Basel (Stadt)
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NOTE: Many Basel-related Web pages are in German, but you can translate with AltaVista when necessary.

Entertainment

Mybasel.ch: Kino
Movie schedules and theatre locations are from Basel Online.

Blues Priority
Even in prosperous Basel, people sing the blues.

Pasión Flamenco
Tired of Alphorns, yodeling, and techno? Spend your vacation learning flamenco dancing at this school in central Basel. Private lessons are available, and the school will also stage performances for private groups.

Jazzschule Basel
The city's jazz school sponsors performances and workshops by world-famous artists and groups.

Lazy Poker Blues Band
This Basel-based band has toured with Joe Cocker and B.B. King, and it recorded its most recent album in Chicago.

PowerPlay
The "ultimate rockband of Basel, Switzerland" has frequent concerts in the region.

Events

ArtBasel
The city's International Art Fair takes place in June. (I've set this ill-behaved site to open in a new browser window so you won't get trapped on its pages.)

Fasnacht
Basel's annual Fasnacht, or Carnival, is a Swiss version of Mardi Gras. Highlights include Guggenmusik bands,  open-air skits, a children's parade, and uninhibited carousing. For more information, see Basler Fasnacht Online.

Media

Radio Basilisk
Click the "Programm" link to hear this station via Windows Media Player or Live-Stream.

Museums/Monuments

Antiquities Museum and Ludwig Collection
Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman artworks are the house specialties.

Augusta Raurica
Some 20,000 people lived in this Roman town 1,800 years ago. Today's open-air museum complex has ruins, a reconstruction of a Roman house, and a "Roman farm" animal park. In summer, you can get there by boat.

Basel Historical Museum
The city's history since Celtic times is chronicled in the Barfüsserkirche, a restored Franciscan church from the 1300s. Other museum branches are also listed here.

Basel Public Art Collection
The ÖKB encompasses two museums: the Basel Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Museum of Cultures
Basel's ethnological museum displays objects from around the world, with an emphasis on the Americas, the Pacific, and rural Europe.

Museum Jean Tinguely
This museum opened in 1996. It celebrates the work of Jean Tinguely, a Swiss artist whose career spanned three and a half decades before his death in 1991. (This site will open in a new browser window.)

Natural History Museum
Minerals, dinosaurs, birds, and beetles are among the specimens in this internationally respected museum.

Puppenhaus Museum
Dolls, dollhouses, teddy bears, toy carousels, etc. occupy four floors of exhibition  space in central Basel.

Vitra Design Museum
This ultramodern, international museum of furniture and interior design is located across the German border in Weil am Rhein. Take the A5 motorway or the No. 5 bus from the Badischer Bahnhof (railway station) in Basel.

Zoo Basel
The Basel Zoological Garden ("Zolli Basel" in dialect) is a 5- to 10-minute walk from the center of town or the railroad station. Animals range from apes to zebras.

Photos/Webcams/Artwork

Drawings from Heinz Klose
Click the thumbnails for larger images of Basel in black and white.

Sports/Recreation

Basler Ruder-Club
The local rowing club has two boathouses, some 400 members, and more than a hundred years of history.

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