‘Insanely normal’ special Sunday – 4 May 2025
On 4 May 2025, Basel Historical Museum will be putting people at the centre of its various activities to mark the special exhibition ‘insanely normal’.
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
On 4 May 2025, Basel Historical Museum will be putting people at the centre of its various activities to mark the special exhibition ‘insanely normal’.
‘Upcycling Music’ presents imaginative musical instruments made from recycled materials and invites visitors to try them out. From 16 January 2025.
The exhibition tells the story of psychiatry over the last 150 years.
This major project involves the examination and detailed cataloguing of over 300,000 collection objects.
Memories of the Eurovision Song Contest belong in the museum. We are looking for objects related to the ESC – and their stories. Can you help?
Im Podcast «verrückt normal» erzählen Katja Rehmann und Micha Gasser Geschichten aus der alten Basler Psychiatrie.
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.
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.
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.
Accessibility
Limited wheelchair access
WLAN
Free wifi
Information video surveillance
Management & administration
PO box | Steinenberg 4
CH-4001 Basel
Office opening hours
8:30 – 12 AM | 13:30 – 17 PM
Reception: +41 61 205 86 00
historisches.museum(at)bs.ch
