Guided tour: World history in the palm of your hand

Basel Historical Museum – Barfüsserkirche
Basel, Switzerland
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Coins and medals
The presentation of the coins provides an insight into the pre-modern financial world and the form and function of money. Their production can be traced in the goldsmith's and coin workshop. Medals immortalized the portrait of the sitter in metal and thus served more art and propaganda purposes.
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Historisches Museum Basel – Barfüsserkirche
Barfüsserplatz 7
4051
Basel
Basel, Switzerland
+41 61 205 86 00
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Free entry with the Museums-PASS-Musées
Dates
On 03 September 2025
Wednesday: 12:30-13:15
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Exhibitions in this museum
Terrace in front of a women's pavilion in the «Friedmatt», around 1930, photo archive UPK
Exhibition
Insanely Normal
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The exhibition tells the story of psychiatry over the last 150 years. It provides an insight into patient histories from the Basel clinic and shows the changes in diagnoses and therapy methods. And ...

Medieval Worlds of Faith
Exhibition
Medieval Worlds of Faith
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Showcased here will be medieval works of art from churches in Switzerland and on the Upper Rhine. The impressive sculptures attesting to the veneration of saints are a reminder of how society was ...

Zeitsprünge – Basler Geschichte in Kürze
Exhibition
Leaps in Time
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Around 200,000 people from 200 nations live in Basel. The city forms the centre of a large tri-national region with a long history. The ‘Zeitsprünge’ exhibition offers highlights of the events and ...