hoses that resemble weirdly organic orifices and tentacles, the early sculptural works by Joachim Bandau (*1936) remain as strange and singular today as when he first made them. An overview of the ...

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Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Judith Kakon: «¤»

11.00 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 ...

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Special Children

Museum Tinguely

Kinderclub

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Each week we explore a new exhibit in the museum. We then proceed to build, design and experiment in the studio, either alone or in groups.

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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

Museum Tinguely

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

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

DIY art, limelight, broken glass – in Jean Tinguely’s multi-facetted oeuvre one encounters everything from machine performances to multisensory spectacles to critiques of consumer culture. Works and documents show his early successes, theatre projects and correspondence. ...

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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

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

Kunsthalle Basel

Lydia Ourahmane: «Barzakh»

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Making the World. Lived Worlds

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Museum der Kulturen Basel and the Kunstmuseum Basel jointly explore the theme “the human making of the world”. Exhibits from both museums enter into a dialogue with each other, with the Museum der Kulturen Basel focusing on how humans and their environment are intertwined.

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Workshop

Kunsthalle Basel

Mal•Mal – Draw from a Live Model in the Current Exhibitions

6.00 PM - 8.00 PM

Do you feel like drawing? Kunsthalle Basel invites all passionate artists and art enthusiasts—beginner, professional, or anywhere in between—to grab paper and pencil and discover new shapes and lines in the current exhibitions.

A model will interact with the interior ...

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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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Special Children

Museum.BL

Mein Museum: Wilde Frühlingskräuter

2.00 PM - 4.30 PM

Wie schmeckt die Natur im Monat Mai? Ihr sammelt Frühlingskräuter und mischt daraus einen Quark – mit knusprigem Brot schmeckt der einfach köstlich. Biologin Anne Brennwald nimmt euch mit zu den essbaren einheimischen Wildpflanzen.

Für Kinder im ...

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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 Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Moving World – Steiff surprises and fascinates

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

True gems produced by the renowned and world-famous family-owned company, Margarete Steiff GmbH, Giengen (Germany), are now on display at the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel. Who does not remember the moving shop window scenes during the Christmas season? They were always the ...

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Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

Kunsthaus Baselland

Nachleuchten. Nachglühen Videoinstallationen und ihre Wegbereiter

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Mit Werken von Georg Faulhaber, Karl Gerstner, Julio Le Parc, Zilla Leutenegger, Roy Lichtenstein, Gustav Metzger, Oscar Muñoz, Nam June Paik, Sergio Prego, René Pulfer, Pipilotti Rist, Teresa Serrano, Keith Sonnier und Nevet Yitzhak

Eine Beobachtung der Gegenwart in ...

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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

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

Fondation Beyeler

Olafur Eliasson: «LIFE»

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

For over 25 years, Olafur Eliasson’s work has explored perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self. Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world. Eliasson's diverse works – including sculpture, painting, photography, film, ...

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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

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

11.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

11.00 AM - 5.00 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

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Postponed to 2021: Big City Life

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

On the basis of Frans Masereel’s famous woodcuts, impressive testimonies to the human condition in the city during the interwar period, the exhibition «Big City Life» at Cartoonmuseum Basel presents originals by comics artists – works that are either set in the city or are ...

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

10.00 AM - 5.00 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

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

Fondation Beyeler

Rodin/Arp

10.00 AM - 8.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

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

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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 ...

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Exhibition

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

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Exhibition

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)

Schweizer Medienkunst: Pax Art Awards

12.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Mit den Preisen für digitale Kunst ehrt und fördert die Art Foundation Pax in Zusammenarbeit mit dem HeK medienspezifische Praktiken Schweizer Kunstschaffenden, deren Werke Medientechnologien nutzen oder deren Auswirkungen reflektieren. Die Preistragenden der Pax Art Awards ...

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Exhibition

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)

Shaping the Invisible World

12.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Shaping the Invisible World examines cartography as a tool between knowledge and technology. The exhibition presents a selection of artists who use cartographic strategies and location technologies to discuss geopolitical contexts, uncover hidden worlds and unknown realities.

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Exhibition

Museum.BL

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

10.00 AM - 5.00 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

Kunstmuseum Basel

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Living Abstraction

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

The Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943) was a pioneer of abstraction. With an air of playful ease, her interdisciplinary creations dismantled longstanding barriers between art and life. The comprehensive retrospective is produced in cooperation with the Museum of ...

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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.

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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 dear neighbours - cartoons from Germany and Switzerland

Closed

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 ...

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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

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

The Luminator at the Euroairport

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

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Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

The magnificent Kirschgarten House

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

Closed

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 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

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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Special

Kunsthaus Baselland

Videomobil. Kunst nach aussen bringen: Buus

8.00 PM

Mit dem neu initiierten Kunsthaus-Projekt «Videomobil» ist im Monat Mai ein mit Projektionstechnik ausgerüstetes Fahrzeug ins Baselbiet unterwegs. In kurzen Abendscreenings (ca. 45 min) besucht das Videomobil bei guter Witterung sechs Gemeinden des Kanton Basel-Landschaft und ...

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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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Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

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

Closed

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 ...

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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

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

Wild Boar and Lettuce

11.00 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.

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Exhibition

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

X Æ-gen-c A-21 - New Mutations within Techno- psychotic Densities

3.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Woran erkennen wir, dass etwas lebt? Was ist Leben und unter welchen Bedingungen entstand es?

In der Ausstellung 'X Æ-gen-c A-21 - New Mutations within Techno- psychotic Densities' im Ausstellungsraum Klingental tauchen die Basler Künstler Aebersold x Handberg und ...

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