Basel Historical Museum has a collection comprising over 250,000 objects. A selection of these is presented here.
The scientists, scholars and collectors of the 16th century and thereafter kept Wunderkammer full of spectacular objects and works of art. Among the treasures presented are some that originally belonged to the world-famous Amerbach Cabinet.
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dated 1595 – Attributed to Jakob Plepp, Basle – Height 55 cm, width 37.5 cm – Inv. 1991.257.
After his successful mediation in the 1594 rebellion of the subjects of the Basle region, …
Ascribed to David joris, Basle, ca. 1545 – Monopartife panel, diameter 20 cm – Inv. 1905.498.
It is difficult to fit the series of small roundels of the Christian virtues, originally …
Basle, ca. 1500 – Height 47 cm, width 32 cm – lnv. 1947.17.
This well preserved glass painting displays the coat of arms of the old Thierstein dynasty …
Switzerland, ca. 1300 – Height 62 cm, width 67 cm – Inv. 1881.87.
The trefoil window with Christ enthroned as the Pantokrator from Nendaz parish church in …
dated 1514 Basle – Height 50.5 cm, width 49 cm – height 24 cm, width 55 cm – Inv. 1925.62. – Inv. 1925.179.
The armorial panel with angels and the richly figured panel above it were originally part …
Basle, 1512/20 – Height 46 cm, width 32 cm – Inv. 1904.328.
The proliferation in the late Middle Ages of legends involving the basilisk in the …
dated 1854 – Adolf Mieg, Basle – Height 71 cm, width 60.5 cm – Inv. 1964.21.
From 1841 the three 'honourable societies' of Kleinbasel, 'zum Rebhaus', 'zur Hären and …
Lukas Zeiner, Zurich, 1500-01 – Height 50 cm, width 35 cm – Inv.1870.1272.
The panel of Zug belongs to a cycle of armorial panels conceived as a whole and presented …
dated 1519 – Basle – Height 60.5 cm, width 35.5 cm – Inv. 1930.93.
Early Renaissance glass painting in Basle received powerful and lasting inspiration from …
dated 1731 – Johann Rudolf Huber(?), Basle – Monopartite panel – height 14.5 cm, width 14.5 cm – Inv. 1888,95. purchase
The small octagonal panel shows Chronos, the personification of Time, as an old bearded man …
dated 1497 – Upper Rhine region – Height 45 cm, width 32 cm – Inv. 1958.19.
The subject of the glass painting, which according to the inscription was donated by …
dated 1520 Basle – Height 61.5 cm, width 53 cm – Inv. 1935.479.
The armorial panel of Georg von Massmunster is the only surviving glass painting of the …
dated 1660 Wolfgang Spengler, Constance – Height 45 cm, width 42 cm – Inv. 1877.9.
The armorial panel, a signed work by the Constance glass painter Wolfgang Spengler dated …
Workshop of Peter Hemmel von Andlau, Strasbourg, ca. 1480 – Height 62 cm, width 36 cm – Inv. 1891.106.
The two curved tracery infill panels with musician angels which the Museum bought in 1891 …
Basle, 2nd half 16th century – Height 15 cm, width 38.5 cm – Inv. 1895.69.
Originally set above a glass painting that is now missing, this small stained glass …
Ropstein workshop, Freiburg in Breisgau, 1st quarter 16th century – Height 746.5 cm, width 54.5 cm – Inv. 1901.270.
The Mater Dolorosa is one of the set of 25 large figure panels of which eight were …
dated 1521 – Upper Rhine – Height 42 cm, width 31 cm – Inv. 1923.246.
The armorial panel of Breisach depicts the brothers St Gervasius and St Protasius whose …
dated 1508, Basle – Height 72 cm, width 50 cm – Inv. 1870.1277.
Basle's medieval guilds were originally not just craft associations, but religious …
Basle, ca. 1470 – Height 59 cm, width 4I cm – Inv.1881.77.
The St Christopher panel, created by an unknown master ca. 1470, is a choice example of …
Designed by Hieronymus Hess, Basle, 1849 – executed by Ferdinand Beck, Schaffhausen, 1852 – Height 77 cm, width 47 cm – Inv. 1981.28.
In 1849 Eduard Merian Bischoff had four glass paintings commemorating illustrious members …
Basle, 1663/64 – Monopartite panel, height 36 cm, width 39 cm – Inv. 1870.1290
In 1663 the mayors Niklaus Rippel and Rudolf Wettstein and the master guildsmen Benedict …
from Notre Dame de la Visitation, Bourguillon Attributed to Michel Glaser, mid 15th century¨ Height 149 cm, width 76.5 cm – Inv. 1888.43.a.
The museum has two tall rectangular windows from the lepers' and pilgrims' church of Notre …
dated 1560 – Attributed to Ludwig Ringler, Basle – Height 702.5 cm, width 54.5 cm – Inv. 1884.64.
The large panel with the gonfalonier of the Basle guild of wool and linen weavers is a …
dated 1615 – Attributed to Hieronymus Vischer, Basle – Height 55.5 cm, width 56 cm – Inv. 1901.42.
Every Basle guild had a drinking room in its guildhall which was specially provided for …
Basle or Winterthur, ca. 1895 – Height 87 cm, width 58 cm – Inv. 1979.115.
The opening of the Historisches Museum in the Barfüsserkirche in 1894 gave many Basle …
France, 1st half of 13th century – Dia. 82 cm – Inv. 1978.222.
The original parts of these two Gothic panes are fragments of a now lost stained-glass …
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