Great museum for kids! Tons of interactive components! My kiddos loved the bucket brigade activity, the discovery room, and getting to climb into the firetrucks. They also loved visiting with Molly, the museum's fire pup 🚒👩‍🚒

The FASNY Museum is beyond awesome. The quality of their apparatus collection is beyond amazing. There are over 90 to see. We were blown away at the with the friendly and knowledgeable staff. Sarah was so great to us. There is so much to see and really great activities for adults and children. The volunteer and 9/11 collection a must see. My Dad who has been a volunteer firefighter for 60 years, and I enjoyed ourselves immensely. It is one of the best collections in the United States. Highly recommend.

Many have mentioned the family friendly and it certainly had that, but my wife and I were very interested as adults in the displays. I was particularly interested in some of the older equipment. The 9/11 display was moving.

Visited in the morning, Friday I think it was, in late August. I don’t have any particular affinity or fascination with firefighting (just a lot of respect for the work), but I had a blast at this museum. It’s huge and there’s just tons to see and read. I would also add that this place really is fun for all ages. Our 3.5-year-old daughter loved doing some of the kids’ activities. We could easily have spent more time here - I think we stayed for about two hours. Friendly staff, quite good value for money. If we ever find ourselves back in the area, I would happily return here.

Great place for kids! There are a ton of interactive experiences including an obstacle course, firetrucks to climb into, and a fire brigade to put out a pretend fire. Spent about 2 hours here. We didn't get to see Molly the dalmatian this time.

The museum was amazing had a lot of fun and so did the kids took us about 2 hours to go through the whole museum.

Absolutely amazing, there is a well dedicated museum to those heroes and the equipment they’ve been using from the very beginning of the existence of firefighters. those machines are so amazing that play a fundamental role on the museum history. Every single machine is a piece of artwork, Absolutely recommended, excellent for all ages.

Great place for kids. Many interactive displays throughout the spaces and trucks to drive on the second floor.

We have been members of the Museum for a couple of years now. FASNY does so much to engage our community with really excellent programming for children on Saturdays, special events in the summer and trunk or treat at Halloween, the perennially fun Dalmatian Day, the afterschool program partnership with MC Smith Elementary school, just off the top of my head. This past weekend we had my son's fifth birthday party at the museum and it was a blast - the lead docent led the kids through a bunch of fun activities that engaged them and taught them a lot about firefighting. Bonus, everywhere she took us was interactive for little hands to touch and see and do -- we were a bucket brigade putting out a fire, then we could try on real fire gear and explore a few of the many trucks they have in their expansive and history-rich space, and shake off the flames with a stop, drop, and roll activity, and then we tried to pin the dalmatian on the fire truck. It was so sweet, so age-appropriate for our little ones, and the kids loved it. We always feel extremely lucky to have this resource in our backyard, but having our son's party at his favorite place was more special than we even imagined it to be. Many, MANY thanks to the museum staff for another great day, can't say enough nice things about them!!

A lot of Fire trucks , 911 memorbelia, and videos. A very child friendly place.

They have way more fire trucks than I thought, but you can only touch maybe 4 of them in a “children’s museum”? It’s definitely for older kids who can look but not touch. If your kid loves fire trucks, they will think this is great, but you’ll get the same experience at a local fire department and they may even let you touch something.

a bit pricey but kids had a lot of fun. There’s a lot for kids to do and learn. Adults also have a lot to interact and learn about the trucks. we had alot of fun!

Nice people. Incredible amount of displays. Some displays are too close to get a good look and too many signs, etc, in front of the vehicles.

This is an absolutely wonderful museum for both children and adults. We were there with our 6 year old grandson and spent over 2 hours there. There are so many interactive displays for children and informative ones for adults. The collection is wonderful. Children have opportunities to learn about all aspects of firefighting and the equipment through hands - on displays, physical challenges, scavenger hunts and actually sitting in fire trucks. There is even Molly the firehouse dalmatian. This is a gem of a museum.

