Educational event

Mission and colonialism in Basel: city tour in April

Name: Mission and colonialism in Basel: city tour in April
Start: 1970-01-01T00:00:00+0000

April 21, 2024, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Basel

Various places in Basel recall the city's special mission history and its international involvement with colonialism. The guided tour makes the colonial history of the city visible and its points of contact with the Basel mission. Which entanglements of the past continue to have an effect today?

With Christian Weber, Church Historian, Education Team, Mission 21
and Claudia Buess, Historian, Education Team, Mission 21

Guided tour in German

Meeting point: Main entrance Missionhaus, Missionstrasse 21, 4055 Basel

Contribution towards expenses CHF 20
CHF 15 for persons in training

Registration deadline until April 19, 2024

This city tour has been well received - by the public and the media. For example in the article in the Kirchenbote Basel-Stadt:

► Article about a past city tour on Kirchenbote-online: "On the trail of colonialism in Basel"

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