Specials

OPEN HOUSE BASEL
SPECIAL (DE/EN)
Sunday, 10 May 2026
11 am, Vitra Campus

Every year in early summer, Open House Basel invites you to explore the city and its fabulous architecture when more than one hundred buildings open their doors to visitors. At the Vitra Design Museum, you can come behind the scenes on Sunday, 10 May. Explore the Vitra Campus’s inner workings and get a new angle on its unique
architecture. Find out the hidden places in and around the iconic buildings and discover the stories that the Vitra Campus has to tell.

Programme

11 am Short tour of the Vitra Design Museum Office (GER)
12 pm Short tour of the Vitra Design Museum Office (EN)
1 pm Short tour of the Vitra Design Museum Office (GER)

Fire Station visit with Ask Me guides: 11:30 am–2:30 pm

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Verner Panton: Form, Colour, Space
OPENING & MUSIC (EN)
Friday, 22 May 2026
6 pm, Vitra Schaudepot

He hung chairs from the ceiling and transformed interiors into colourful playgrounds: few designers have shaped design in the second half of the twentieth century as decisively as Verner Panton (1926-1998). To mark the 100th anniversary of the Danish designer's birth, the Vitra Design Museum is presenting a comprehensive retrospective about his work at the Vitra Schaudepot.

The exhibition »Verner Panton: Form, Colour, Space« illuminates Panton's work in its full breadth, from iconic designs such as the Panton Chair, the Cone Chair, and the Flowerpot lamp to visionary living landscapes as well as rarely shown furniture and architectural projects. A walk-in reconstruction (Edition 1/8) of the legendary Fantasy Landscape, 1970, invites visitors to immerse themselves in Panton's sculptural, colour-saturated worlds. The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the Verner Panton Design AG, the exclusive owner of all rights to Verner Panton's oeuvre.

The Opening on 22 May 2026 provides a unique opportunity to be among the first to view the exhibition. Dive into an immersive experience of intense colours and organic shapes and rediscover Panton’s visionary pop utopias. Join us in celebrating the designer’s centenary and enjoy an evening of music, drinks, and nibbles in the inspiring setting of the Vitra Schaudepot.

Please register here until 18 May 2026.