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Sheik Ibrahim
A Basel Sheik in the Orient
The Haus zum Kirschgarten is exhibiting a small but fine selection of objects that highlight the posthumous recognition of this Basel-born traveller to the Orient.
Permanent exhibition
Haus zum Kirschgarten
About the exhibition
October 15 th, 2017 marks the bicentenary of the death of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817).
The Basel Historical Museum is therefore honouring the famous explorer, who as «Sheikh Ibrahim» travelled all over the Near East, with an extensively revised and expanded edition of a biography that has long been out of print. It is also staging a small exhibition about him inside the house in which he grew up, the Haus zum Kirschgarten.
