iNaturhistorisches Museum BaselAltstadt Grossbasel
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The 100 best nature photographs from the international competition run by the Natural History Museum in London, chosen from over 65,000 entries.
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Federico Veronesi followed drag marks along a dry riverbed in Namibia's Huab River Valley and found an elephant carrying her dead calf, its leg wedged between her tusk and trunk. That photograph made him Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026, and it hangs here with the rest of the year's top 100, chosen by a jury from more than 65,000 entries.
The competition, organised by the Natural History Museum in London, has run every year since 1965. Walk round and you get a dung beetle shoving its load through Zimbabwean dust, a mushroom glowing under UV light and a monitor lizard leaving a Bangkok park lake with a fish. The 10-and-under winner shot hers on her dad's borrowed phone, so your Rhine sunsets have run out of excuses.
Tickets are CHF 19, CHF 9 for under-20s and students under 30, free under 13. Sunday tours at 11:00 and 13:00 are included, no booking needed. The free public opening is Thursday 19 November at 18:30.
Tipp der Redaktion
The 100 best images from the London Natural History Museum's competition, chosen from more than 65,000 entries. Under-13s get in free, and the museum's dinosaurs and whales are in the same building.
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The Aftermath, the overall winner
Federico Veronesi's elephant in Namibia carries her dead calf, the small leg wedged between her tusk and trunk.
Labour of Love, the young winner
Oscar Whitfield's dung beetle strains to push its load through dry, sun-baked dust in Zimbabwe's Hwange district.
Shedding Light
Look for the mushroom Mycena renati under UV light, glowing a warm yellow-grey instead of the cold blue of other glowing fungi.
Urban Jungle
A water monitor walks through Bangkok's Lumphini Park with a fish from the lakes, where the lizards roam freely and feed on catfish and koi.
Tiny Dancers
Kutub Uddin's slime moulds: fine threads on round yellow-green bodies only 1 to 2 mm high, growing on dead wood.
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- Erster Besuch
- Regentage
- Kleine Kinder
Mit Kindern
Under-13s get in free and under-20s pay CHF 9. On Sundays a family walk from 15:00 to 16:00 looks at selected photos together and is included in the ticket, no booking needed.
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- Wildlife Photographer of the Year© Audun Rikardsen
- Die Eule ist pinkCourtesy of Museum der Kulturen Basel
- Tie-dye: gefaltet, genäht, gefärbtCourtesy of Museum der Kulturen Basel
- Atomkraft: Deine EntscheidungCourtesy of Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)
- Naturhistorisches Museum BaselOwn work / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum der Kulturen BaselRaimond Spekking / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)James Steakley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung LudwigBasmus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kunsthalle BaselCharles-François Marie Iguel (1827[1]-1897) / Wikimedia Commons, Gemeinfrei