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Basel Museums and Galleries Walk

Basel Museums and Galleries Walk

Basel · Switzerland

14 stops6.3 km1 h 17 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow this walk through Basel’s museums and galleries, moving from antiquities and historic collections to painting, sculpture and contemporary art. Along the way, you will also encounter museums devoted to music, natural history, cultures, cartoons and caricature. The route includes both major collections and smaller, more focused museums, giving you many different ways to explore the city through its exhibitions. Allow time to pause at the stops that match your interests.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Kunstmuseum Basel | Hauptbau

    Kunstmuseum Basel | Hauptbau

    A civic museum built on four centuries of public collecting, argument, and generosity.

  2. Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

    Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

    A museum assembled from Basel’s antiquities and two nineteenth-century houses.

  3. Basel Historical Museum – Haus zum Kirschgarten

    Basel Historical Museum – Haus zum Kirschgarten

    A merchant’s townhouse that also concealed an eighteenth-century Freemason’s lodge

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Kunsthalle Basel

    Kunsthalle Basel

    A nineteenth-century art institution that repeatedly brought new art to Basel first.

  6. Basel Historical Museum - Barfuesserkirche

    Basel Historical Museum - Barfuesserkirche

    A Christian church now serving as a museum, with its own history still partly outside the record.

  7. Basel Historical Museum – Musikmuseum

    Basel Historical Museum – Musikmuseum

    A five-century music collection displayed inside former prison cells at Basel’s Lohnhof.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.