Caricature & Cartoon Museum Basel, Comics museum in Basel, Switzerland.

Cartoonmuseum Basel occupies the late Gothic house at St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, bought by the foundation in 1991 and restored and extended by Herzog & de Meuron; it reopened there in May 1996. The building holds a collection of over 12,000 works, shown in exhibitions devoted to a single artist or a current theme, from comics and graphic novels to caricature and animation.

The museum was founded in 1979 when collector Dieter Burckhardt wanted to make his private collection accessible to the public, with the first exhibition opening in 1980 at the St. Alban-Vorstadt location. Since then, it has grown into an internationally recognized institution for documenting and presenting this art form.

The museum's name tracks its history: opened in 1980 as Karikatur & Cartoon Museum Basel, renamed Cartoonmuseum Basel in 2009, and given the subtitle Zentrum für narrative Kunst in December 2023. With the Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst and the Christoph Merian Stiftung it runs the Nationale Symposien zur 9. Kunst, and its shop sells postcards, monographs and comics tied to each show.

The museum occupies the house at St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, which the foundation bought in 1991; Herzog & de Meuron restored it and added an extension, and the museum reopened there in May 1996. The library holds primary and secondary literature on comics, cartoons and caricature, and the shop sells postcards, monographs and comics updated with each exhibition. Guided tours, workshops and exhibition talks accompany the shows.

The museum's founder was Dieter Burckhardt (1914–1991), a Basel patron who wanted his private collection of caricatures and cartoons opened to a wider public; in 1979 he set up the Stiftung Sammlung Karikaturen & Cartoons, administered since by the Christoph Merian Stiftung. The first exhibition opened in 1980 at St. Alban-Vorstadt 9, before the move to number 28.