New House
Le chaim!
The Jewish Museum Will Move to Vesalgasse 5.
The Jewish Museum of Switzerland is moving into a new, larger building at the Vesalgasse 5, 4051 Basel. The new location will house the permanent and temporary exhibitions, the workshop and event rooms, the library and the office.
The museum’s supporting organisation, the Association for the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, has signed a long-term lease for the building, which was built in the nineteenth century as a tobacco warehouse.
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Milestones
- September 2023: The Building Inspectorate of the Canton of Basel grants the Jewish Museum of Switzerland planning permission for Vesalgasse 5.
- June 2023: Our architect, Roger Diener (Diener & Diener Architekten), is known for his collaboration with artists. For the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, he has planned a special collaboration, currently with the artist Frank Stella. The work of art “Jeziory” (1973) will adorn the façade of the building at Vesalgasse 5. The work is part of the “Polish Villages” series, which was inspired by the destruction of Poland’s wooden synagogues.
- 15 May 2023: Marking of the storage cabinets
- 2 May 2023: Development of security measures for the new building
- 18 April 2023: Assessment of the wood stock and dispatch of samples to the laboratory
- 15 December 2022: New building plans submitted to the Planning Office
- June 2022: Start of collaboration with the architectural firm Diener & Diener.
Fundraising campaign
Become a sponsor!
Dedicate your friends or family a star flower in the shape of the Jewish Museum’s new logo — at Fr. 5000 (bronze), Fr. 10 000 (silver) or Fr. 20 000 (gold), and your chosen name will appear on a decorative wall of thanks in the new building.
With this gesture, you will become an everlasting part of the museum’s history and of the Jewish history of Switzerland, which was written by the likes of Walter Benjamin, Anne Frank, Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein and Rosa Luxemburg.
Send us an email with the subject «Star Flower» to:
naomi.lubrich@juedisches-museum.ch
or contact us by phone:
+41 61 261 95 14.
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