In a complete building full to the rafters with vehicles, sirens, bells and all kinds of rare and curious contraptions the Museum never sees a dull day. Part...

Read on to follow our historical characters through time as they look at how people and services reacted to the epidemics of the past.

So you’ve found us. Firstly congratulations, like the Sword of Gryffindor, we only seem to appear to the select few! You’ve joined the growing, but elite gro...

We’ve all heard of the Great Fire of London, about the bakery on Pudding Lane, and the blaze that spread from there to engulf much of the city in 1666. (If y...

Seventy-five years ago this week, on 8 May 1945, the world was celebrating the end of war in Europe. Six years of ‘total war’ had forced the pace of change i...

Here at NESM we try to tell the story of the Emergency Services from their very beginnings, right up to the present day. However, it is sometimes hard to know...

As a member of the collections team at NESM one of my tasks is to assess, preserve and catalogue the books, magazines and other documents that make up our li...

In one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most iconic stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr James Mortimer states that Sherlock is ‘the second highest expert i...

One of the exciting things about working with the museum’s collection is that researching objects can lead you to some amazing stories about the person they ...

“So what exactly do you lot do then?” That’s a common question asked to members of our Collections Team. Visitors are often interested to know what goes on b...

NESM is a self-funded, independent charity which receives no funding through Government, Council or the Emergency Services. Please help us to survive and thr...