Opening

Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 6:30 pm

Opening String Figures / Fadenspiele

Museum Tinguely cordially invites you to the opening of the new exhibition String Figures / Fadenspiele from 6:30 pm onwards. 
Free admission.

Workshop
Sunday, 3 November 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Event
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.
with Roland Wetzel (Director of Museum Tinguely)

guided tour
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 1 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

Concert
Friday, 25 October 2024, 4-6 pm

Roche 'n' Jazz | JMO

JMO Jan Galega Brönnimann - Moussa Cissokho - Omri Hason
in cooperation with the bird's eye jazz club
Costs: museum admission

guided tour
Saturday, 19 October 2024, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

Currently fully booked!

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

Workshop
Sunday, 13 October 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Event
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.
with Max Küng

Workshop
Sunday, 22 September 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

guided tour
Thursday, 5 September 2024, 7:30-9 pm

Public guided tour in sign language

Lua Leirner leads through the exhibition Mika Rottenberg. Antimatter Factory.

Museum admission is free of charge for participants of the guided tour, no booking required.

Workshop
Sunday, 1 September 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Workshop
Saturday, 31 August 2024, 11:30

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Event
Thursday, 29 August 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.
with Barbara Schädler

Workshop
Sunday, 11 August 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Event
Thursday, 25 July 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.
with Isabelle Menke

Workshop
Sunday, 21 July 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshop in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Workshop
Sunday, 30 June 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshop in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Event
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.
with Eva Herzog

Workshop
Sunday, 9 June 2024

Plastic Matters

Workshops in cooperation with Precious Basel Plastic
Costs: 5 CHF
Limited number of participants, advance booking recommended
 

Event
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

Book Launch
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 6 pm

Book launch in the park

Revolving Histories and PANCH - Performance Art Network CH present:
Speeches and picnic at the fountain in front of Museum Tinguely
Free admission, no booking required, in German

Performance
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 8-10 pm

Speaking in Tongues

A performance project by
Dominique Rust/ Clarissa Herbst/ Michael Wolf
Music composition/ Martin Schütz
Evening box office: CHF 25, reduced CHF 15
Only cash payment is possible at the box office.
​reservations are possible at: dominique.rust@bluewin.ch

Performance
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 8-10 pm

Speaking in Tongues

A performance project by
Dominique Rust/ Clarissa Herbst/ Michael Wolf
Music composition/ Martin Schütz
Evening box office CHF 25, reduced CHF 15
Only cash payment is possible at the box office.
​reservations are possible at: dominique.rust@bluewin.ch

Concert
Monday, 6 May 2024, 7:30 pm

Sonic Space Basel@Tinguely

31 Töne und mehr
Concert by students of the sonic space basel study programmes of the Hochschule für Musik Basel
Free admission

Event
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

Event
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

Symposium
Saturday, 16 March 2024, 9:30 am-6 pm

Symposium À bruit secret + Les témoins oculistes

Interdisciplinary symposium on the sense of hearing and sight
As part of the series of exhibitions dedicated to the human senses in art, Museum Tinguely is organising in Basel another public conference with experts from various disciplines.

Symposium
Friday, 15 March 2024, 9:15 am-6 pm

Symposium À bruit secret + Les témoins oculistes

Interdisciplinary symposium on the sense of hearing and sight
As part of the series of exhibitions dedicated to the human senses in art, Museum Tinguely is organising in Basel another public conference with experts from various disciplines.

Symposium
Thursday, 14 March 2024, 4:30 pm-8:30 pm

Symposium À bruit secret + Les témoins oculistes

Interdisciplinary symposium on the sense of hearing and sight
As part of the series of exhibitions dedicated to the human senses in art, Museum Tinguely is organising in Basel another public conference with experts from various disciplines.

Event
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 7:30 -9 pm

Klub der Klugscheisser

Free admission, no booking required, in German, at the Museumsbistro «Chez Jeannot»

guided tour
Sunday, 3 March 2024, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

Event
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

guided tour
Sunday, 25 February 2024, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

guided tour
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

Opening

Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 6:30 pm

Opening Otto Piene

Museum Tinguely cordially invites you to the opening of the new exhibition Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise from 6:30 pm onwards. 
Free admission.

