Educational event, city tour

Mission and colonialism in Basel: city tour in March

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

March 30, 2025, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Various places in Basel remind us of the city's special missionary history and its international links with colonialism. What entanglements of the past continue to have an impact today? The tour makes this visible in the city.

With Claudia Buess, historian, Team Education, Mission 21 and
Alexandra Flury-Schölch, Theologian, 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 is March 27, 2025. For a place on the waiting list, please contact monika.dipietrantonio@mission-21.org directly or register for the next city tour on June 1.

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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