Everything is alive

The textile collection at the Museum der Kulturen Basel is world famous. The present pop-up exhibition traces the threads of the collection’s history and questions how and why fabrics from across the ...

Gold brings a glitter to Christmas trees, embellishes precious items, and stands for holiness. But where there’s light, there’s also shadow. The mining of this precious metal leaves deep scars across ...

Remembering and forgetting are ever-present features of life. The exhibition playfully reveals the manifold practices people rely on to recall specific moments in life, from birth to death, but also ...

Colours make the world look bright. But do we all perceive and experience them in the same way? In a flight across the museum’s collection, our pink owl spotted a range of colourful objects and now ...

Shibori refers to a fabric patterning technique. In Japanese, shiboru means to compress or wring, and describes how unique patterns are created by folding, tying, and sewing. After dyeing, all the ...

The climate crisis poses a threat to the habitability of the Earth, and has prompted a rethink of the perspectives, networks, and interactions of human and non-human actors. How do we humans perceive ...

Set in historical rooms, the Museum offers a colourful overview of the world-famous Basel carnival – ranging from costumes, lanterns, masks, and musical instruments, to historical documents and a ...