The popular search game for our young guests at the Haus zum Kirschgarten.
The Basel Historical Museum, with its three sites, constantly offers smaller and larger exhibitions.
Browse through our archive and explore past exhibitions and special highlights. Please find our current exhibitions here.
April 1 2023 – April 16 2023
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Haus zum Kirschgarten
Admission
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The popular search game for our young guests at the Haus zum Kirschgarten.
September 6 2022 – March 5 2023
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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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.
June 10 2022 – January 29 2023
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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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.
March 1 2022 – August 28 2022
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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In the 18th century smallpox was an endemic disease that almost everybody had at some point.
January 21 2022 – May 22 2022
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Barfüsserkirche
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During excavations at the St. Alban-Graben in 2020, archaeologists discovered the skeleton of a monkey in a late medieval latrine tower.
June 18 2021 – November 14 2021
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Barfüsserkirche
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Basel Historical Museum commemorates the 200th anniversary of the death of Peter Ochs with a small exhibition in two display cases in the Barfüsserkirche.
August 18 2020 – June 13 2021
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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In cooperation with the University Library of Basel and for the first time, we are showing an exquisite selection of letters by exiled authors from the archives of the feature editor Otto Kleiber.
August 21 2020 – May 30 2021
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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UNTIL 30 MAY 2021: Basel Historical Museum is showing a special exhibition on Basel during the National Socialist era.
July 18 2020 – December 13 2020
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Barfüsserkirche
Admission
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Impressive photographs from the Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection bring that time of technical feats and hopes back to life.
July 2 2019 – August 16 2020
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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Starting in July, the Basel Historical Museum is to show the Basel Quran. The manuscript penned in Egypt or Syria in 1242 was brought to the Council of Basel from Constantinople in 1437.
September 6 2019 – March 1 2020
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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Bruno Manser (1954–2005) was Switzerland’s best known environmentalist and human rights activist during his lifetime. He studied the language and culture of the Penan in Malaysian Borneo. This cabinet exhibition on the activist was organized in cooperation with the Bruno Manser Fonds and the Museum der Kulturen Basel.
October 16 2019 – February 23 2020
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Barfüsserkirche
German,
English,
French
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This exhibition to mark the 175th anniversary of the birth of the famous German cultural critic and philosopher presents Friedrich Nietzsche, his works and influence to this day.
May 24 2019 – February 2 2020
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Musikmuseum
German,
English,
French
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Admission
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Unique prints and manuscripts telling of the cultural life of Renaissance Basel.
October 11 2019 – January 19 2020
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Kunstmuseum Basel, Neubau
German,
English,
French
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Exhibition admission
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The Basel Historical Museum is currently preparing a major loan exhibition to celebrate the millennium of Basel cathedral «GOLD & GLORY – Gifts for Eternity», which is to be the key event among numerous festivities planned for the cathedral jubilee.
Basel Historical Museum
Management & administration
Steinenberg 4
PO box
CH – 4001 Basel
Reception: +41 61 205 86 00
historisches.museum(at)bs.ch
