The New York City Fire Museum’s mission is to Preserve, Celebrate & Educate. In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the historic response of the FDNY to unprecedented requests for emergency medical services (reaching over 6,500 in one day), the Museum is collecting any and all signs of gratitude expressed by the public for the FDNY. These will constitute an exhibition, “Unmasking Our Heroes” as soon as the Museum can re-open and allow unrestricted numbers of visitors to bear witness to these expressions of thanks. In the meantime, the NYC Fire Museum is asking for the public’s cooperation to contribute to this project with either their simple statements of their experiences or by contributing artifacts for display, by visiting www.nycfiremuseum.org/thanksFDNY #wewillrememberfdny

The NYC Fire Museum is the fourth oldest Museum in Manhattan, tracing its roots back to December 1870, when artifacts were put on display in fire headquarters at 155 Mercer Street. The tradition continues today in a 1904 Beaux-art firehouse at 278 Spring Street.