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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

This comprehensive tour of the Vitra Campus provides an overview of the history of the Vitra company and the evolution of the company premises in Weil, placing special emphasis on the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando and the ...

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tour (DE)

2.00 PM

This comprehensive tour of the Vitra Campus provides an overview of the history of the Vitra company and the evolution of the company premises in Weil, placing special emphasis on the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando and the ...

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tour (DE)

11.00 AM

This comprehensive tour of the Vitra Campus provides an overview of the history of the Vitra company and the evolution of the company premises in Weil, placing special emphasis on the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando and the ...

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tour (EN)

3.00 PM

This comprehensive tour of the Vitra Campus provides an overview of the history of the Vitra company and the evolution of the company premises in Weil, placing special emphasis on the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid, the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando and the ...

Vitra Design Museum

Architecture Tour (EN)

12.00 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

Die Suche nach dem Paradiesvogel führt uns auf eine Reise durchs Labyrinth der Natur. Wir treffen auf verschiedenste Vögel – farbenprächtige, schräge und unbekannte – und deren Lebensräume. Die rund 80 ausgestellten Vogelpräparate stammen aus der ganzen Welt. Denn neben ...

Museum.BL

Auf der Suche nach dem Paradiesvogel

9.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Special

Augusta Raurica

Auf Postenjagd durch die Römerstadt

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 ...

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica animal park

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Man with a glass of milk in front of a wall

Während dem Ausstellungsrundgang erhalten Sie einen vertieften Einblick in die aktuelle Ausstellung der Fondation Beyeler.

Preis: Eintritt + CHF 7.–

Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt.
Tickets können im Voraus online oder gleichentags an der ...

Fondation Beyeler

Ausstellungsrundgang «Jeff Wall»

3.00 PM - 4.00 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

10.00 AM - 5.00 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

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

Die US-amerikanische Künstlerin Carrie Mae Weems, geboren 1953, lädt uns in der Ausstellung "The Evidence of Things Not Seen" im Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart ein, gemeinsam mit ihr blinde Flecken der (Zeit)geschichte zu erkunden. Seit bald 40 Jahren erforscht sie dominante, ...

Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart

Carrie Mae Weems. The Evidence of Things Not Seen

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

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

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

9.00 AM - 4.00 PM

The annual presentation at the Vitra Schaudepot reveals the collection of the Vitra Design Museum in a fresh light every year. The new focus topic, which will be on display from May 2022 to May 2023, is wholly devoted to colour. Following an invitation from the Vitra Design ...

Vitra Design Museum

Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis

10.00 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

Kuratiert von Simone Neuenschwander
Im neuen Ausstellungsformat Double treffen jeweils zwei Kunstschaffende aufeinander, die mit ihren unterschiedlichen künstlerischen Herangehensweisen in einen Dialog treten. Dabei sollen sich die regionale und internationale ...

Kunst Raum Riehen

Double #1: Judith Kakon – Iris / Lou Masduraud – Mananagement opera

1.00 PM - 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 ...

Dreiländermuseum

Dreiländerausstellung / Dauerausstellung: Hallo, Salut, Grüezi!

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 - 10.00 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

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

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 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

Closed

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

Die Präsentation HONEY, I REARRANGED THE COLLECTION zeigt Meisterwerke und Publikumslieblinge aus der Sammlung der Fondation Beyeler in neuen Konstellationen. Das Spektrum fächert sich auf in figurative Darstellungen und ungegenständliche Werke sowie in die vielerlei ...

Fondation Beyeler

Honey, I Rearranged the Collection

10.00 AM - 9.00 PM

Exhibition Children

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

IBERIANS

11.00 AM - 10.00 PM

The special exhibition, conceived in cooperation with the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, is dedicated to the culture and art of the Iberians. This civilisation comprised a group of peoples who stretched across the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula between the 6th and ...

Ein Blick in den Spiegel, dann landet ein tapsiger Finger auf der Nasenspitze: «Das bin ja ich!»

Kaum jemand mag sich an diesen Moment erinnern und doch beginnt hier ein grosses Abenteuer: Wer bin ich? Was möchte ich einmal werden? Wie denke ich über andere und sie ...

MUKS − Museum Kultur & Spiel Riehen

Immer ich?! Eine etwas andere Reise zu Dir

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das «Inventarium» ist eine kleine Ausstellung über das Sammeln und Ordnen von Dingen und Wissen im Museum. Hier erfahren Besucherinnen und Besucher was eine Generalinventur ist und warum das Historische Museum eine solche braucht.

Was machen die «Inventis» in den ...

