Easter 2024

Are you visiting Basel over Easter? A long, fun-packed weekend full of culinary and cultural delights awaits you.

Tips for your Happy Easter in Basel

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Easter brunch

Worn out? Not at all! Nothing beats a delicious brunch on Easter! Sit down at one of the richly set tables.

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BBQ Easter brunch

Indulge yourself on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday in the FeldschlĂśsschen Restaurant and look forward to an extensive BBQ Easter brunch! You can enjoy the finest barbecue specialities and matching beer accompaniment.

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Easter ride with e-bikes

Explore Basel and the region on two wheels! With a BaselCard you can rent the Guest Bikes at the Swiss SBB railway station at a special price.

From CHF 20 a day

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Days in the museum

How about a trip to Museum Tinguely? Otto Piene (1928−2014) created floating sky art and media projections. This monographic exhibition addresses the artist’s desire to shape a more harmonious, peaceful and sustainable world.

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Mit Inspäggter Basil zu Besuch in der Basler Papiermßhle. / Together with Inspäggter Basil in the Basel Paper Mill.

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Sleuths, watch out!

The little ones have found all the Easter nests and still don’t have enough? That’s where our treasure hunt alongside Basil, shepherd’s crook (locally, the Basel’s staff), comes in handy.

CHF 25 per family with 1 child
CHF 45 with 2 children

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Hello wilderness!

Lange Erlen Animal Park is the meeting place for native fauna. So why wait until the animals happen to cross your path?

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Step by step 

250 steps skywards, and the city is already at your feet. Treat yourself to the top view from the Basel Cathedral (Münster), a little sport can’t hurt.

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KirschblĂźte Baselland

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Just a stone’s throw from here ...

Neighbouring Baselland has a wealth of attractive hiking trails offering panoramic views and is well worth a visit at any time of year, but particularly when the cherry trees are in bloom.

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Gift idea for the Easter nest

The gift vouchers from Basel Tourism are valid for hotel bookings, city tours or even the Wickelfisch swim bag. As soon as you have purchased the voucher, it will be available to print.

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All the Easter events

Package deals

Discover attractive hotel deals for Easter in Basel!

Das hochwertige urban lifestyle Hotel The Passage am Steinengraben in Grossbasel.

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The Passage

Easter Special
Das East West Hotel Basel.

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East West Hotel

Spring Feelings

Good to know.

    • Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel (only open on Easter Sunday)
    • Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (closed on Easter Monday)
    • Augusta Raurica
    • Basler PapiermĂźhle (closed on Good Friday)
    • Cartoonmuseum Basel (closed on Good Friday)
    • Feuerwehrmuseum Basel (only open on Easter Sunday)
    • Fondation Beyeler
    • HEK (Haus der Elektronischen KĂźnste) (closed on Easter Monday)
    • Historisches Museum Basel – BarfĂźsserkirche
    • Historisches Museum Basel – Haus zum Kirschgarten
    • Historisches Museum Basel – Musikmuseum
    • JĂźdisches Museum der Schweiz (closed on Good Friday and Saturday)
    • Kunsthalle Basel (closed on Good Friday)
    • Kunstmuseum Basel | Hauptbau
    • Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau
    • MĂźhlemuseum
    • MUKS – Museum Kultur & Spiel Riehen (closed on Good Friday)
    • Museum Kleines Klingental (closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday)
    • Museum Tinguely (closed on Good Friday)
    • Museum der Kulturen Basel
    • Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
    • S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum (closed on Good Friday)
    • Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel
    • Vitra Design Museum

  • Most of the shops in the city centre will be open as usual on Saturday, 30 March 2024, but will remain closed on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. Anyone not wishing to forego the pleasure of shopping during the holidays will find tips here for shopping on Sunday.