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• The pink owl

  Look for the small Mexican vessel flute with pink feathers and round yellow eyes, perched on a painted tree among its brown, grey and white owl friends.

• The Wyschywanka blouses

  Three white Ukrainian blouses with bright embroidery at the sleeves and collar, once meant to ward off evil and now worn as a sign of resistance and solidarity.

• The carmine reds

  Rugs, ponchos and skeins of wool dyed with carmine, a red made from scale insects on prickly pear cactus and traded between the Americas and Europe under Spanish rule.

• The Basel dye labels

  A dark wall of small labels from Basel dye firms, printed with elephants, a junk at sea and a lion balancing on a barrel.

• The carnival mask station

  Blank white Fasnacht masks hang on the wall, and at a screen beside them you paint one yourself.

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Children up to 12 get in free, and the show was made with kids: hands-on stations, things to touch and smell, and a whole last room for making. The museum also runs family workshops on the show for ages 6 and up.