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  • Thursday 10:00 - 19:00

  • Saturday till Monday closed

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  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Long Night of the Museums 06.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00
    18:00 - 23:59

  • Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2025 0:00 - 2:00
    10:00 - 17:00

  • Knabenschiessen 15.09.2025 closed

  • Family Day 19.10.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 22.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 23.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 27.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 28.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 30.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Today

10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum, boutique and bistro

  • Tuesday till Wednesday 10:00 - 17:00

  • Thursday 10:00 - 19:00

  • Friday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

  • Monday closed

Library

  • Tuesday till Wednesday and Friday 10:00 - 18:00

  • Thursday 10:00 - 19:00

  • Saturday till Monday closed

Special opening times

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Long Night of the Museums 06.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00
    18:00 - 23:59

  • Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2025 0:00 - 2:00
    10:00 - 17:00

  • Knabenschiessen 15.09.2025 closed

  • Family Day 19.10.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 22.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 23.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 27.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 28.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 30.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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What happened to Maria Theresia Wilhelm?

Stefan Keller

24. July 2025

In July 1960, a woman went missing in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley, never to be seen again. She was a psychiatric patient and the mother of seven children who had all been taken into care. The story of Maria Theresia Wilhelm and her husband Ulrich Gantenbein is a tragic tale, marred by violence and the arbitrary actions of public authorities.

Maria Theresia Wilhelm und ihr späterer Ehemann Ulrich Gantenbein wurden Opfer von «fürsorgerischen Zwangsmassnahmen».

Basel and the freedom fighters of Saint-Domingue

Esperanza Anido Calvo und Roberto Zaugg

22. July 2025

The Peace of Basel, which was signed in 1795, had far-reaching consequences: for Basel’s City Chancellor Peter Ochs, for revolutionary France, and for events in America’s the biggest slave revolution in the Caribbean of the Americas.

Im Holsteinerhof in Basel wurden 1795 folgenschwere Beschlüsse gefällt, die weit über die europäischen Grenzen hinausgingen. Peter Ochs, der Stadtschreiber der Rheinstadt, hatte dabei seine Hände mit im Spiel.

The destruction of Max Huber’s castle

Dominik Landwehr

17. July 2025

On 19 July 1944, a stricken American bomber crashed into Wyden Castle near Ossingen, the home of Max Huber, professor of international law at Zurich University and president of the Red Cross.

Im Juli 1944 stürzte ein Flugzeug namens «Jackpine Joe» im Zürcher Weinland ab. Ausgerechnet auf das Schloss des IKRK-Präsidenten. Illustration von Marco Heer.
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