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Cartoonmuseum Basel

OpenClosed | 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, 4052 Basel

T.: +41 61 226 33 60

info@cartoonmuseum.ch
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Opening Hours

Mo Closed | Tu 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | We 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Th 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Fr 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Sa 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Su 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Carnival 2023

27 February 2023: Closed

28 February 2023: Closed

01 March 2023: Closed

Easter 2023

07 April 2023: Closed

08 April 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

09 April 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

10 April 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

May Day 2023

01 May 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Ascension Day 2023

18 May 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Whitsun 2023

28 May 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

29 May 2023: Closed

Art Basel 2023

12 June 2023: Closed

13 June 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

14 June 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

15 June 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

16 June 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

17 June 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

18 June 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Swiss National Holiday 2023

01 August 2023: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Institution

The Cartoonmuseum Basel is the only museum of its kind devoted exclusively to satirical art – from the caricature to the comic. The Late Gothic building on its historic site also includes an unexpected new building by Herzog & de Meuron. Varying, attractively designed exhibitions on political and social themes show the considerable scope of the humorous drawing and the great diversity of artistic techniques. Equal attention is paid to both classical works, some from the museum’s own stocks, and contemporary works.

Admission

Sfr. 12.— Adults
Sfr. 7.— Disabled persons and students up to 25 years
Children up to ten years free

colourkey Free admission

Museums-PASS-Musées Free admission

Swiss Museum Pass Free admission

Access

tram 1/2/15 > Kunstmuseum

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Mo Closed | Tu 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | We 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Th 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Fr 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Sa 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM | Su 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM

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Exhibition

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Cosey

12 November 2022 - 26 February 2023

With his realistic, wonderfully confident line work in the internationally renowned comic series Jonathan, comics artist Cosey from Western Switzerland takes us on journeys – through the breathtaking expanses of Asian, North American and European landscapes, and into his ...

Workshop Children

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Workshop: The hairy winged diver!

Today 05 February 2023 | 2.00 PM - 4.00 PM

On your travels, you came across an exotic animal that nobody has ever seen before, but you were unable to take a photo. Draw your discovery and bring it to life in this workshop, using a simple stop-motion technique, so everyone will know what you mean!
For children aged ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Sunday guided tour

12 February 2023 | 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

Get to know the work of Cosey, creator of “Jonathan”. This comic strip, developed over 17 albums, revolves around Cosey’s central motif: travel. For decades, the artist’s alter ego has been travelling all over Asia – searching for himself. Against this epic backdrop, a ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Meet the artist: Cosey à Bâle

19 February 2023 | 4.00 PM

Jonathan, who is both the hero of the series named after him and the alter ego of its author and illustrator Cosey, has accompanied the latter for 47 years. In between the 17 albums in this series, Cosey has also created over twenty individual books. In his impressive oeuvre, ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Mit spitzer Feder: Felix Schaad und Ieva Kunga im Gespräch

23 February 2023 | 8.00 PM - 9.30 PM

Felix Schaad, Comiczeichner und Karikaturist aus Winterthur, ist bekannt für seine Karikaturen im Tages-Anzeiger (u. a. der legendäre Comic-Strip Eva stammt aus seiner Feder). Roger Federer, die Klimakrise, der Ukrainekrieg oder was die Schweiz gesellschaftspolitisch bewegt – ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Curator-guided tour

26 February 2023 | 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM

The Cosey exhibition brings together not only the most important works by this artist from western Switzerland, but also a number of objects that are exotic to us and to which he has assigned a role in his stories. The guided tour with curator Anette Gehrig reveals the ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

HÉCATOMBE Collectives

11 March 2023 - 18 June 2023

The Genevan collective HÉCATOMBE: three men and three women dedicated to drawing and its narrative possibilities. Since 2004, their shared and experimental mission has been to keep the book-design process in their own hands – from the beginning and the content, through to the ...

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Will Eisner. Godfather of the Graphic Novel

11 March 2023 - 18 June 2023

Will Eisner (1917–2005) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern comics. It is not without reason that the ‘Oscars of the comics industry’, honouring this medium’s best creations every year since 1988 in the USA, bear his name: the Will Eisner Comic Industry ...