Events in Basel

Immerse yourself in the Egypt of yesteryear and experience ancient Egyptian culture with all your senses.

The extensive Christophe Blain retrospective at Cartoonmuseum Basel presents the artistic development and all facets of this French comics star – from sketchbooks through to paintings using various techniques.

What the shop windows in a prominent pedestrian location in the middle of Basel already announce is confirmed at every turn inside the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel.

versteckt, verschollen, entdeckt

Permanent collection

The Ammonite & Thunderbolt exhibition features rocks from northwestern Switzerland that are between 16,000 and 250 million years old.

On your marks, get set, go! invites visitors to view the future not as something distant, but as something we create ourselves - step by step, track by track, choice by choice.

Alongside Hans Holbein the Younger, Arnold Böcklin is one of the patron saints of the Kunstmuseum Basel, which houses the most important collection of his works with over 90 paintings and sculptures.

The galleries on the Hauptbau's first floor facing St. Alban-Graben are the domain of the long nineteenth century.

Testimonies to the Near Future

The most important world fair of the international art market for 20th & 21st century art.

Sammlung Gegenwart