Author Richard Harvell will guide you through 10,000 years of Basel history by telling the story of seven Basel products. Understand how Basel turned scarcity into strength and used innovation and adaptability to excel. Each product opens a vivid window onto Basel creativity, commerce, and identity, showing how a small city’s big choices have shaped the modern world. Basel’s past becomes a tale of innovators and disrupters, of daring and contradiction—where women and immigrants play central roles.
Meeting place for the tour will be in the Barfüsserkirche and it will end at Barfüsserplatz; registration for this tour is recommended.
Note that this English-language tour is a part of the Basler Geschichtstage 2026 from March 16-21 (https://baslergeschichtstage.ch/basler-geschichtstage-2026/).
Individual tickets for this event are CHF 15 for adults, CHF 10 for youths under age 20 and students under age 30, and free for kids under age 12.
Tickets for all events for the Basler Geschichtstage week are CHF 25 for adults; and CHF 15 for persons under age 20, students under age 30, holders of the Schweizer Museumspass, Museums-Pass-Musées, Colourkey and KulturLegi; and free for kids under age 12 (free ticket required). Tickets can be purchased directly online via the program calendar (partner Eventfrog.ch) or in person at their partner institutions: the Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche Basel) or Museum.BL (Liestal). Advance ticket sales begin on Tuesday, February 3 (closed on Mondays).

Website
baslergeschichtstage.ch/events/basel-history-in-7-products/

Where
Historisches Museum Basel - Barfüsserkirche
Barfüsserplatz 7
4051 Basel

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