Basel Historical Museum – Musikmuseum
With over 3,300 objects to its name, the Basel Historical Museum is in possession of Switzerland’s largest collection of musical instruments. The ca. 650 European instruments, spread over three floors, span five centuries of music history from the oldest drum dating from 1571 and a highly ornate viola da gamba by Joachim Tielke (ca. 1704) to the Weber Unika Orchestrion of 1925. The 24 cells of the former prison serve as showcases in which visitors can admire instruments while calling up countless samples and additional information on an interactive screen. While touring the museum you will therefore hear all sorts of music, from the familiar to the bizarre.
Basel Historical Museum – Musikmuseum
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The concert takes you on a romantic journey through the Swiss countryside on historical instruments. Gabriele Lucherini and Guilio Padoin play variations on well-known Swiss pieces and at the same ...
In addition to the pictorial Dance of Death, such as the Basel Dance of Death, there are also numerous musical interpretations of the memento mori. The tour looks at the tradition of the musical dance ...
It is not only "music" as a concept that is female. In the history of music, there have always been highly talented and influential women who have unfortunately been forgotten due to the predominantly ...
On a tour of the music museum, bubbling springs can be heard, sounds appear on the cool surface of the water and tones can be heard from containers of water. Refreshment with a twinkle in the eye at ...
Water makes music: it splashes, drips, bubbles or rushes. On the family tour, you can discover the diverse sounds of water for yourself. Musical instruments and simple objects are used to imitate the ...
The Basel Music Museum is in possession of an original saxophone quartet built by its inventor Adolphe Sax. The exciting life story of Adolphe Sax allows us to immerse ourselves in the revolutionary ...
On a tour of the music museum, the music of Camille Saint-Saens sounds and the instruments of the animal imitations are explained.
What was the first string instrument? How have string instruments developed over the centuries? And why does a Stradivarius sound the best? These and other questions are answered on the family tour ...
Basel was a "melting pot" in the 16th century: as an important trading hub, the site of a council, a university town, but also a city with numerous printing works and paper mills, it attracted ...
Babette unexpectedly falls out of her (picture) frame and thus from Basel around 1750 into the present day - and while she's here, she might as well tell us a bit of the inside story: Preferably, of ...
Detective Allegro has discovered some strange things in the music museum. Suddenly there is music coming from the rooms, strange objects are lying on the floor and there is even an instrument case in ...
