The Basel Historical Museum, with its three sites, constantly offers smaller and larger exhibitions.
Large exhibitions are accompanied by a wide range of guided tours and events.
June 10 2022 – January 29 2023
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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.
June 29 2022 – …
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
The «Inventarium» is a small exhibition about collecting and organising things and knowledge in the museum
October 22 2021 – June 25 2023
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Musikmuseum
The special exhibition presents the many connections between animals and music.
June 22 2019 – …
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
A brief history of Basel from the earliest signs of human activity to the present.
March 1 2022 – August 28 2022
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
In the 18th century smallpox was an endemic disease that almost everybody had at some point.
June 8 2018 – December 31 2023
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Haus zum Kirschgarten
German,
English,
French
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Admission
They are among the great treasures of ceramic art: the works from the Strasbourg faience factory of the Hannong family.
March 23 2018 – …
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
The presentation of medieval art in the Basel Historical Museum offers exciting insights into the omnipresence of the Christian faith.
October 15 2017 – …
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Haus zum Kirschgarten
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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.
Basel Historical Museum
Management & administration
Steinenberg 4
PO box
CH – 4001 Basel
Reception: +41 61 205 86 00
historisches.museum(at)bs.ch
