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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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Delve into a world of wild animals and ferocious hybrid creatures that have fired our imaginations from time immemorial. Learn about the status of animals in ancient civilisations and encounter monstrous creatures such as centaurs, griffins, the sphinx and the Chimera. Many ...

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

animalistic! Animals and hybrid creatures in Antiquity

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

A cow made of marble wears a red and golden harness Next to her stands a woman and kneels a man

For a long time, the relationship between humans and animals was unequal, with humans representing the far superior beings. This view has changed. The exhibition – part of a cooperation between four Basel museums – looks at various aspects of the relationship between humans ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Animalistic! – No Culture Without Animals

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Animals and music delight children and adults alike. But why does the nightingale sing, but the wolf howls? And how do the cow get on the drum and the elephant into the piano? You can find out in the exhibition.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

animalistic! – The Sound of Animals

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Vor drei Jahren ist es einer internationalen Forschergruppe unter der Leitung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel gelungen, eine bis dahin namenlose Mumie als die 1787 verstorbene Anna Catharina Bischoff zu identifizieren. Das soeben im Christoph Merian Verlag erschienene ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

ANNA CATHARINA BISCHOFF. DIE MUMIE AUS DER BARFÜSSERKIRCHE

10.00 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 ...

Kunsthaus Baselland

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

11.00 AM - 5.00 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

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 ...

Museum Tinguely

Art Leu Family. Caresser la peau du ciel

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Closed

(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 ...

Museum Tinguely

Bruce Conner. Light out of Darkness

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Eine Deutungsgeschichte von 1600 bis Wikipedia

In der Sonderausstellung «Buchstäblich jüdisch» sehen Sie Deutungen des «Jüdischen» aus vierhundert Jahren Lexikongeschichte, von erheiternd bis ernüchternd.

Die Installation in der Vesalgasse 5 ist am ...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Buchstäblich jüdisch

5.00 PM - 6.30 PM

Camille Pissarro is recognized as one of the most important painters in 19th century France, far beyond Impressionism. The exhibition focuses on his numerous collaborations with artists such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat and the avant-garde character of his work.

Kunstmuseum Basel

Camille Pissarro. The Studio of Modernism

10.00 AM - 8.00 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 ...

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Cancelled until further notice: Brief tour of the Britannic organ (in german)

1.40 PM - 2.00 PM, 3.40 PM - 4.00 PM

Der moderne Museumsbau aus gelbem Kalkstein liegt mitten in einer reizvollen Landschaft.

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Cancelled until further notice: Explanations about the fabrication of music boxes

3.00 PM - 3.20 PM

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

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Cancelled until further notice: Switzerland – a Country of Sound Pioneers

12.20 PM - 1.20 PM, 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM, 4.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Guided tour

Four sculptures by the artist Fabio Luks engage in a conversation with the medieval gravestones installed in the Museum's courtyard. CHAI, «alive» in Hebrew, is central to Judaism, which attaches the highest importance to life.

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

CHAI - חי. When Gravestones Speak of Life

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

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».

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 Fondation Beyeler’s autumn exhibition will showcase works by nine women artists occupying prominent and distinctive positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida ...

Fondation Beyeler

Close-up (postponed)

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

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

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Die Ausstellung präsentiert anhand von Modellen und Plänen bislang wenig bekannte Ideen aus dem 20. Jahrhundert für Basel, die nicht realisiert worden sind und stellt sie in den aktuellen Kontext. Sie zeigt, dass auch heute ehrgeizige Projekte ausgearbeitet – und realisiert ...

Museum Kleines Klingental

Die geträumte Stadt. Nicht realisierte Planungsprojekte für Basel

2.00 PM - 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

Digital: TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 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

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 ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Dorian Sari. Post-Truth

10.00 AM - 8.00 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

Declarations of love, angry letters, erotic messages, journal-like notes or utopian stories: these texts by Art Brut creators were written behind closed doors, in silence and in secret. Composed in painstaking calligraphy or hastily scribbled, sometimes embroidered, carved ...

Museum Tinguely

Écrits d’Art Brut - Wild Expression & Thought

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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 ...

