Shanghai Fire Museum

No. 229, Zhongshan West Road, is the command center and office building of the Shanghai Fire Rescue Corps. With its towering "watchtower" and circular helipad on top of the building, it has become a unique landmark building in the Hongqiao area of ​​Changning. Part of the 1st to 3rd floors of the building is designated as the "Shanghai Fire Museum". The museum currently has more than 21,000 collections, including many modern and contemporary Shanghai fire relics of great historical value, including early personal firefighting equipment, fire trucks and automated firefighting devices. In the 2,400 square meters of display area and 3 exhibition areas, the hazards of fire, escape skills, and firefighting knowledge are introduced through real objects, pictures, multimedia and other forms, showing the brilliant achievements of the gestation, maturity and development of Shanghai's urban firefighting cause. Watch, listen and learn, and add a bit of awe of "fire" and admiration for the firefighting cause.

The Shanghai Fire Museum is located next to the fire station in Changning District, Shanghai. If you don’t want to squeeze in with the crowds during the long holidays, the Shanghai Fire Museum is a place where you can kill time and gain knowledge. It introduces the history of firefighting and you can also learn escape skills.

There are 3 floors in total. There is a fire truck on the first floor. There is a cinema on the second floor, but it has a time slot. After we visited the third floor, we found that we had missed the time. So we couldn't see it and had to go back. There are many collections in the museum, including fire artifacts and paper materials and photos. The things are relatively comprehensive and detailed. It is a very meaningful place for learning.

This paper introduces the long history of fire culture and fire history in China. Among them, the ancient fire culture of how to make fire, how to use fire, and how to superstition fire god to avoid fire are explained in detail. With the progress of the dynasties, the ideas of fire prevention and extinguishing, organization, legal system and technology of the past dynasties are introduced step by step, showing the progress of scientific fire prevention from ancient times to the present. Secondly, in the experience Hall of fire prevention and disaster prevention located on the first floor of the underground, the lecturer introduced the fire protection concept and urban fire protection planning, building fire protection equipment, fire and earthquake emergency treatment knowledge of densely populated cities with a sand table lighting demonstration.

The Shanghai Fire Museum is such an awe-inspiring place! It not only comprehensively displays the evolution of firefighting history and the development of firefighting technology, but also, through vivid exhibitions and interactive experiences, allows us to deeply feel the fearlessness and dedication of firefighting heroes. It is really both informative and inspiring!

This two-hour visit to the Fire Museum was very beneficial. With a large number of pictures and real objects, we not only learned about the history of Shanghai's firefighting development, how it evolved from the original use of wooden barrels to put out fires, to foreign dragons, water guns, steam fire trucks, internal combustion engine fire trucks, to today's large modern fire trucks and mobile command vehicles, but also learned a lot of firefighting knowledge and escape skills through the explanations of the fire brigade uncles, firefighting skills demonstrations and our own experience of firefighting. It was so interesting!

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