Natural History Museum of Basel
Natural History Museum Basel is a natural history museum in Basel, Switzerland that houses wide-ranging collections focused on the fields of zoology, entomology, mineralogy, anthropology, osteology and paleontology.Photo: Basmus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
Tuesday—Sunday and public holidays: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
December 24th: closed - Type: Museum
- Description: museum in the city of Basel, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Naturhistorisches Museum”, “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”, “NHMB”, and “NMB”
- Address: Augustinergasse 2, Basel, 4051
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of Cultures and Basel Minster.
Museum of Cultures
Museum
Photo: Bala Biott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Cultures in Basel is a Swiss museum of ethnography with large and important collections of artifacts, especially from Europe, the South Pacific, Mesoamerica, Tibet, and Bali. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Basel Minster
Church
Basel Minster is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Roman Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church. The original cathedral was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles. Basel Minster is situated 200 metres southeast of Natural History Museum of Basel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosental and Basel-Gundeldingen.
Binningen
Town
Photo: Daendy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Binningen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is nestled in a valley, on a plateau, and on two hills overlooking the city of Basel. Binningen is situated 3 km southwest of Natural History Museum of Basel.
Natural History Museum of Basel
- Categories: science museum, memory institution, building, tourism, public building, and tourist attraction
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-City, Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.55759° or 47° 33′ 27″ northLongitude
7.59022° or 7° 35′ 25″ eastOpen location code
8FV9HH5R+23OpenStreetMap ID
way 137472370OpenStreetMap feature
building=civicOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q675823
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In Other Languages
From Afar to Tosk Albanian—“Natural History Museum of Basel” goes by many names.
- Afar: “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- Catalan: “Museu d’Història Natural de Basilea”
- Chinese: “巴塞爾自然史博物館”
- Dutch: “Natural History Museum of Basel”
- Dutch: “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- French: “musée d’histoire naturelle de Bâle”
- French: “Musée d’histoire naturelle de Bâle”
- German: “Naturhistorischen museum Basel”
- German: “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- German: “Naturhistorisches Museum”
- Italian: “Museo di scienze naturali di Basilea”
- Italian: “Museo di scienze naturali”
- Japanese: “バーゼル自然史博物館”
- Portuguese: “Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Bâle”
- Portuguese: “Museu de História Natural de Basileia”
- Portuguese: “Museu de História Natural de Basiléia”
- Spanish: “Museo de Historia Natural de Basilea”
- Spanish: “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- Swiss German: “Naturhistorischs Museum Basel”
- Tosk Albanian: “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- “NHMB”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Zur hohen Sonnenluft and Zum goldenen Stauffen.
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