Can older kids visit on their own?

From 13, yes. Children up to 12 need to come with an adult.

Can we bring the bike trailer inside?

No, bike trailers are not allowed in the museum.

Where do we buy tickets?

At the museum's ticket office when you arrive. There's no online booking, and the special exhibition costs nothing extra on top of regular entry.

Is there somewhere to eat?

Yes, the museum's Ristorante La Sosta keeps the museum's hours, and you can eat there without a museum ticket. On the first Sunday of the month it serves a homemade breakfast from 10am to 3pm.

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Teddy: From Legend to Lifestyle at the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Name: Teddy: From Legend to Lifestyle at the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel
Start: 2026-02-28
End: 2027-01-31T23:59:59
Location: Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

When: Through Jan 31, 2027
Ages: All ages
Price: Up to 16 free, from CHF 7

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ExhibitionVorstädte

Where

Vorstädte, Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Ages

All ages

Setting

Indoors

What you need to know

Hands-on corners between the cases: a giant plush bear to hug and a teddy first-aid station
The whole toy museum comes with it: one of the world's largest collections of historic teddies, dolls and toy shops, at no extra charge
Program days included in admission: bear crafts on Good Bear Day and Sunday teddy films, no booking

About

A whole special exhibition on the teddy bear, inside a toy museum that holds one of the world's largest collections of historic teddies. It traces the bear from old legends and Basel's own Bear Dance to the 1907 teddy craze, Winnie-the-Pooh, Paddington and the Haribo Goldbear. Kids can hug a giant plush bear and play at a teddy first-aid station between the glass cases.

Schedule

Sun, Dec 6

11am–12:12pm
Teddy cinema: Teddy's Christmas
Screened in German. Basli, the museum mascot, visits on first Sundays.
2pm–3:12pm
Teddy cinema: Teddy's Christmas
Second screening, in German.

Kids up to 16 free, adults CHF 7

Dates & times

Through 31 Jan 2027

Tue-Sun10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Open daily in December, Mondays included.

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Where it is

Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel

Steinenvorstadt 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

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