Adventszeit im Stadtpalais

Aperçu : écrit avant l'ouverture de l'exposition

Somewhere on every Christmas tree in the house, and somewhere in every room, a squirrel figurine is hiding. The museum puts them out each Advent as a search game, on trees decorated after historical models next to modern ones.

The setting is the period rooms of an 18th-century city palace built for a Basel silk-ribbon manufacturer. You can sit down at the craft table on any day of the run and make an ornament for a tree that visitors decorate together. The open singing happens in the grand stairwell. On Sunday 6 December, 14:00 to 17:00, the Santiglaus and his helper Schmutzli wait in the garden pavilion for children brave enough to recite a little poem, with hot chocolate.

Entry is CHF 18 and free for under-13s, and 6 December is the first Sunday of the month, when it is free for everyone. The house also opens on Tuesdays 1, 8, 15 and 22 December, 10:00 to 17:00.