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The museum is managed by the canton of Basel-City. Its origins lie with the Amerbach family in the 16th century whose Wunderkammer was bought by Basel 1661 and brought to the public 1671. The cultural history objects of this Wunderkammer, together with the ones of other collections, became the Historisches Museum Basel in 1894.
Basel was a canton of Switzerland that was in existence between 1501 and 1833, when it was split into the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country. [ 1 ] Background
The oldest museum in the Basel region outside the city is the Museum of Canton Basel-Country (Museum des Kantons Basel-Landschaft) in Liestal, nowadays called Museum.BL. It was founded in 1837 as a "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" (Naturaliencabinett) and up through the 1930s primarily took up objects of natural history into the collections.
1821 – Natural History Museum founded. 1833 – Canton of Basel divided. 1834 – Basler Stadttheater founded. 1839 – Basler Kunstverein founded. 1840 – Income tax collection begins in the canton. [15] 1850 – Population: 27,844 in city; 29,698 in canton. [16] 1864 – Elisabethenkirche built. 1867 – Allgemeine Musikschule founded.
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Basel-Stadt from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 70 individual buildings, 32 collections and 3 archaeological finds.
Museum of Cultures Basel. The Museum of Cultures in Basel (German: Museum der Kulturen Basel) is a Swiss museum of ethnography with large and important collections of artifacts, especially from Europe, the South Pacific, Mesoamerica, Tibet, and Bali. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. [1]
Augusta Raurica around 240 AD. During excavations it was determined that the city was founded on a high plateau just south of the Rhine river. Two small rivers, the Ergolz and Violen, have carved a triangle in the plateau, the base of which is about 1 kilometer wide along the base of the Jura Mountains, and the apex points northward toward the Rhine, about 1 kilometer from the base.
It was established as a natural history collection in 1821. [2] The museum is a heritage site of national significance. [3] Here, the mummy of Anna Catharina Bischoff is kept and examined. It was found in 1975 during excavations in the Barfüsserkirche Basel. The skeleton of Theo the Pipe Smoker was found 1984 near the Theodorskirche in Kleinbasel.