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Fire Museum of Maryland
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Established1971 (1971)
Location1301 York Road, Lutherville, MD, 21093
DirectorStephen Heaver
Nearest parkingFree on-site parking
Websitehttp://www.firemuseummd.org/

Founded in 1971, the Fire Museum of Maryland is a fire museum located in Lutherville, Maryland near Baltimore, Maryland. With a collection of over forty pieces of firefighting apparatus, the Fire Museum of Maryland offers interprets the history of the urban fire service in the U.S. for visitors and through school programming. The museum began as the private collection of the Stephen G. Heaver family collected over forty years.[1]

The museum holds an annual "Lantern Night" program where docents and museum staff tell stories from the Battle of Baltimore and the War of 1812 while dressed in period clothing.[2]

References

  1. ^ "About Us". Fire Museum of Maryland. 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  2. ^ "Lantern Night at Fire Museum of Maryland a lesson in history". The Baltimore Sun. 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2016-03-06.