The cathedral is home to a wealth of beautiful, strange or bizarre sandstone structures. Inaccessible, barely illuminated or far away, the rich details often elude the observer. Since its inception, the Basel Minster Building Workshop has regularly made impressions. They are kept in order to serve as models for the necessary repairs in the event of loss due to weathering or damage. Selected plaster objects are shown in the exhibition, some of them for the first time. The oldest cast on display dates from the 1840s. They enable a direct encounter at eye level and bring the medieval sculptors' love of detail to life.
Attention to detail
This exhibition is available in
German
Plaster casts of Basel Minster
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The Museum Kleines Klingental is presenting a special series of guided tours of its original sandstone sculptures from Basel Cathedral. On four dates to coincide with the feast days of the saints ...
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Sunday, January 11, 2026, 11 a.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Small Refectory The Vogel Gryff in the Museum Kleines Klingental dates from the second half of the 17th century and was in use until 1947 ...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 1 p.m., monastery kitchen The Basel Minster Building Workshop - a look behind the scenes Speaker: Ramon Keller, smelting foreman at the Basel Minster Building Hut In an ...
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Sunday, February 8, 2026, 2 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance The curator Haiggi Baumgartner will personally guide you through the exhibition "Love of detail - plaster casts of Basel Minster" ...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 1 p.m., monastery kitchen From Basel to Strasbourg - A comparison between the sculptures of Basel Cathedral and an Alsatian funerary figure Speaker: Annick Herren ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 1 p.m., monastery kitchen New digital manufacturing processes in casting technology Speaker: Haiggi Baumgartner, curator of the exhibition and sculptor from the Basel ...
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Sunday, March 15, 2026, 11 a.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance The curator Haiggi Baumgartner will personally guide you through the exhibition "Love of detail - plaster casts of Basel Minster". Guided ...
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Friday, March 20, 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 21, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Large refectory and monastery kitchen For the eleventh time, the ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Small Refectory She was a naturalist and artist, businesswoman, author and publisher of various books on flowers and caterpillars. Maria ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Small Refectory She was a naturalist and artist, businesswoman, author and publisher of various books on flowers and caterpillars. Maria ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2026, 2 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance The guided tour looks at the special, over 750-year-old history of the Kleiner Klingental and its significance for Kleinbasel ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 6 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental Ceremonial opening of the new special exhibition "Basel on a plate - Culinary city history(ies)" With aperitif, admission free
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 2.30 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance In the Middle Ages, the Klingental monastery had an extensive garden known for its variety of medicinal plants. Many Basel residents ...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Large Refectory Concert with Agata Michalec Stahl (violin), Milena Kowarik (cello), Hristo Kazakov (piano) and Brigitte Kowarik (voice) ...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Large Refectory Concert with Miriam Terragni (flute), Aurea Marston (soprano), Jana Ozolina (violin), Gunta Ābele (cello) and ...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 6 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Large Refectory The Museum Kleines Klingental invites you to the vernissage of its new publication. The richly illustrated book sheds ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2026, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance Immerse yourself in the world of Romanesque and Gothic cathedral figures in the Museum Kleines Klingental and view these ...
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Wednesday, September 30 and November 25, 2026, 2:30 p.m. each day Meeting point: Rüdengasse 2, entrance to the former main post office In the 20th century, sacred glass painting developed into a ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 2:30 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance Immerse yourself in the world of medieval monastic life! On this guided tour, building researcher Frank Löbbecke and art historian ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 4 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance The red sandstone sculptures on display at Basel Minster in the Museum Kleines Klingental offer a rich reflection of their respective ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2026, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance Immerse yourself in the world of Romanesque and Gothic cathedral figures in the Museum Kleines Klingental and view these ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 2.30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, meeting point: museum entrance One of the best-known figures at Basel Minster is St. Martin, who is on horseback about to cut his ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 4 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance The red sandstone sculptures on display at Basel Minster in the Museum Kleines Klingental offer a rich reflection of their respective ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Large Refectory Concert with the Van der Pals Quartet: Gordan Trajkovic, Frederik Burstedt (violin), Markus Falkbring (viola) and ...
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Sunday, November 8, 2026, 11 a.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Great Refectory The Museum Kleines Klingental organizes an annual charity concert in collaboration with the musicians Susanne Mathé and ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 4 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance The guided tour tells the eventful story of the wall painting fragments by Basel artist Ernst Stückelberg (1831-1903), which ...
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Wednesday, September 30 and November 25, 2026, 2:30 p.m. each day Meeting point: Rüdengasse 2, entrance to the former main post office In the 20th century, sacred glass painting developed into a ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 7:30 p.m. Museum Kleines Klingental, Large Refectory Concert with the Absolut Trio: Bettina Boller (violin), Judith Gerster (cello) and Stefka Perifanova (piano) Rudolf ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2026, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance Immerse yourself in the world of Romanesque and Gothic cathedral figures in the Museum Kleines Klingental and view these ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2026, 3 p.m. Meeting point: Museum entrance Christmas in Basel had and still has many faces. For the Klingental nuns in the Middle Ages, it was a symbol of Christian charity. Even ...
