The Museum der Kulturen Basel ranks among the leading ethnographic museums in Europe. The Museum's world-renowned collection numbers more than 340,000 objects, around 300,000 photos, 400 films and sound recordings. In order to regularly display and reposition collection pieces, the Museum organizes, in addition to its two permanent exhibitions, a number of special exhibitions each year with a focus on current as well as more general topics that shed light on the variety and diversity of cultural manifestations across the world. Visitors thus get to see the world with different eyes.
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Basel
Switzerland
Art
47.557224, 7.590655
Adresse
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Münsterplatz 20
4051
Basel
Switzerland
Horaires d'ouverture
Open all year from
Tuesday - Sunday:
10:00-17:00
Closed on
1st Wednesday of the month: until 8.00 pm
Exhibition "The Carnival of Basel":
Thu – Sat: 1.00 – 5.00 pm
Sun: 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Exhibition "The Carnival of Basel":
Thu – Sat: 1.00 – 5.00 pm
Sun: 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Currently and upcoming
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We humans love a bit of colour. Yet our understanding of colours and how we perceive them varies from person to person and across cultures. How do we understand colours? What feelings do they evoke in ...
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What if we humans viewed the world not as a resource, but as a living web in which everything is connected to one another and to us? And how can we fulfill our responsibilities within this web? This ...
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Workshop for Families with Children Sun, August 16, 1:00–3:30 p.m. Making Natural Dyes How are dyes extracted from plants, spices, or even insects? The exhibition “The Owl Is Pink” is all about ...
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How can we help the Earth overcome its crisis? By treating all living beings and nature as equals. During the guided tour of the exhibition “Everything Lives,” participants will learn about new ...
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The textile collection is a centerpiece of the museum’s collections. The guided tour of the pop-up exhibition “Woven, Intertwined, Connected” will explore how fabrics from around the world found their ...
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Sat, August 22, 2:00–3:00 p.m. The textile collection is a centerpiece of the museum’s collections. This guided tour of the pop-up exhibition “Woven, Interwoven, Connected” will explore how fabrics ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2:00–3:00 p.m. What does black sound like? How does yellow feel? An audio guide was developed for the exhibition “The Owl Is Pink” from the perspective of a visually impaired person ...
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Sunday, August 30, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Colorful Traces on Canvas In this workshop with artist Pina Dolce, participants will put on dark glasses and paint with their fingers on canvases. The focus is not ...
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Sunday, August 30, 1:00–2:00 p.m. Everything Lives How can we help the Earth overcome its crisis? By treating all living beings and nature as equals. During the guided tour of the exhibition ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...