Aurora Regional Fire Museum in Aurora, IL 60505

53 N Broadway
Aurora, IL 60505United States

630.892.1572

Hours:Thu-Sat 1pm-4pm

Cost:Suggested donation: Adults $5; Children $3

Ages:All Ages

Located in Aurora's old Central Fire Station, the Aurora Regional Fire Museum features a variety of interactive exhibits designed to educate and entertain children, families, and firefighters. Museum visitors can pass a fire bucket, crank an old-fashioned siren, and check out equipment that dates all the the way back to the 1850s.

The museum's collection includes photographs, fire badges, helmets, nozzles, axes, ladders, toy fire engines, and more unusual items, including the Illinois State Championship "Buck-Horn Trophy" won by the Aurora Fire Department, containers full of hay and oats found under the second floor during the renovation of the old Central Fire Station, the original brass switch plate cover from the Company Number 2 bunk room, and the original pizza oven used by the Aurora Firefighters at the central station to start the "pizza-night" tradition.

The museum also has an amphitheater than can be rented for birthday parties.

message from Aurora Regional Fire Museum:

The Aurora Regional Fire Museum is located in Aurora's old Central Fire Station. The museum is open to the public regular hours, and features a variety of interactive exhibits designed to educate and entertain children, families, and firefighters.

The new exhibit, "Getting There, Getting Water, Getting Rescued" traces the evolution of the tools and technology used by firefighters. Visitors can pass a leather fire bucket from the early 1800s. Snap closed an authentic "quick-hitch" fire horse collar. Discover what was found under the floor boards of the old central fire station. Marvel at the strange looking Vajen-Bader smoke mask. Explore the differences in fire hose nozzles. Learn why some pieces of fire apparatus are called combinations, triples, quads, or quints. See and hear how modern fire engines clear the streets with sirens, air horns, and devices that change traffic lights green. Watch vintage film clips of firefighters and fire engines on one of five video touch-screens. All this in addition to five pieces of fire apparatus on display in a fully restored 1894 fire station.

The Aurora Regional Fire Museum is located at 53 N. Broadway - at the corner of New York and Broadway (Rt. 25) in downtown Aurora. Ample parking is located behind our building in a lot accessible off of LaSalle Street.