Discover MUBOMA
The Alicante Firefighters Consortium Museum, located in Alcoy, is an innovative space designed to publicize the importance of this profession.
Schedule
From Monday to Tuesday: from 10 to 16h.
Friday: from 10 to 14h and from 16 to 18h.
Saturday: from 10 to 14h.
Sunday and Bank Holidays: from 11 to 14h.
Closed: 1and 6 of Jannuary and 25 of december.
Pricing
Regular Price
Museum Visit: €3
Sundays: €1
Reduced Prices
Children between 7 and 15 years old: €1.50
Holders of the Youth Card (up to 26 years old): €1.50
Holders of the Student Card (up to 26 years old): €1.50
Adult groups of more than 15 people: €1.50 per person
*Groups wishing to do so may request a guided tour with 15 days’ notice. Minimum of 15 people over 7 years old. The group entrance fee will be charged in full.
Seniors aged 65 and/or retirees: €1.50
Free admission
Children under 7 years old
People with disabilities* Also, personal assistants or other support persons will have the right to free ccess when accompanying the person with a disability, provided that the latter requires it.
Teachers with valid identification*
Workers and former workers of the Provincial Consortium* + immediate family + two accompanying persons.
*Documentation required at the ticket office.
The Museum
Structured thematically, the exhibition space accompanies and guides the visitor through a new and interactive discourse, which includes numerous audiovisuals, texts and panels that unveil in thematic blocks, from the birth of the Alcoi industry and its evolution, to its link with the origin and development of the firefighter’s profession.
Through the tour of the MUBOMA the visitor will be able to observe the material elements that allow the development of the firefighter’s work. They will learn about the different fire extinguishing methods and their different applications, they will assimilate the importance of fire and water and will understand the necessities of the birth and evolution of the tools that make the profession possible.
The visitor, through the different rooms and showcases, will observe the tools and the technical and human resources that have allowed the development of this profession over time. The visitor will get an idea of the development of the firefighters’ profession, will get to understand the use of the material and technical resources involved in each area of action and will assimilate the importance and necessity of the origin and organization of the profession.
In addition, the public will come to understand the particular resources of a craft, the work of which depends both on technical perfectionism and the development of a series of personal values ranging from a high level of training and experience to the characteristics of their own personalities such as courage, bravery or reaction capacity that allow and promote the success of each job.
A before and an after
The Museum is located in a two-story building with neoclassical elements, which is part of the industrial complex that was developed in the mid-nineteenth century in Alcoi.
The building, which currently houses the facilities of the Provincial Museum of Firefighters of Alacant, was built in the middle of the 19th century with the aim of fulfilling the characteristic functions of a textile industry. Initially the factory space was destined to the production of the manufacture of cotton, later it was transformed into a factory of felt, finally becoming a factory of filats until 1985, when a great fire destroyed a great part of the building.
The building is part of the industrial complex that develops along the Barxell and Riquer river basin. It is a linear building with a ground floor and two storeys, with a structure built entirely of pine wood. The walls of the main façade were made of sandstone and the rest of the walls of the main façade of the building were made of sandstone and the rest of the walls of the building were made of tuff and tuff. These walls are interrupted by openings forming back walls that maintain the same order on all three floors; they are flared walls to allow as much light as possible to pass through. Stylistically, the façade adopts certain neoclassical elements. The window is later and is built in masonry with a truncated cone-shaped shaft.