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.
Information
- Location:
- Aurora, IL, 60505
- Phone:
- 630-892-1572
- Thurs - Sat:
- 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Events
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- Gingerbread FIREhouse Contest ...
Hosted by the Aurora Regional Fire ...
Saturday, November 28 at 1:00pm
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Top FIVE reasons to enter a gingerbread FIREhouse in our contest? 1. Cash prizes... 2. Family-friendly activity for the holidays... 3. Bragging-rights... 4. A new (assuming you've not made a gingerbread FIREhouse before) challenge... and -- number 5. The joy that comes with ...supporting a fun, family-friendly, local museum..... ~ wink! http://www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org/
Aurora Regional Fire Museum A panel of experts, including An Aurora fire chief, a local architect, and Bob Brougham of the North Aurora's Cakery, (and a competitor on TLC's "Ultimate Cake Off!") will be judging the ARFM's FIREhouse Gingerbread Contest entries. They will be using the following criteria: Adherence to Theme; Creativity and Originality; Level of Precision and Skill; and Overall Appearance
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
There is a fantastic gingerbread FIREhouse pictured on page 92 of this book:
http://books.google.com/books?id=7VKPRjy
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
With the deadline just FOUR days away, I worries us that we've received NO "confirmed" registrations for our Gingerbread contest. We've heard rumors, and a lot of folks want to see the FIREhouses, but.... Please SIGN UP TODAY!
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The Aurora Regional Fire Museum will host a gingerbread FIREhouse contest, exhibition, and charity raffle for the holidays. Participants are invited to compete in one of three categories:
Aurora Regional Fire Museum Hurry - there are only seven days left to register for our Gingerbread FIREhouse contest. See the link below for all the information:
Source: www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org
The Aurora Regional Fire Museum will host a gingerbread FIREhouse contest, exhibition, and charity raffle for the holidays. Participants are invited to compete in one of three categories:
Aurora Regional Fire Museum JUST IN at the ARFM's Hose Tower Gift Shop -- Show your Aurora Pride by displaying one of these 4x5" stickers in your car window.
Source: www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org
The Hose Tower Gift Shop The Aurora Regional Fire Museum's Hose Tower Gift Shop has a variety of products for you to commemorate your visit, honor the firefighters in your life, or encourage future firefighters to be.
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Mundelein Firefighters Association's Annual Swap Meet. This is the largest swap meet in the Midwest dedicated to fire equipment and will feature vendors and buyers from all over the country buying and selling books, magazines, collectibles, t-shirts, sweatshirts, toys, tools, equipment and much, much, more.
Held at the... Mundelein High School, 1350 W. Hawley St. Mundelein, IL. Doors open at 8am....
For more information - see:
http://www.mundeleinfire.org/index.php/n
The ARFM will be CLOSED so that staff might attend, market, and network at this national gathering of firefighters and fire memorabilia collectors.Read More
Held at the... Mundelein High School, 1350 W. Hawley St. Mundelein, IL. Doors open at 8am....
For more information - see:
http://www.mundeleinfire.org/index.php/n
The ARFM will be CLOSED so that staff might attend, market, and network at this national gathering of firefighters and fire memorabilia collectors.Read More
Time:8:00AM Saturday, October 31st
Location:1350 W. Hawley St - Mundelein High School
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Grab your sugar, and spice, and everything nice -- and run, run, fast as you can to enter the...
http://www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org/
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Aurora Regional Fire Museum • PO Box 1782 • Aurora, IL 60507 Phone: (630) 892-1572 • e-mail: ARFMinfo@aol.com
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Join us - Tuesday - October 27, 2009, 6:30pm, for a free presentation on the the Great Chicago Fire of 1871... Sponsored by Fox Valley Reads and the Aurora Regional Fire Museum
http://www.facebook.com/AuroraRegionalFi
A Presentation & Tour of the Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Location:53 N. Broadway
Time:6:30PM Tuesday, October 27th
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Visitors today photographed our apparatus bells wanting to illustrate Edgar Allen Poe's poem "the bells" ....
See Verse III - http://www.eapoe.org/WorkS/poems/bellsg.
"Hear the loud alarum bells - Brazen bells! - What a tale of terror,
now, their turbulency tells! - In the startled ear of night - How they
scream out their affright! . . . "
Source: www.eapoe.org
The Bells (Sartain's Union Magazine, November 1849)
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
Saturday, September 26, 2009, the Aurora Regional Fire Museum will participate in the fifth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian magazine. A celebration of culture, learning and the dissemination of knowledge, Smithsonian’s Museum Day reflects the spirit of the magazine, and emulates the free-admission policy o...f the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington, DC-based properties. Doors will be open free of charge to Smithsonian magazine readers and Smithsonian.com visitors at museums and cultural institutions nationwide.Read More
Source: www.smithsonian.com
Enjoy Free Museum Admission on Saturday September 26, 2009 - Check out Museums in your area that are participating in Museum Day 2009, now over 1,200 Museums!
Aurora Regional Fire Museum Hosted a group of 23 Students from Aurora University's Intro to Musuem Studies class. Had fun seeing (and hopefuly engaging) future of the museum professionals! . . . Asked them to "fan" and post about us on Facebook - wish I could offer extra credit to those who do! ~WINK!~
Aurora Regional Fire Museum The ARFM will be closed today (Friday Sept 11) as we are hosting our first wedding. The groom is a firefighter, and the bride is a dispatcher
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
For information about hosting your next wedding, birthday party, or event at the Aurora Regional Fire Museum -- see our website:
http://www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org/
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Whether it is a kid's firehouse themed birthday or a corporate meeting in our spacious "Hayloft" theater, the Aurora Regional Fire Museum can accommodate your special group or event.
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Aurora Regional Fire Museum wrote on The Great Chicago Fire of 1871:'s Wall.
