Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Leaps in Time
from 22 June 2019
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
24 November 2019 | 11.00 AM - 12.00 PM
The exhibition Leaps in Time will provide a brief history of Basel from the earliest signs of human activity there to the present. Visitors will be piloted through 100,000 years of history by some hundred exhibits, including key evidence of some of the great milestones of the past.
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
OpenClosed |
Barfüsserplatz 7, 4051 Basel
Opening Hours
09 May 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
19 May 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
20 May 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
01 August 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
24 December 2024: Closed
25 December 2024: Closed
26 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
27 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
28 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
29 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
30 December 2024: Closed
31 December 2024: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
01 January 2025: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Institution
The Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and artefacts of relevance to our cultural heritage for future generations, tells visitors the story of Basel, and is a place for discourse and engagement with both present and future.
The Basel Historical Museum, housed in the Barfüsserkirche since 1894, shows selected aspects of the history of Basel from prehistoric times to the present. The focus of the exhibits from the pre-Reformation period is on sacred works of art such as the Basel Dance of Death and Basel Cathedral Treasury. The exhibition in the basement, headed “Understanding the World”, comprises a magnificent array of medieval tapestries with their fantasy worlds and scenes of real life, the Renaissance and Baroque collections, now grouped together in one “Great Cabinet of Curiosities”, and Basel’s rich archaeological heritage. Among the other highlights are the coin cabinet and the Burgundian Booty.
Admission
colourkey Free admission
Museums-PASS-Musées Free admission
Swiss Museum Pass Free admission
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Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Permanent exhibition
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Permanent exhibition
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
from 23 March 2018
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
12 May 2024 | 11.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
22 May 2024 | 12.30 PM - 1.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
from 22 June 2019
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
29 June 2022 - 31 October 2025
Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
26 October 2023 - 30 June 2024