General Inventory
This major project involves the examination and detailed cataloguing of over 300,000 collection objects.
Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and artefacts of relevance to our cultural heritage for future generations, tells visitors the story of Basel, and is a place for discourse and engagement with the past, present and future.
Programme
This major project involves the examination and detailed cataloguing of over 300,000 collection objects.
The exhibition explores the phenomenon of euphoria and its impacts. Open until 30 June 2024.
An endless treasure of stories awaits you in our museum. With a German speaking TiM guide you roam through our collection, choose an object and invent a story about it.
Due to ongoing work in the music museum, the exhibition rooms are currently being used in a reduced capacity.
Let the small exhibition take you on a journey through the multifaceted musical world of Lukas Sarasin in the 18th century.
The new strategy was developed with the involvement of the Museum Commission and the staff. Read more (in German)
Each of our three sites is a museum in its own right with a modern and unique collection on a specific theme. Since all three are located within easy walking distance of each other, holders of a Combi-Ticket can visit all three museums in one day.
Barfüsserkirche has housed an exhibition on the history of Basel from prehistoric times to the present since 1894.
Admission
Single ticket CHF 15.– / 8.– *
Accessibility
Majority wheelchair access
WLAN
Free wifi
Information video surveillance
Most of the interior is devoted to the 18th- and 19th-century period rooms formerly inhabited by Basel’s affluent bourgeoisie.
Admission
Single ticket CHF 10.– / 5.– *
Accessibility
No wheelchair access
WLAN
Free wifi
Information video surveillance
The 24 cells of the former prison serve as showcases for 650 musical instruments spanning five centuries.
Admission
Single ticket CHF 10.– / 5.– *
Accessibility
Limited wheelchair access
WLAN
Free wifi
Information video surveillance
Basel Historical Museum
Management & administration
Steinenberg 4
PO box
CH – 4001 Basel
Reception: +41 61 205 86 00
historisches.museum(at)bs.ch