Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Auf grossen und kleinen Füssen durchs Stadtpalais – Leben, spielen und arbeiten um 1800
Today 19 May 2024 | 11.15 AM - 12.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Today: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
from 24 February 1951
The magnificent Kirschgarten House - built between 1775 and 1780 as the home and office of a Basle silk ribbon manufacturer - is one of Switzerland's principal museums of domestic life. Laid out on two floors, period rooms depict life during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Basle. Special collections of international significance are also on display: the Nathan-Rupp and Dr. Eugen Gschwind watch and clock collections, as well as toys, Basle silver, and a number of scientific instruments.
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Today 19 May 2024 | 11.15 AM - 12.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
29 May 2024 | 12.30 PM - 1.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
05 June 2024 | 12.30 PM - 1.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
09 June 2024 | 11.15 AM - 12.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
19 June 2024 | 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
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Elisabethenstrasse 27, 4051 Basel
Opening Hours
19 May 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
20 May 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
01 August 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
24 December 2024: Closed
25 December 2024: Closed
26 December 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
27 December 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
28 December 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
29 December 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
30 December 2024: Closed
31 December 2024: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
01 January 2025: 11.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Institution
The Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and artefacts of relevance to our cultural heritage for future generations, tells visitors the story of Basel, and is a place for discourse and engagement with both present and future.
The Haus zum Kirschgarten was built for the silk ribbon manufacturer and army colonel Johann Rudolf Burckhardt between 1775 and 1780. The mansion designed by the architect Johann Ulrich Büchel attests to his client’s wealth and status and is a tour de force of early Neoclassical style, influenced in part by Masonic concepts. It has been a museum of domestic culture since 1951. Most of the interior is devoted to the 18th- and 19th-century period rooms formerly inhabited by Basel’s bourgeoisie. But the museum also houses several special collections and hosts mini-exhibitions, such as that on Sheikh Ibrahim.
Admission
colourkey Free admission
Museums-PASS-Musées Free admission
Swiss Museum Pass Free admission
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T.: +41 61 205 86 00
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Permanent exhibition
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
from 24 February 1951
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Today 19 May 2024 | 11.15 AM - 12.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
29 May 2024 | 12.30 PM - 1.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
05 June 2024 | 12.30 PM - 1.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
09 June 2024 | 11.15 AM - 12.15 PM
Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
19 June 2024 | 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM