Future History vs Basel Audio Tours

Welcome to Future History. Point your smartphone or tablet at an interesting location and take a look into the past through your display. Features: - Choose a place on the map, start the navigation and dive into the past. - Merge past eras with the here and now through augmented reality and superimpositions in the right perspective. - Start audio and text to learn more about the hidden stories of this place. - Add your preferred pictures to the collection, write comments and share them with your friends. - Start a virtual journey through time from your sofa. For many places, there are interactive image sliders between historic images and current photos with identical angles. Partners: Cities and tour agencies are our partners and use Future History - for group tours to superimpose historical views on location and as a lasting memory of the guided tour - for individuals and small groups as a self-guided tour with and audioguide feature, route planner and superimpositions on location. Authors: You can become an author, too, by uploading your own historical images and by helping make hidden stories visible. Here’s just a few good reasons to do so: transparent urban planning, commitment for the cityscape, monument conservation and a sound historic centre, interest in architecture and urban history as well as realizing educational projects. Find more information under www.future-history.eu

The free Basel Audio Tours app turns a walk through the old town into an audio experience! On five exciting tours, you are accompanied by well-known personalities from Basel's history - they tell their stories with humour, anecdotes and historical depth. Whether humanist, artist or alchemist - each voice brings a unique perspective on the city, brings historical places to life and invites you to rediscover Basel and its neighbourhoods. In entertaining contributions from their lives, they comment on their surroundings and favourite places and take you on a journey through time. Basel Audio Tours combines in-depth knowledge with modern technology and enables a new way of experiencing the city - entertaining, interactive and completely flexible in terms of time. THE TOURS AT A GLANCE ● Erasmus of Rotterdam, the most important humanist of his time, accompanies you to the most historic place in Basel: the cathedral hill. ● Paracelsus, the physician and alchemist, takes you on an energetic tour from Münsterhügel to Spalenhügel, where the Pharmacy Museum awaits you at the end. ● Jean Tinguely, the mischievous inventor of moving art, lets you see Basel through his playful, ironic eyes - from the vibrant centre of the Old Town to the tranquil Spalenhügel. ● Irène Zurkinden, the freedom-loving painter and cosmopolitan, accompanies you on an inspiring walk over the Spalenhügel, past her former studio to the Spalentor. ● Hans Holbein the Younger, the celebrated master of Renaissance portraiture, takes you on a journey through artistic Basel - from the Kunstmuseum across both banks of the Rhine to the lively Kleinbasel. WHAT AWAITS YOU 5 varied tours through Basel's old town ● Exciting stories and personalities ● Historically sound content, told in a lively, entertaining and vivid way ● Optional: augmented reality elements in the Erasmus tour for even more immersion ● Ideal for locals and guests from Germany and abroad (available in German, English, French and Italian) ● Freely selectable routes with different durations PRACTICAL FOR TRAVELLING The tours last between 60 and 120 minutes, all start centrally at Marktplatz (corner of Freie Strasse) and can be experienced at your own pace. The app is free and can be used offline and is suitable for both individuals and small groups.