The Fire Brigade Museum is in the Fatih district. It was opened by constructing an additional building next to a 1931 historical fire station.

The museum has had many periods of maintenance and restoration. It was first opened in 1989 but closed again in 1997 due to renovations. It was then re-opened in 1998 for Fire Brigade Week, and named after Count Széchenyi, who dedicated 48 years of his life to the Istanbul Fire Brigade.

The building was renovated again in 2008 and the contents of the museum evacuated and moved to the Başakşehir Fire Department for nearly two years. Finally, the Fire Department was moved to its new location in the Kılıç Ali Paşa Water Cistern in Beşiktaş district and re-opened in May 2013.

In the collection of the museum, which is among the most important of its kind in the world, the following are exhibited: period clothes of today's firefighters from neighbourhood firefighters, various pumps from the world’s oldest fire extinguishers, fire prevention barrels, signal baskets used in the Beyazıt Tower, telephone switchboards, hydrophore pumps, the first motorized pump, a horse-drawn pump car, a cloth cistern, a fire ladder, gloves, fire lanterns, life-saving ropes, masks and filters, distribution taps, firefighter and fireman's clothes, fire helmets, chief fire axes, and various hats. There are a total of 841 artifacts in its collection.

The museum, which has a history of three hundred years, was transferred to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Directorate of Libraries and Museums in 1996. The museum is the museum of both a vocational group and an ongoing institution, which helps to maintain its quality as a continuous education and information centre. The museum provides information about the History of the fire department and the Fire Brigade Museum to students of all ages and categories, from pre-school to university education.