Basel Museums Night – Twelve thousand and one night

Discover twelve thousand favourite things and let yourself be painted in sand – equipped with a glittery heart, a new hairdo and an air guitar diploma.

Twelve thousand lucky charms: your moment
18.00 – 02.00
Pose at our photo station with a goodluck mushroom or pig and capture the moment with your mobile phone.
Museum courtyard

Twelve thousand notes: Air guitar museum championship
18.00 – 02.00, finals at 00.00
Lots of emotions, lots of moves. Become a museum-night-certified air guitar player.
Annex, ground floor

Twelve thousand hearts: your souvenir
18.00 – 00.00
Make your own hear-shaped lucky charm in our atelier.
Museum, level 1

Twelve thousand hair: hairstyling with Gogo and Deniz
18.00 – 00.00
A new hairstyle on Museum Night, why not?
Annex, 1st floor

Twelve thousand and more grains of sand
18.00 | 19.00 | 20.00 | 21.00 | 22.00 | 23.00
Sand painter Urs Rudin conjures your portrait out of sand.
Museum courtyard

Short guided tours: Favourite objects
Duration: 20 min. 
The stories behind favourite objects in the exhibitions, told by our curators and experts

18.30
Basel Carnival, with Felix Rudolf von Rohr, in German
Annex, 1st floor

18.30, 20.30
Twelve thousand things, with Tabea Buri, in German
Museum, level 4

19.30
Alive, with Ursula Regehr, in German
Museum, level 2

21.30 | in sign language
Twelve thousand things, with Lua Leirner
Museum, level 4

23.30
Night, with Florence Roth, in German
Museum, level 1

00.30
Memory, with museum director Anna Schmid, in German
Museum, level 3

Guided tour in English: (Re)connect?
22.30
How does ancestral knowledge influence our lives? Guided tour with curators Olga Generalova and Alexander Brust, in cooperation with Ausstellungsraum Klingental
Museum, Ebene 2

Ticket prices and information regarding all participant institutions: museumsnacht.ch