Exhibitions

How might we turn water into wine? Conjure the aromas of a festive spread? «Imbibe elegantly »? One of Switzerland’s most important private collections of Baroque silver is presented to the public for the first time in this special exhibition. A fascinating insight into the sheer variety of drinking vessels, their manufacture and use, it reveals that for all the differences, there are also parallels between imbibing today and imbibing 300 years ago.

A top-class collection of predominantly medieval manuscripts was handed over as a deposit to the Historisches Museum Basel in February 2022. Selected treasures will thus be on public display in Basel for the first time until 5 March 2023 in the Barfüsserkirche.

The special exhibition presents the many connections between animals and music.

A brief history of Basel from the earliest signs of human activity to the present.

The «Inventarium» is a small exhibition about collecting and organising things and knowledge in the museum

They are among the great treasures of ceramic art: the works from the Strasbourg faience factory of the Hannong family.

The presentation of medieval art in the Basel Historical Museum offers exciting insights into the omnipresence of the Christian faith.

The Basel Historical Museum is honouring the famous explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), 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.

The Haus zum Kirschgarten enriches the pre-Christmas season with surprises for young and old.