In the 1960s, the departmental firefighters’ organisation joined the efforts of Jean-Mathis Horrenberger to defend the plan for a railways museum in Mulhouse. The organisation was a partner from the very beginning, and the Firefighters’ Museum was inaugurated on 25 November 1978. Under the glulam wood frame erected by the contractor Mathis, pumps, vehicles, ladders, helmets and uniforms told of the work of firefighters. The collection, which was chiefly derived from that of Colonel Albert Ludmann, former chief of the Mulhouse fire brigade and avid collector, was housed in building C. On the occasion of refurbishment work undertaken in the 2000s, the collection, now an approved Museum of France, left Dornach for the town of Vieux-Ferrette.