firefighting museum

The station's former joinery workshop has been converted into a new firefighting museum.

Fire museums, also known as firefighting museums are prevalent throughout the world.

Indeed, the firefighting museum's many antiques include a 1730 hand pumper and fire helmet, both said to have been used by Franklin.

The Firemen's Home, built in 1892 for needy volunteer firemen, shares its grounds with a firefighting museum chockablock with silver-plated parade carriages and bulbous steam pumpers.

Senator Charles J. Fuschillo Jr., a Long Island Republican, gave $100,000 to a Nassau County firefighting museum for a diorama explaining household fire safety.

The Gulotta-era vision for the area became Museums at Mitchel, a cluster that would include a refurbished children's museum, a firefighting museum, a science and technology museum and a hand-carved carousel circa 1915.

New Jersey is the only state in America without a statewide firefighting museum, and we could use one, because Ernest Day, the original owner of Great Eastern Fire Apparatus of Dunellen, donated a lot of trucks to the state when he died.

There are plans for a science and technology museum, a firefighting museum and a carousel in the same complex, and Ed Smits, president of the Museums at Mitchel, said various groups have expressed interest in opening art, automotive, motion picture and space museums on Museum Row.

In 2008 the Exempt Fireman's Association (Exempts), a fraternal local volunteer firefighters' group founded by Booth in 1886, proposed that the building be reused as a firefighting museum and fire safety education center, due to what its members feel is a lack of awareness of the latter among the city's residents.