Event
Thursday, 25 January 2024, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

Talk

Wednesday, 17 January 2024, 6:30 pm

Reality Machine 4

Decade without borders
The journalist Jens Balzer in conversation with Boris Nikitin about the nineties, reality TV and the revolution of performance.
Free admission, no registration, in German

Talk
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 6:30 pm

Reality Machine 3

Lecture by Sebastian Baden
In his lecture on the conceptual history of the «Mindbombs», Sebastian Baden presents aspects of a visual culture of political violence in the context of terrorist media events.
Free admission, no registration

Talk
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 6:30 pm

Reality Machine 2

Imitations of Life
Boris Nikitin talks with curator and author Florian Malzacher about emancipatory forgeries, radical vulnerability, reality-tv and their book Das Gegenteil der Dinge.
Free admission, no registration, in German

Event
Thursday, 14 December 2023, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

Talk
Monday, 11 December 2023, 6-8 pm

Sonic Space Basel @Tinguely

The Witness Listening to Our Imperiled Planet
Conversation, Multimedia Installation and Performance by students of the Hochschule für Musik Basel FHNW and guests
Costs: Free admission

special

Sunday, 10 December 2023, 11:30 am - 5 pm

Family Sunday

Drop-in workshop on the occasion of the exhibitions Temitayo Ogunbiyi und Delphine Reist.
Costs: museum admission, no booking required
Family Sundays are inclusive events

Talk
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 6:30 pm

Reality Machine 1

The Planetary Test-bed: Big Data, AI, and the Future of Human Life
Lecture by Orit Halpern
Free admission, no booking required, in English

guided tour
Sunday, 3 December 2023, 1:30 pm

POSTPONED | Guided tour with machTheater

The tour will be postponed to February, the exact date will be announced later
A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.

 

Concert
Friday, 24 November 2023, 4-6 pm

Roche 'n' Jazz | The mastery of Lionel Loueke

Lionel Loueke and students of the Hochschule für Musik Basel, Institut Jazz, FHNW
in cooperation with the bird's eye jazz club, Culturescapes 2023 Sahara and the Hochschule für Musik Basel, Institut Jazz, FHNW
Costs: museum admission

guided tour
Sunday, 19 November 2023, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

Special
Sunday, 19 November 2023, 11:30 am - 5:30pm

Inclusion Day | Hearing

On Inclusion Day, Museum Tinguely is all about signs. Discover various activities related to the topic of hearing, such as a crash course in sign language or how to communicate without words.
Costs: museum admission, on this day admission is free for IV recipients, in German and German sign language

guided tour
Sunday, 12 November 2023, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

guided tour
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

guided tour
Saturday, 4 November 2023, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 18:30

Book Launch
Kleine Basler Kunstgeschichte

The publishing house Christoph Merian Verlag presents its new publication.
Followed by an Apéro and free admission to the current exhibitions.

guided tour
Sunday, 29 October 2023, 3-4:30 pm

Public guided tour in sign language

Lua Leirner leads through the exhibition Temitayo Ogunbiyi. You will follow the Rhein and compose play.

Museum admission is free of charge for participants of the guided tour, no booking required.

guided tour
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 1:30 pm

Guided tour with machTheater

A guided tour through the collection Jean Tinguely from a different perspective with the actors of machTheater.
Costs: museum admission, booking required, max. 20 people

 

Event
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 6 pm

Sound Bar

Enjoy drinks and tunes with DJ Alice Hänsenberger. Open from 6 pm, free admission.

Concert
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 7:30 pm

Sonic Space Basel @Tinguely

Christian Diersteins and the students of his percussion class musically interpret Temitayo Ogunbiyi’s installation.
Free admission

Performance
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 9 pm

BOT - Klap/Crash

Balancing on the fine line between music and theater, BOT captivates its audience with straightforward performance, homemade musical contraptions, raw visual poetry and fragile, warm-hearted songs - a visual and musical adventure.

Performance
Wednesday, 13 September 2023, 8:15 pm

BOT - Klap/Crash

Balancing on the fine line between music and theater, BOT captivates its audience with straightforward performance, homemade musical contraptions, raw visual poetry and fragile, warm-hearted songs - a visual and musical adventure.

guided tour
Sunday, 10 September 2023, 3-4:30 pm

Public guided tour in sign language

Lua Leirner leads through the permanent exhibition La roue = c'est tout.
Museum admission is free of charge for participants of the guided tour, no booking required.

Workshop
Sunday, 10 September 2023, 11:30 am - 5 pm

Family Sunday

Costs: museum admission, no booking required
Drop-in workshop
Family Sundays are inclusive events