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 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 ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Born in Basel, the artist Arnold Böcklin is one of the most important representatives of Symbolism and is one of the patron saints of the Kunstmuseum. The exhibition presents over 90 paintings and sculptural works by Böcklin. The Kunstmuseum Basel thus houses the most ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Encountering Böcklin

10.00 AM - 8.00 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

«Everything is in motion. Nothing ever stands still.» Thus begins Jean Tinguely’s manifesto Für Statik of 1959. As part of its festivities to mark «25 Years of Moving Art» Museum Tinguely is showing an exhibition true to the same motto. The venue is a converted barge, ...

Museum Tinguely

Et tout ceci est vrai! In Tinguely’s footsteps between Paris, Amsterdam, and Basel

11.00 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 ...

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

Frühe Musikdrucke aus Basler Pressen

Basel war ein frühes Zentrum des Musiknotendrucks.
Die Universitätsbibliothek Basel präsentiert Highlights aus ihren Beständen.

Zu sehen sind das liturgische Gesangbuch Graduale Romanum, das 1488 in Basel bei ...

Basler Papiermühle

Frühe Musikdrucke aus Basler Pressen

11.00 AM - 5.00 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

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 ...

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Be it in furniture design, fashion design, industrial design, or interior design, women have contributed crucially to the development of modern design, both creatively and commercially. The exhibition «Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today» explores the role of designers ...

Vitra Design Museum

Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 - Today

12.00 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.

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

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

Closed

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.

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

500 years ago, Hans Holbein the Younger created the Dead Christ in the Tomb, which is now one of the icons in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel. 300 years later, in 1821, the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born. In his novel The Idiot, Holbein's painting ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Holbein and Dostoevsky. The Dead Christ and its Effect

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

The successful Basel politician and diplomat Peter Ochs was openly enthusiastic about the French Revolution in 1789 and persistently campaigned for the implementation of human rights and the political equality of all Swiss. As a driving force, he co-founded the Helvetic ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Human Rights and Revolution – Peter Ochs (1752–1821)

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Manufacturers dotted along the Swiss Jura arc once produced large music boxes in a class of their own, either for exhibitions or on order. For almost unlimited musical enjoyment, technical innovations made it possible to play long pieces of music without interruption – a ...

Museum für Musikautomaten Seewen

Jeu continu … Swiss music boxes in a class of their own

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

In memory of Hans U. Bodenmann (1926-2016), early collector and long-time friend of Joseph Beuys, Dr. h.c. Maja Oeri and her sons Hans Emanuel and Melchior Oeri donated eleven display cases of Joseph Beuys to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.

These are on display ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Joseph Beuys. Collection Presentation

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

Sind Tiere musikalisch? Wie klingen Tiere in Musikstücken? Was haben Tiere eigentlich mit Instrumenten zu tun? All diesen Frage gehen wir in einem spannenden Ausstellungs-Rundgang nach, entdecken so manch erstaunliche Geschichte und vielleicht sogar die eigene Musikalität.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Karneval der Tiere Rundgang durch die Ausstellung «tierisch!»

12.30 PM - 1.30 PM

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.

A vacuum is a result of the absence of matter in an airless space. But a vacuum may also be felt, for example in situations in which our accustomed scope for action is lacking. Titled Picture a Vacuum! the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt Annual Exhibition 2021 reflects on the many ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Leaps in Time

10.00 AM - 5.00 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. ...

Museum Tinguely

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

11.00 AM - 6.00 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

You see several wooden sticks put together to become a chart The chart is hanging from the ceiling, throwing its shadow on the wall

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.

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Making the World. Lived Worlds

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 ...

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

In her first Swiss institutional solo exhibition, the German artist Michaela Eichwald (*1967) presents all new paintings. Somewhere between abstraction and figuration, language and gesture, her artistic approach unfolds on thickly-layered surfaces made of unconventional ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Michaela Eichwald «Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren»

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Referent: Jacques Herzog, Herzog & de Meuron

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Museum Kleines Klingental

Mittagscafé mit Stadtgespräch: Basel – eine Stadt im Werden?

