Houston Fire Museum, Firefighting museum in United States of America

The Houston Fire Museum occupies the original Fire Station No. 7 and displays equipment, vehicles, and objects from firefighting history. The exhibits explain how techniques and methods for fighting fires have changed over the decades.

Fire Station No. 7, Houston's oldest firehouse, was designed in Romanesque style by Olle J. Lorehn and completed in January 1899. It was updated in the 1920s for motorized vehicles and remained a working fire station until 1968. After standing empty, it was fully restored in 1981 before opening as the Houston Fire Museum.

The museum keeps the local fire service's own record: antique and modern uniforms, uniform emblems, historic fire marks, and photographs of local and national events, among them the 1947 Texas City disaster. The building is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The entrance is the central arched doorway marked "CHIEF" at 2403, flanked by the two blue apparatus bay doors. Visitors can slide down a fire pole and sit in a fire engine cab. The building is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in Midtown Houston.

The 1912 American Automatic water tower with an American LaFrance engine in the collection is the only vehicle of its type the Houston Fire Department ever used. Visitors can also slide down a fire pole and sit in a fire engine cab.