Firefighters, police officers, rescue workers, doctors…they have a special magnetism. They have a smell of heroism and danger. The same goes for cars: fire, police, ambulance.
You can get a closer look at them (at trucks, not people) at the Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield. Not all employees are willing to talk about their work because of its specifics. In the museum, the curtain comes down on this mystery. The museum is located in a former fire and police station. The walls are steeped in smoke and danger. From there, teams of police and firefighters raced to help the people of Sheffield. The police also brought criminals there. They were kept in special cells.
The Museum is compared to the TARDIS, the alien ship of the main character of the series "Doctor Who". Inside, it is much larger than it looks from the outside, but you would never think that it can accommodate so many exhibits, including 50 emergency vehicles and about a million other small items. It has everything related to emergency services, from a 47-foot lifeboat to fire brigade beer tags.
In addition to transport, the museum has three floors of equipment and other small items. The cool thing is that the museum is interactive! In Sheffield, you can fulfill your childhood dream of becoming a firefighter by trying on his uniform. You can do everything: walk along the cold corridor with cameras where criminals were waiting for interrogation, climb a mini-wall for climbing, try on the things of emergency services employees, sit in the cab of a police car, climb the fire truck and see in detail what is hidden in the truck of the ambulance team! This is a true delight for both children and adults! And sometimes the museum holds demonstrations! There you can hear the sound of sirens, smell burning, see smoke. These effects are used to bring the story to life.
Even though the museum building is located in Sheffield, expositions are usually exported, transported for participating in both national and international exhibitions.