Feuerwehrmuseum Nürnberg, Firefighting museum in Germany
The Feuerwehrmuseum Nürnberg is a specialized museum documenting the history of fire protection and firefighting in the city. It displays vehicles, equipment, and documents from different periods at a historic location.
The collection grew out of the Nuremberg fire brigade's own historical holdings, and in 2000 the Förderverein Nürnberger Feuerwehr-Museum e. V. was founded to support it; by 2015 the association had around 250 members. From 2012 to summer 2013 the museum at Jakobsplatz 20 underwent a fundamental renovation and redesign. Its oldest pieces include stock syringes and documents from the 15th century.
The collection began with the Förderverein Nürnberger Feuerwehr-Museum e. V., founded in 2000, which by 2015 had around 250 members supporting the holdings. Among the oldest items are hand pumps and documents from the 15th century and a piece of Nuremberg's first wooden water main. The museum occupies about 250 m² in Feuerwache 3 at Jakobsplatz 20.
The collection is housed in Feuerwache 3 at Jakobsplatz 20. It opens only on the first Saturday of each month from 1 pm to 5 pm, and groups can book special guided tours. The large vehicles, trailers and horse-drawn apparatus are kept in depots such as the Kongresshalle and cannot be viewed.
The large exhibits — vehicles, trailers, hand pumps, horse-drawn rigs, steam pumps, motorcycles, fire carts and historic ladders — cannot be viewed: they are kept in depots such as the Kongresshalle Nürnberg and the former Unterpflasterstrecke, closed to the public. Only the roughly 250 m² collection at Feuerwache 3 is on show.
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