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  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

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  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Opening times

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  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

  • Monday closed

Special opening times

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Museum Night 12.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00
    18:00 - 23:59

  • All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Martin 11.11.2025 closed

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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High heels: from the battlefield to the height of fashion

Murielle Schlup

7. August 2025

High heels are a perennially popular fashion accessory. Nowadays, it’s usually women who wear them as the days of men going into battle on horseback with heeled footwear are in the past. The cultural history of the high heel is a mixture of myth, modishness and might.

Schweizer Absatzschuhe für den amerikanischen Absatzmarkt: Glänzende Modellauswahl von Bally aus den 1930er-Jahren.

A Cold War witch-hunt

Rea Köppel

5. August 2025

Following a trip to the Soviet Union in September 1953, Helene Bossert, a poet from the Basel area, was reputed to be a communist. Given the anti-communist spirit prevalent in Switzerland in the 1950s, the suspicion cast upon her would almost ruin her life.

Eine verhängnisvolle Reise: Die Baselbieter Dichterin Helene Bossert wird 1953 in Armenien von Einheimischen begrüsst.

1 August 1975 – from Bern to Helsinki

Thomas Bürgisser

1. August 2025

Back in 1975, on Swiss National Day of all days, Switzerland’s president Pierre Graber signed the Helsinki Final Act (also known as the Helsinki Accords), concluding the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Finnish capital. It marked an easing of tensions in the midst of the Cold War.

Historischer Unterschriften-Marathon: Am 1. August 1975 wurde die Schlussakte der Konferenz über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (KSZE) unterschrieben.
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