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Inventarium – Eine Dokumentation der Generalinventur im Historischen Museum Basel

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Exhibition Barrier-free

Vitra Design Museum

Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The exhibition »Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture« at the Vitra Design Museum will be the first large retrospective of the Dutch photographer’s work. Iwan Baan’s photographs are characterised by a vibrant realism that puts the focus on people and their relationship to the ...

The Fondation Beyeler devotes a comprehensive solo show to Canadian artist Jeff Wall (*1946). It will be the first such exhibition of his work in Switzerland in two decades. Since the late 1970s, Wall has contributed significantly to establishing photography as an autonomous ...

Fondation Beyeler

Jeff Wall

10.00 AM - 9.00 PM

Exploring the legacies of socialist modernism through a melding of meticulous handcraft and a sci-fi aesthetic, Klára Hosnedlová (* 1990) presents an entirely new body of cast glass sculptures and sewn works in her first solo show in Switzerland and most extensive exhibition ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Klára Hosnedlová: "GROWTH"

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Special

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Kultur trifft Kulinarik – unser K&K-Angebot

6.00 PM - 9.00 PM

Begeben Sie sich auf eine spannende Reise in die Welt der Iberer. Entdecken Sie die vielfältige Kunst und Kultur dieser eisenzeitlichen Volksgruppen und verbringen Sie einen faszinierenden Freitagabend im Antikenmuseum Basel.

Zunächst entspannen Sie bei einem Apéro ...

Laut Tinguely ‘leben wir in einer Räderzivilisation’. So ist das Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine und die daraus resultierenden Abhängigkeiten, die Tinguely lustvoll dekonstruierte, auch heute noch prägend für unser Leben. Erstmals seit der Gründung des Museums wird die ...

Museum Tinguely

La roue = c'est tout. Sammlungspräsentation

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

He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Many original manuscripts are on display in the exhibition and media stations invite visitors to experiment with his music.

Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum

Ligeti Labyrinth - An Exhibition on the 100th Birthday of György Ligeti

11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Once a caterpillar has battled its way out of its egg, it eats as much as it can. It changes its appearance, grows and metamorphoses in order to ultimately emerge from its chrysalis as a beautiful butterfly and fly through the air. We illustrate this remarkable stage of ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Loophole – From the Egg to the Butterfly

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum begegnet uns nicht nur auf Plätzen und Brunnen, sie überrascht uns auch an unerwarteten Orten. In unzähligen Erscheinungsformen taucht sie auf, erfreut und irritiert uns, und bietet nicht selten Konfliktstoff. all around Basel | art in public spaces ...

Museum Tinguely

Marcel Scheible. all around Basel | art in public spaces

11.00 AM - 6.00 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

Pinke Leuchtschrift auf dunklem Grund: Nacht – träumen oder wachen

In den nächtlichen Stunden machen wir vielfältige Erfahrungen zwischen Erholung und Erlebnis, Bedrohung und Verlockung, Alltag und Abenteuer. Die Ausstellung zeigt im Spiel von Licht und Dunkelheit, wie wir die Nacht verbringen, wovor wir uns fürchten und was sie dennoch so ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Nacht – träumen oder wachen

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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

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

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Nolan Oswald Dennis (* 1988 Sambia) zeigt erstmals ein ortsspezifisches, monumentales diagrammartiges Kunstwerk, welches sich über die gesamte Rückwand der Kunsthalle Basel erstreckt. Auf Gesprächen mit Physiker*innen, Geograph*innen und Schriftsteller*innen beruhend, benutzt ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Nolan Oswald Dennis: «a recurse 4 [3] worlds»

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

In der Ausstellung "Now, wouldn't that be iconic" springen wir mit den Künstler*innen der Ausstellung Anina Müller, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler und Ramona Kortyka in eine mit Fan- und Popkultur gefüllte Zwischenwelt. Eine Welt voller glitzernder, expressiver Charaktere, deren ...

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

Now, wouldn’t that be iconic

3.00 PM - 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 ...

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Octopus & Butterfly – Fascinating Invertebrates

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

A woman with long dark hair, wearing jeans and a chequered shirt, sits on a tree trunk in the forest, holding up a microphone.

Klänge und Hörumgebungen versetzen uns in andere Zeiten, sie erinnern an besondere Lebensereignisse und prägen unser Gefühl von Zuhause-Sein. Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft präsentieren in einer Hörausstellung, wie sich Migration, Identität und Zugehörigkeit für sie ...

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Ohren auf Reisen

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Workshop

Fondation Beyeler

Open Studio

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Das Open Studio bietet die Möglichkeit, sich in unterschiedlichen Workshops vertieft mit Themen und Arbeitstechniken der Künstlerinnen und Künstler auseinanderzusetzen und verschiedene Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten zu erproben.
Jeff Wall

Original dissections of human body parts, organs and tissues.

Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel

Original Dissections

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

Otto Piene (1928−2014) verfolgte mit seiner Kunst hochgesteckte Ziele: Nicht nur erweiterte er seinen künstlerischen Schaffensbereich mit schwebender Sky Art und medialen Projektionen buchstäblich bis in den Himmel, auch sollten seine Werke einen Beitrag zu einer ...

Museum Tinguely

Otto Piene. Wege zum Paradies

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, Skulpturhalle

Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculptures

Closed

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

9.00 AM - 4.00 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

There is no life without intoxication. How can we deal with the phenomenon of intoxication? Embark on a journey of discovery.

Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche

Rausch – Extase – Rush

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Mit der Augmented-Reality-App können Sie die ausserordentlich gut erhaltenen Gewerbehäuser an der römischen Fernstrasse auf neue Art erkunden: Mit einem AR-Hörspiel und einem interaktiven Rundgang. Tauchen Sie ein in das Alltagsleben vor 1700 Jahren und erleben Sie die ...

Augusta Raurica

Ruinengeschichten digital: Augmented-Reality-Hörspiel in den Gewerbehäusern

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Das Kunstmuseum Basel zählt international zu den renommiertesten Museen seiner Art. Seine weltberühmte Sammlung, die Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, umfasst über 300‘000 Werke aus acht Jahrhunderten, vom späten Mittelalter bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Der Kernbestand, ...

Kunstmuseum Basel

Sammlung Kunstmuseum Basel

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Exhibition Children

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

SEXY – TRIEBFEDER DES LEBENS

10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Die Welt der Tiere ist farbenprächtig und formenreich. Für den Kampf um das Objekt der Begierde rüsten sie sich mit unterschiedlichen Waffen. Tierische Verhaltensweisen, Paarungsarten und Familienmodelle sind äusserst vielfältig. Warum? Weil es Geschlechter gibt.

Mit ...

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

9.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Im Zentrum der Schau steht ein vom Künstler Ernst Stückelberg (1831–1903) in den 1870er-Jahren mit Wandbildern dekorierter Basler Salon. Kurz vor Abbruch der Liegenschaft 1937 wurden Teile der Salon-Dekoration gerettet und eingelagert. Aus der Dämmerung ans Licht geholt, wird ...

Museum Kleines Klingental

Stückelbergs wiederentdeckte Wandbilder – Fragmente aus einem Basler Künstlersalon

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.

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

Freedom affects everyone. In a large temporary exhibition, the Dreiländermuseum remembers the early Europe-wide freedom movement of 1848/49 and at the same time sensitizes people to the present and the future.
"Prosperity, education, freedom for all" - those demands were ...

Dreiländermuseum

The call for freedom - 1848/49 and today

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Seit 30 Jahren befindet sich die Basler Papiermühle im idyllischen Mühlenquartier St. Alban; in einem Haus, in dem über 500 Jahre lang Papier produziert wurde. Nach einer umfassenden baulichen Sanierung und Neukonzeption der Dauerausstellung wird das selber Hand anlegen und ...

Basler Papiermühle

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

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 ...

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

8.00 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 ...

Museum.BL

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

9.00 AM - 4.00 PM

Ausschnitt aus dem Plakat 'riri', von Hansruedi Widmer, 1958, Sammlung Format F4

A selection of 25 outstanding posters in world format "F4" shows how creatively and independently the internationally highly regarded Swiss poster scene has developed over the past eight decades. An initially new visual language, it became known through works for industry, ...

Dreiländermuseum

Time witnesses in world format - Swiss poster art 1940 to the present

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Tobias Spichtig (*1982) presents his first major institutional solo show in Switzerland, Everything No One Ever Wanted. The Swiss artist draws inspiration from the world of fashion, music, and even 1950s existentialist painting to create an all-new body of works, including ...

Kunsthalle Basel

Tobias Spichtig: "Everything No One Ever Wanted"

11.00 AM - 6.00 PM

The presentation »Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House« at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery is dedicated to the recently constructed Tane Garden House on the Vitra Campus. With a footprint of barely 15 square metres, the house combines a rooftop viewing platform for Campus visitors ...

Vitra Design Museum

Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Die Ausstellung «UBERMORGEN, Johanna Müller & Giulia Essyad. Schweizer Medienkunst – Pax Art Awards 2023» bietet eine Auswahl von Werken der preisgekrönten Künstler:innen in drei parallel laufenden Einzelausstellungen.

Den Hauptpreis der Pax Art Awards 2023 erhielt ...

HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)

UBERMORGEN, Johanna Müller, Giulia Essyad. Schweizer Medienkunst – Pax Art Awards 2023 – Pax Art Awards 2023

12.00 PM - 6.00 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

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