Basel Museum Night 2008

For such a small town (~150,000 people), Basel has over 35 terrific museums to visit and they are all open from 6pm-2am on Museum Night. We took it easy and saw only two new ones this year: the Firefighter Museum and the Pharmacy Museum. The fire museum had terrific displays of old ladders, buckets, fire hydrants, fire trucks, helmets, etc. The 3-man bike from 1899 was of particular note. The pharmacy museum made us thankful to live in modern times. There were many jars and bottles of things like frog tongues and dog teeth that made you wonder if it was a voodoo shop or a animal center. See Museum Night pictures from the last three years here.