• Stairs at the entrance, as neither the museum nor the dinosaur hall has step-free access, so plan to carry the stroller
• Bring your own hammer for the Klopfplatz fossil site behind Frick station, open any time, up a steep gravel path
• Museum passes not accepted, though KulturLegi, Familienpass Basel and VMS members get reduced or free entry

The only museum in Switzerland showing a complete Plateosaurus skeleton, dug from a clay pit near Frick. Next to it is a predatory dinosaur found here in 2006 with its last meal still in its stomach, plus ammonites, ichthyosaur fossils and a film about how the dinosaurs were found.

Behind Frick station, the open-air Klopfplatz lets kids hammer fossil-rich limestone for shells and ammonites.