Feuerwehrmuseum Basel
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The Swiss Fire Brigade Museum Basel presents the development of fire fighting from the 13th to the 20th century, with a special focus on Basel.
Basel, as the home of one of the oldest fire departments, was left to realize the idea of an actual fire department museum in the summer of 1957 after years of preparation. Since 1967 it has been recognized as the Swiss Fire Brigade Museum Basel and is dedicated to the technical development of the fire department.
Nowadays, it is taken for granted that firefighters have always had the best equipment and training. The fire department museum shows with which inadequate equipment and under which difficult conditions the fire fighting teams of that time had to fight in the past. It was a long way until unified and disciplined firefighting corps were formed and brought to the present level by the experience, inventions and technical progress.
The objects on display go back historically far beyond the founding of the pompier corps and in some cases date back to the 13th century: The Swiss Fire Brigade Museum displays everything from medieval hand-operated fire engines to modern circulating oxygen apparatus on various floors. The exhibits on display come from all over Switzerland, some from abroad, but mainly from the Basel region.
Unfortunately, there is not enough space in the Lützelhof to present the attractive vintage fire engines to the public, such as the self-propelled automobile steam engine from 1905, the only one in the world still in working order. It is currently undergoing restoration until approximately the end of 2019. Other antiques can be seen at the nearby Mulhouse Fire Brigade Museum; incidentally, the two museums complement each other perfectly.
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Contact
Schweizerisches Feuerwehrmuseum Basel
Spalenvorstadt 11
4051
Basel
Switzerland
Phone
+41 (0)61 268 14 00
fw-Museum@jsd.bs.ch
rettung-bs.ch
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