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Explore the museum

Walk through the 1893 Eastern Hill fire station in 360°, then watch the films made inside.

360° tour

Drag to look around. Use the room menu in the top corner to move between the duty room, the basement corridor, the print room and the roof.

360° photography by Barney Meyer and Mark Hassed of Hidden Melbourne.

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Films from the station

Five short films from our YouTube channel. Choose one to play it here.

Our YouTube channel

Now playing: The watch room

The Eastern Hill fire station on Victoria Parade: gold and red brick, a tall tower and three green engine-bay doors
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0

The building is part of the collection

The Eastern Hill fire station opened in 1893 as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

Today it holds more than 10,000 fire-related items, one of the largest collections of firefighting memorabilia in Australia, cared for by volunteers from Fire Rescue Victoria, the CFA and other services.

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