New York City Fire Museum

The museum cares for over 10,000 objects as well as an archive of records, ephemera and photographs estimated in the tens of thousands of pieces celebrating the history of the fire service and the FDNY.

In November 2015 the museum was granted an Absolute Charter by the Board of Regents of the New York State Department of Education.

This location made it much easier for the general public to visit the impressive array of artifacts exhibited on two floors of the firehouse.

The FDNY embarked on a campaign to raise the necessary funding to convert the vacant beaux-arts firehouse at 278 Spring Street originally built for Engine Company 30 in 1904 into a state-of-the-art museum.

This memorial includes artifacts recovered from the World Trade Center site, as well as a monument commemorating each firefighter who made the Supreme Sacrifice.

[6] The collection is home to firefighting artifacts and equipment dating back to the 1650s, such as carriages, engines, fire marks, buckets, trumpets, helmets, lanterns, rattles, and uniforms.

Groups are shown an age-targeted video in a classroom setting and are then taken to a mock residence where they experience what they must do to escape from a smoke-filled room.

In 2018, the mock residence was completely renovated, with funds provided by Turner Construction Company, Carnegie Corporation, FM Global, and the NY Community Trust, into the Fire Safety Learning Center.