Boston Fire Museum

This is very small, but it’s free and kids get a free hat for visiting. Nice stop if you are also visiting the Boston Children Museum!

This is a wonderful museum, with lots of interesting «stuff». It is clearly a labor of love, put together by people from the fire service, not museum people. The volunteers who work the museum are full of first hand knowledge and truly are very good at passing on their knowledge. We had a great time going over the exhibits with a recently retired 2^nd generation fire fighter. It is a small museum, located in a former fire house that operated from the days of horse drawn steamers to the later part of the 20^th century with exhibits covering the entire period. Well worth going out of your way to see. A wonderful place!

Went as an adult while out on a wandering-​around date on a Saturday. We both learned a lot of really neat tidbits. The staff/​volunteers (?) were as welcoming of us as we saw them being to the kids who were there with their families (though we didn’t get hats) and were very knowledgeable about the contents of the museum. We had a great time and learned a lot.
It’s not a big museum, we probably only spent around 30 – 45 minutes there.

We had an enjoyable time here celebrating my daughter’s 4^th birthday with all her little friends! The museum folks were good to work with — they were able to confirm our booking quickly, recommended a good place to order pizza and subs (Al’s Pizza and Grill in South Boston), suggested the agenda of events, and acted as host. There is a large party room on the second floor with a smaller adjacent room with a table and sofas, and a spacious kitchen fully outfitted with a fridge, freezer, sink, kitchen utensils etc. We had over 20 adults and 20 kids and it never felt crowded. The kids were also able to interact with the exhibits downstairs on the 1^st floor, where they reenacted a fire scene and let the kids carry the hose to «extinguish» it. It was a neat little place for the adults too!

Great little musem and FREE. There are so great old fire trucks and apparatus on display along with Arthur Fielder’s fire dept. collection. We met a very nice guy there who told us some interesting things and completely enjoyed stumbling into this old fire house/​museum. Right near the children’s museum. Well worth stopping in for a visit.