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM

The paintings of the German artist Michaela Eichwald (* 1967) move between abstraction and figuration, language and gesture, in order to reimagine one of art history’s most traditional mediums. Together, the artist’s methods of working, deployment of materials, and use of ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Mittwoch-Matinée Michaela Eichwald

10.00 AM - 12.00 PM

The exhibition examines the architectural mock-up, or full-size model, combining a photographic series by the artist David K. Ross with contributions from architectural offices to provide a multifaceted portrait of this phenomenon, its role in the design process, and its ...

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

Mock-Up

11.00 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 ...

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Moving World – Steiff surprises and fascinates

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Soziologe Prof. Dr. Axel Paul, Universität Basel und John Häfelfinger, CEO Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank BLKB im Gespräch

Ist das Bezahlen mit Bargeld noch zeitgemäss oder erledigen wir das einfacher per Handy oder SmartWatch? Die Geldwirtschaft verändert sich radikal, die Prognose: Das virtuelle Geld wird bald physische Münzen und Scheine ersetzen. Bitcoin ist das erste funktionierende ...

Museum.BL

Münzen, Scheine oder Bitcoins – Die Zukunft des Geldes

5.30 PM - 6.30 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 ...

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

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

2.00 PM - 5.00 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

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Fondation Beyeler is presenting one of the most important exhibitions ever devoted to Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) outside of Spain. Goya is one of the last major court artists and the first pioneer of modern art. The exhibition will bring together over seventy paintings ...

Fondation Beyeler

Postponed: Goya

10.00 AM - 8.00 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.

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

Die internationale Gruppenausstellung präsentiert Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die sich mit den Strukturen, Technologien und der Ästhetik einer globalen Gaming-Industrie beschäftigen, deren gängige Narrative und Stereotypen sie subversiv untergraben. Ihre Arbeiten sind geprägt ...

Hek (Haus der elektronischen Künste)

Radical Gaming

12.00 PM - 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

11.00 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. ...

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.

Hafenmuseum

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 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.

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

Antigone (2018), Tacita Dean’s (b. 1965) most recent and complex work to date, makes its Swiss début at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart.

Kunstmuseum Basel

Tacita Dean. Antigone

10.00 AM - 8.00 PM

The notion of the ‹cost of life› is strongly related to that of risk, a central theme in medicine and research. Both concepts play key roles in the work of Paddy Hartley. His artistic comment on medical developments explores their (sometimes contradictory) consequences for ...

Museum Tinguely

The Cost of Life. A perspective on health by Paddy Hartley

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Special exhibition in cooperation with the Museum Tinguely and Roche Basel

The English expression «cost of life» is strongly connotated with risk, a focal aspect of medicine and research. Both themes are central in the œuvre of artist Patrick Hartley, prompting Roche ...

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

The Cost of Life. A perspective on health by Patrick Hartley.

10.00 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 ...

Basler Papiermühle

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

11.00 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.

Augusta Raurica

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

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

Closed

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

Museum Tinguely

TINGUELY@HOME

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

How is a find archaeologically researched? We let experts speak! In 2016, a sensational Roman lead coffin was discovered, recovered and meticulously investigated in Augst. The results show exciting insights into a human life from 1700 years ago.

Augusta Raurica

Under the magnifying glass. Following the traces of a Roman life story

10.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

1.00 PM - 4.00 PM

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

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

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

Virtueller Rundgang des Hauses zum Kirschgarten in 3D

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Klavier mit zwei Gemälden im Hintergrund.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Virtueller Rundgang des Musikmuseums 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

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Ray Eames fotografiert das Tandem Seating im Eames Studio am 23.10.1962

Das Vitra Schaudepot bietet seit seiner Eröffnung 2016 eine Bühne für rund 400 Hauptwerke aus der Sammlung des Vitra Design Museums. Zum fünften Geburtstag erhält das Schaudepot nun ein neues Präsentationskonzept: Dabei schaffen jährliche Themenschwerpunkte ergänzend zur ...

Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: Spot On. Designerinnen in der Sammlung

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

12.00 PM - 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

During the long lockdown we had time to reflect, the values of our society have shifted. Many things we took for granted have taken on a new meaning. Artists from 3 art associations (Verein Bildende Kunst Lörrach, Kunstverein Schopfheim, Kunstverein Weil am Rhein) approach ...

Dreiländermuseum

What counts?!

11.00 AM - 6.00 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