Amazing place, awesome stories from the past of firefighting and the items were just awe inspiring. Been a firefighter myself for almost a year and learning the history of it was beyond words for enjoyment. I recommend this place to visit to anyone with friends, family or alone. Weather your interested in the concept or not you'll leave with a great sense of pride and more knowledge then you had before. Thank you for everything I learned and seen.

I am specifically reviewing their toddler and small child friendliness. we had lunch at the picnic table outside in the shade. it was super nice. pack all your trash, there are no garbage cans outside the museum. there is one once you enter. we pottied in the back of the car so we brought in no bags and I could have my hands free. good thing, no large bags allowed. they ask you hold their hand the whole time.... (what.) so I asked exactly where the interactive exhibit was and B lined to it. the first thing he saw was scissors and no other activity looked as intriguing, even to me. so we spent 20 gleeful minutes learning to cut paper firefighters. several exhibits are very language and concept driven, so be prepared to lecture. I thought it'd all be a little too abstract for my 2 year old who hasn't gotten to the "why" stage yet, so I skipped a lot of it. I also found a lot of activities that seemed welcoming, only to read sentences of rules once we arrived at it. (one such pictured). the simplest exhibits were the best imo. stop drop and roll was fun. it's just a little carpet with a hard low boundary and a little leather vest they can put on. Also in the back there are 4 firetrucks they can climb into and pretend play. but like you know, make sure they don't touch the outside. 😑 bathrooms are good, boys room with a ground urinal, but no low sink or steps to get up to the sink independently. This place seems great for older children practicing their compliance skills, who are not in peak exploratory phase. The place isn't terribly accommodating for neurodiverse abilities, so you'll want to leave at the first signs of them beginning to get frustrated.

Always heard about this place and never went. Until a nearby station scheduled a bus trip. So glad I went and will be attending again for sure! On top of meeting many retired firefighters in the home next door, it was the perfect trip for any firefighter and their family! Highly recommend a day trip to anyone in the business. Tons of history! If only those pieces could tell stories.

Brought my mother and my two little daughters. My daughters had a blast and were overwhelmed with the things to do. Oldest daughter (4) cannot stop talking about her experience. My mother plans on going back by herself because with all the kids stuff she really didn't have the opportunity to view the exhibits.

The trucks were cool but the rules were insane. They make you watch this intense video when you get there where they tell you don't touch anything and btw "see something say something", like this Podunk little museum is going to be attacked at any moment. They made us leave our diaper bag out front for our 4 month old because there might be a bomb in it or something. When she inevitably had a blow out, I literally went out to the lobby and snuck my bag in so I could change the diaper on their changing table that apparently you shouldn't use because you're not supposed to have the diaper bag to begin with. No one told these people that a real museum like the Smithsonian even lets you have a bag. Every 5 feet there was a posting of some arbitrary rule including a random sign halfway through the museum with 3 paragraphs about the need to wear shoes. There were no less than 500 do not touch signs (I'm not exaggerating!!). If it hadn't been for my 3 year old loving fire trucks I'd never bother. I'll finish this off by mentioning they are giving away "thin red line" pins. Look people, no one on the planet has philosophical disagreements with the firemen (except libertarians). It's a made up issue and the type of people pushing those pins are exactly the people who would expect there to be a firetruck terrorist lurking around every corner. TLDR: Hard pass.

Entertaining for my 3 year old grand daughter, u can go in 4 firetrucks, a Jr challenge area, inexpensive, extremely friendly staff.

This is a fantastic place to bring the little ones. We had a 3 year old and a 6 year old with us and they had an absolute blast!!! This certainly kid friendly. They have a kids fire 🔥 related experience area,a display area for children and the kids can sit in a real fire truck. They have uniforms and coats kid size they can wear. It was a daddy's photo opportunity heaven. They also have a lot of historical items to keep adults occupied. There's 2 floors with handicapped access. And handicapped restrooms. They have a gift shop with firefighters related toys and gifts that are reasonable. For what you get the admission price is well worth it. If you have a 3 to 8 year old that loves fire trucks and firefighters 🚒 this is the place to go.