The Shanghai Fire Museum is located next to the Shanghai Fire Bureau on Zhongshan West Road. Here, you can see various real objects and models of old-fashioned fire trucks and fire-fighting equipment. You can also learn rich knowledge about fire prevention and escape and understand the development history of Shanghai’s fire protection cause. Whether you are an ordinary citizen or a student, you can come here to popularize fire protection knowledge and broaden your horizons.
The museum has a total of three floors, but the exhibition hall is not very large. On the first floor are displayed models and real objects of fire trucks and engineering vehicles. Among them are exhibits such as the original 1930 wooden mechanical ladder truck and a scale model of the 1908 MerryWeather steam fire truck. The appearance is peculiar and retro. The second floor mainly focuses on fire prevention, escape, and first aid knowledge, as well as more knowledge about combustion principles. The highlight of this floor is the citizen escape experience project, which allows participants to learn the correct way to escape from a fire scene through personal experience. In addition, there are some high-tech interactive multimedia exhibits such as a dynamic 4D cinema virtual fire scene reproduction and a virtual fire science laboratory. The exhibits on the third floor are even more abundant. In addition to Shanghai’s fire protection history, many old-fashioned fire-fighting equipment and old photos of Shanghai are also on display. You can see the relatively complete and long-standing wooden double-bar manpower pump for folk fire fighting in the late Qing Dynasty preserved in Shanghai, as well as a fire hydrant made in 1881 that appeared on the streets of Shanghai two years earlier than the Yangshupu Waterworks in Shanghai. In addition, it should be noted that the museum is closed for lunch from 11:30 to 13:30. Please arrange your time reasonably. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday all year round, 09:30 – 11:30, 14:00 – 16:30; closed all day on Monday all year round; open on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day, 09:30 – 11:30, 14:00 – 16:30. Admission stops at 11:00 in the morning and 16:00 in the afternoon. Tips: Visitors with pets are not allowed to enter the museum. Visitors with food and beverages are not allowed to enter the museum. Smoking is strictly prohibited in the museum. Please do not make noise in the exhibition hall and visit civilizedly. Minors and the elderly and disabled people with limited mobility must be accompanied by relatives and friends when visiting.Shanghai Fire Museum
The Shanghai Fire Museum is located next to the Shanghai Fire Bureau on Zhongshan West Road. Here, y[...]
