Fire and Rescue Museum of the Kursk Region

The Fire and Rescue Museum of the Kursk region can be visited in the city of Kursk. It was opened in 1995. In 2007, the museum was moved to another building. Currently, the museum is located on the first floor of the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Kursk region. The museum includes four exhibition halls and one lecture hall. In the museum you can get acquainted with the history of fire from the end of the XVII century to the present day.

The area of the museum is 254 square meters, 210 square meters falls on the exhibition halls. In the exhibition halls of the museum you can see documents on the history of the Kursk fire protection, the form of firefighters with insignia, the layout of the 2nd department of the fire truck, the fire manual pump of the early XX century, models of fire trucks, electrified dioramas "Lightning Protection" and "Fire in the Kursk noble assembly", as well as much more.

Also, the exposition of the museum gives an idea of the capabilities of all structural units of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Kursk region, about ways to prevent and eliminate emergency situations. There are expositions dedicated to the EMERCOM of Russia, its education and activities, the development of the museum, its honored guests.

In the lecture hall of the museum, designed for 42 seats, videos about the Kursk fires are shown.