• Vehicles not on view: the emergency vehicles and vintage fire trucks cannot be visited, so the visit is about equipment rather than trucks
• Not wheelchair accessible, and the collection spreads over several floors, so a stroller will not get far
• Sunday afternoons only: the museum is closed Monday to Saturday, so plan it as a weekend outing

The Swiss Fire Brigade Museum follows how firefighting equipment developed, with objects dating back as far as the 13th century. Its several floors run from medieval hand-operated spraying devices to modern oxygen breathing sets, collected across Switzerland and mostly from the Basel region.

Kids who are into fire engines and old machines get plenty of historic equipment to study up close.