The Swiss fire brigade Museum in Basel demonstrates to everyone the history of fire fighting: different tools used at different times, and technology, created to more effectively address all kinds of fires. Here you will see all of the ways of fighting fires and firefighters - from medieval manual syringe to modern devices circulation of oxygen, a variety of devices for notification of fires, alarms, shape fire officers used in different years, as well as transport, which transported fire safety equipment.

Unfortunately, the Museum does not have sufficient area to accommodate all the major exhibits relating to the history of technical progress of fire protection, but a lot of this can be seen, for example, self-driving car steam fire pump 1905 production, which is still fully operational and is the only one in the world today. The most ancient exhibits in the Museum's collection that belong to the 13th century.

From January 2010 here you can also see the mock-UPS to illustrate the possible further development of fire-fighting activity. special robots firefighters.

The Museum exists since 1957. For ten years he was called "the Basel Museum of fire protection". Since 1967 he referred to as "the Swiss Museum of fire protection". The Museum is sponsored by the Basel fire service, which is one of the oldest in the country. However, the Museum is not considered a state enterprise and is under the control of the Canton.