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10:00 - 17:00

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  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Café du Château

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

  • Swiss Federal Fast 21.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Monday of the Swiss Federal Fast 22.09.2025 closed

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2025 closed

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

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Day 01.01.2026 closed

  • Berchtold's Day 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Good Friday 03.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Eve 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Today

10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Café du Château

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

  • Swiss Federal Fast 21.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Monday of the Swiss Federal Fast 22.09.2025 closed

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2025 closed

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

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Day 01.01.2026 closed

  • Berchtold's Day 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Good Friday 03.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Eve 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Round-the-world Travel. From Jules Verne to the First Globetrotters
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Décors. Masterpieces from the Collections
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Les matinales au Potager - Yoga

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A cool round-the-world trip!

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From camomile yellow to madder red: the warm colours of summer

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Latest blog posts

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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