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Basel Historical Museum

Individual tours

We would be happy to guide you and your group through our museums. We offer both general tours as well as tours of any special exhibitions that are showing. The tours lasts 45 to 60 minutes. Their exact content will be tailored to your needs as far as possible.

Further information about the content and costs of our tours and how to book them is provided here:

BARFÜSSERKIRCHE

Tours

  • Rausch – Extase – Rush  — Interactive tour
  • Tour of the Barfüsserkirche – Highlights of the Collection
  • Leaps in Time – A Brief History of Basel
  • Baselstab and Basilisk – Emblems of a City
  • The Basel Dance of Death
  • The Basel Cathedral Treasury
  • Basel’s Guilds and Societies
  • Basel’s Fountains and Water Supply
  • Fantasy Worlds and Scenes of Real Life – Medieval Tapestries
  • A Mania for Collecting and Thirst for Knowledge – The Amerbach-Kabinett and other Basel Collections
  • The History of the World in the Palm of Your Hand – Coins and Medals
  • Hidden Worlds – Archaeology in Basel

Living History

Prices

During regular opening hours for groups up to 25 people
CHF 450.–
CHF 530.– **

Outside regular opening hours for groups up to 25 people
CHF 550.–
CHF 630.– **


** special exhibitions

Inquiries

Tours must be booked at least two weeks in advance. We look forward to receiving your inquiries by +41 61 205 86 00 or via the inquiry form.

HAUS ZUM KIRSCHGARTEN

Tours

  • Domestic Life in Basel in ca. 1800 – A Tour of the Haus zum Kirschgarten
  • Living and Working at the Haus zum Kirschgarten – The House and Its Occupants
  • Bidets and Powder Jars – On the History of Body Care
  • The Lure of the Exotic – Sheikh Ibrahim in the Orient
  • Timepieces and scientific instruments
  • Highlights of the Toy Collection
  • Christmas Tree Decorations Through the Ages (in December)

Museum Hunt

Prices

During regular opening hours for groups up to 25 people
CHF 370.–

Outside regular opening hours for groups up to 25 people
CHF 470.–

 

Inquiries

Tours must be booked at least two weeks in advance. We look forward to receiving your inquiries by +41 61 205 86 00 or via the inquiry form.

MUSIKMUSEUM

Tours

  • Tour of the Musikmuseum – Highlights of the Collection
  • Tour of the Musikmuseum with a focus on: Keyboard Instruments, String Instruments, Woodwind or Brass
  • 500 Years of Music in Basel
  • The Basler Fasnacht
  • Sound Pictures – Musical Treasures from 16th-Century Basel

Living History

  • Baaabettli!!!! – Babette describes her life as a maid to the Ryhiner-Leissler family.

Prices

During regular opening hours for groups up to 25 people
CHF 370.–

Outside regular opening hours for groups up to 25 people
CHF 470.–

 

Inquiries

Tours must be booked at least two weeks in advance. We look forward to receiving your inquiries by +41 61 205 86 00 or via the inquiry form.

 
Contact

Basel Historical Museum
Management & administration
Steinenberg 4
PO box
CH – 4001 Basel

Reception: +41 61 205 86 00
historisches.museum(at)bs.ch

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