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Guided Tour

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

11.00 AM - 12.00 PM

Guided Tour

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

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

11.00 AM - 12.00 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 ...

Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

ABGESAGT – Guided Tour in English

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Guided tour through the current collection display.

Price: Admission fee + CHF 7.–

The number of participants is limited. Tickets are available in advance in our online shop or at the box office on the day of the tour.

Guided Tour Children

Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten

ABGESAGT: Heinzelmännchen im Haus – Die versteckten Gänge der Dienerschaft

3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

Wir machen uns auf die Suche nach den Spuren der Bediensteten im Haus zum Kirschgarten, und schlüpfen für eine Stunde in ihre Rolle. Was hat die Dienerschaft des Stadtpalais gearbeitet? Wie waren ihre Wege durchs Haus und wo haben sie selber gelebt? So manches Geheimnis wird ...

Guided Tour

Museum.BL

ABGESAGT: La, la, la. Eine Ausstellung zum Mitsingen

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Wir singen aus Freude, Trauer oder aus Liebe. Wir singen, um uns zu beruhigen, anzuspornen, zu umgarnen und uns zu befreien – allein, zu zweit, im Chor. Wieso hat Gesang für Mensch und Tier eine solche Kraft?

In «La, la, la. Eine Ausstellung zum Mitsingen» lauschen ...

Guided Tour

Museum.BL

ABGESAGT: Webstuhl-Vorführung

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Guided Tour

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Ägypten. 3000 Jahre Hochkultur am Nil

11.30 AM - 12.30 PM

Führung durch «Ägypten. 3'000 Jahre Hochkultur am Nil»

Kosten: Kollekte
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Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

9.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Art and Nazism

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Basel Carnival

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

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

Exhibition

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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 ...

Guided Tour

Fondation Beyeler

BIS AUF WEITERES ABGESAGT – Führung

12.00 PM - 1.00 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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Continuously Contemporary. New Works from the Emanuel Hoffmann

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Kunstmuseum Basel ǀ Gegenwart, the museum presents a selection of new large-format works and ensembles from the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. In the second part, groups of works by artists* such as Klara ...

Workshop

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Cut it yourself

1.30 PM - 4.30 PM

Basel artist Marcel Mayer, who exhibits in Switzerland and abroad, has been running druckwerk, a studio for letterpress, lithography and copperplate printing, since 1994. He has also been teaching woodcut printing at SfG Basel since 2018. In this workshop, he will explain the ...

Exhibition

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Denim – stylish, practical, timeless

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 ...

Antike Plastiken in einer Gruppe vor einer Wand stehend

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.

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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

9.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Dorian Sari. Post-Truth

10.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

EARTH AT ITS LIMITS

9.00 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. ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Guided Tour

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)

Eröffnungstage: Shaping the Invisible World

12.00 PM - 6.00 PM

Shaping the Invisible World untersucht anhand der Kartografie Repräsentationsformen der Karte als Werkzeug zwischen Wissen und Technologie. Die Ausstellung präsentiert eine Auswahl von Kunstschaffenden, die kartografische Strategien und Verortungstechnologien einsetzen, um ...

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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

9.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Four Years. Gifts and Acquisitions

10.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Special

Kunsthalle Basel

Free admission to the new solo exhibitions by Lydia Ourahmane and Joachim Bandau.

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Free admission to the new solo exhibitions «Barzakh» by Lydia Ourahmane and «Die Nichtschönen: Works, 1967–1974» by Joachim Bandau.

4 kleine schmale Fläschchen mit ätherischen Ölen wie Lavendel Neroli

Guided Tour

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

Frühjahrsdüfte. Mit der Nase die Pharmaziegeschichte entdecken

2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Verschiedene Aromen wurden seit jeher zu Heilzwecken eingesetzt. Duftstoffe sollten nicht nur die Sinne anregen, sondern auch kranke Materie aus dem Körper austreiben und das Wohlbefinden wiederherstellen.

Exhibition

Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli

Funeral Artefacts

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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

Exhibition

Vitra Design Museum

Gallery: Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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 ...

Exhibition

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Kunstmuseum Basel

Grand Gestures. Four Decades of Swiss Abstraction

10.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

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 ...

Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

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

11.00 AM - 6.00 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. ...

Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

10.00 AM - 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.

Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Historical Preparations

10.00 AM - 4.00 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 ...

Ausstellungsraum im Schweizerischen Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

Exhibition

Schweizerisches Feuerwehrmuseum Basel

History of Fire-fighting

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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

Exhibition

Pharmaziemuseum der Universität Basel

History of Pharmacy

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

The Museum of Pharmacy exhibits one of the world's largest collections dedicated to the history of pharmacy. Alchemistic laboratories, pharmacies, scientific instruments, ceramics, and many other highlights are shown in a medieval house.

Exhibition

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 ...

Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

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

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Judith Kakon: «¤»

11.00 AM - 5.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Katja Aufleger. GONE

11.00 AM - 6.00 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, ...

Zeitsprünge - Basler Geschichte in Kürze

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 ...

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. ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

9.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Kunsthalle Basel

Lydia Ourahmane: «Barzakh»

11.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

9.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Glaubenswelten des Mittelalters Altarkreuz

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 ...

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

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.

Exhibition

Museum Tinguely

Mengele-Dance of Death

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Exhibition

Museum Kleines Klingental

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Eine wissenschaftliche Illustration von einem Gehirn

Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

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

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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

9.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

9.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

10.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

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 ...

Gipsplastiken gruppiert vor einer roten Wand

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.

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 ...

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.

Exhibition

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

9.00 AM - 6.00 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», ...

Exhibition

Fondation Beyeler

Rodin/Arp

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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. ...

Guided Tour

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Sonntagsführung ERDE AM LIMIT

10.15 AM, 11.30 AM, 1.00 PM

Unsere Erde ist ein besonderer Planet: Auf ihr ist Leben entstanden. Über Jahrtausende hinweg existierte der Mensch, ohne tiefgreifende Spuren in der Umwelt zu hinterlassen. Doch mittlerweile setzt unser stetig wachsender Bedarf an Platz und natürlichen Ressourcen die ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Exhibition

Dreiländermuseum

The dear neighbours - cartoons from Germany and Switzerland

11.00 AM - 6.00 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 ...

Exhibition

Basler Papiermühle

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

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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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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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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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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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Mühlemuseum

The Millers' Daily Work

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The former watermill at the Brüglingerhof offers an exhibition on the history of the watermill and millers' daily work from the Bronze Age up to the 21st century.

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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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Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Up Close and Personal / Judaism

11.00 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 ...

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

Digital Exhibition

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

Digital Exhibition

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.

Digital Exhibition

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

Digital Exhibition

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Virtueller Rundgang «Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen»

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Schaudepot: Gae Aulenti: A Creative Universe

12.00 PM - 5.00 PM

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 ...

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Vitra Design Museum

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

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 ...

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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Whale & Fish – Gentle Giants of the Ocean

9.00 AM - 6.00 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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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.

07 March 2021

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

ABGESAGT – Guided Tour in English

ABGESAGT: Heinzelmännchen im Haus – Die versteckten Gänge der Dienerschaft

ABGESAGT: La, la, la. Eine Ausstellung zum Mitsingen

ABGESAGT: Webstuhl-Vorführung

Ägypten. 3000 Jahre Hochkultur am Nil

Ammonit & Belemnite – The Endless World of Fossils

Art and Nazism

Arte popolare napoletana

Art Leu Family. Caresser la peau du ciel

Augusta Raurica animal park

Basel Carnival

Big. Things Interpretations Dimensions

BIS AUF WEITERES ABGESAGT – Führung

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

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

Continuously Contemporary. New Works from the Emanuel Hoffmann

Cut it yourself

Denim – stylish, practical, timeless

Dichter - Denker - Demagogen

Digital: TINGUELY@HOME

Dinos & Sauriers – Living Images of the Past

Dorian Sari. Post-Truth

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

EARTH AT ITS LIMITS

Egypt. 3,000 years of culture on the Nile

Eintreten ins virtuelle Museum

Enlightened – The Realm of the Buddhas

Eröffnungstage: Shaping the Invisible World

Fascinating World of Teddy Bears and Dolls

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

Four Years. Gifts and Acquisitions

Free admission to the new solo exhibitions by Lydia Ourahmane and Joachim Bandau.

Frühjahrsdüfte. Mit der Nase die Pharmaziegeschichte entdecken

Funeral Artefacts

Gallery: Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance

Glaubensdinge (Onlineausstellung)

Grand Gestures. Four Decades of Swiss Abstraction

Grenzfälle – Basel 1933–1945

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

Historical Convent and Medieval Sculptures

Historical Preparations

History of Fire-fighting

History of Pharmacy

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

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

Judith Kakon: «¤»

Katja Aufleger. GONE

Leaps in Time

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

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

Lydia Ourahmane: «Barzakh»

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

Medieval Worlds of Faith

Memory – Moments of Remembering and Forgetting

Mengele-Dance of Death

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

Mysterious brain. Can sport make you clever?

Nachleuchten. Nachglühen Videoinstallationen und ihre Wegbereiter

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

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

Original Dissections

Permanent collections Jean Tinguely

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

Postponed to 2021: Big City Life

Preserve! What we collect. A convertible permanent exhibition

Quagga & Dodo – Threatened and extinct

Rodin/Arp

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

Römische Porträts in Abgüssen der Skulpturhalle

Shaping the Invisible World

Silk Ribbon. Capital, Art & Crises. Silk industry

Sonntagsführung ERDE AM LIMIT

Swiss Gate to the Ocean

Switzerland - a Country of Sound Pioneers

Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments

The dear neighbours - cartoons from Germany and Switzerland

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

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