Ask a Museum Day 2023
Last year for Ask a Museum Day 2022 we introduced you to the Heritage Team which at the time had some fresh additions to the team, Ben as...
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Museum of Fire Heritage Team
- Aug 14
- 4 min
New and Noteworthy Exhibit
We are excited to bring you one of our most recent exhibits New and Noteworthy. To showcase the vast collection we have at the Museum of...
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Museum of Fire Heritage Team
- May 1
- 4 min
Museum of Fire Restoration Project Shortlisted for National Trust Heritage Award
The Museum of Fire is proud to have been shortlisted in the 2023 National Heritage Awards in the category of Conservation – Interiors and...
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MOF Team
- Jan 19
- 5 min
Museum of Fire 2022 Art Competition Winner Announced!
At the start of 2022 our team at the Museum of Fire selected “Floods” as the theme of that year’s art competition. In the previous two...
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Heritage Manager
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
Celebrating our Connections with Japan
On Friday 3 June, the Museum of Fire held a formal opening of the Celebrating our Connections with Japan exhibition. The new exhibition...
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Heritage Manager
- Mar 22, 2022
- 4 min
A Tale of Three Cities: Penrith, Fujieda and Hakusan
The Museum has all sorts of fascinating objects from all around the world in the collection. Each has its own story shaped by where it...
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MOF Team
- Aug 3, 2021
- 4 min
Working from Home - Lockdown 2021
An Update from our CEO Belinda When our team scheduled a CEO update for this week, we were anticipating a mammoth blog filled with...
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Guest Author
- Jun 16, 2021
- 3 min
How did the Museum of Fire end up in a Powerhouse in Penrith?
-Story by Bill Rowlings OAM It was all the doing of the first female to take on a senior role in fire brigade management in NSW. In 1982,...
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CEO
- May 18, 2021
- 5 min
International Museum Day - The Museum of Fire One Year After Re-Opening
Today, 18 May 2021, is International Museum Day; an event celebrated annually by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). This...
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Museum of Fire Engagement Officer
- Mar 15, 2021
- 3 min
Sustaining the Firies – The Mobile ‘Canteen’ (1942 Ford 21W)
Did you know? The Women’s Fire Auxiliary (WFA), established in the 1940s, was primarily formed to aid the NSW Fire Brigade on the home...
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