Hall Of Flame Fire Museum

The Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting, formally the National Historical Fire Foundation, is a museum in Phoenix, Arizona, dedicated to the preservation of firefighting equipment from around the world; its name plays on 'Hall of Fame'. Its collection began as the private holdings of George F. Getz Jr, who opened the original Hall of Flame in Wisconsin in 1961; it relocated to Phoenix in 1974 and has since grown into the world's largest historical firefighting museum, with more than ninety fully restored pieces of apparatus across almost an acre of exhibits. Five galleries display equipment grouped by era, from hand- and horse-drawn engines to motorised apparatus dating to 1968, alongside a smaller gallery on wildland firefighting. The museum also holds the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes, commemorating US firefighters killed in the line of duty or decorated for heroism, a video theatre, and a collection of fire-department patches, insurance marks and helmets. Some vehicles are taken out by volunteer operators for Phoenix-area parades and events. The museum stands at 6101 East Van Buren Street, across from the Phoenix Zoo and adjacent to the Phoenix Municipal Stadium.

Where it is

Hall Of Flame Fire Museum is a museum near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Hall Of Flame Fire Museum, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

• Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
• Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
• Official site: http://www.hallofflame.org/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.