Exhibitions

With its new special exhibition ‘Treasure Hoards’, the Basel Historical Museum traces the 25 most spectacular treasure finds in the Basel region. From 16 October 2025.

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

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

150 years ago, the Historical Society and the Antiquarian Society merged to form the ‘Historical and Antiquarian Society of Basel’.

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.