What are your most favourite aviation museums?

RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

USAF air museum at Wright Patt. They opened a third hangar.. can’t wait to see.. I’ll be in Ohio next week.

RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

Point Cook, because it is what the RAF Museum should have been, a superb collection of both static and airworthy aircraft on an active and very historic airfield.

RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

Can I put in a word for…

Brooklands, Wellington R-Robert and the incredible crew of ex-Vickers workers doing the restoration who are never to busy to stop and tell you their WW2 yarns

Shuttleworth because the aircraft are alive, not corpses

Bungay & Flixton Aviation museum because it’s free, packed with interesting stuff and the pub next door serves great food.

Hendon for the interesting types, but I wish it was less like a mausoleum.

Duxford because the Spitfires are so highly polished 🙂

Moggy

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For aircraft types it’s Monino for me: ‘100’, M50, VVA-14, Yak-36 and a whole bunch of non-prototypes. Although the prototype collection at Le Bourget (and it’s excellent storage compound across the airfield) is impressive.

For atmosphere: the Lodz-museum before it was sanitized. It was simply a whole bunch of Lims and Migs thrown together: if you are going to neglect your collection, better make it part of the scenery!

For obscurity: Rostov-na-Donu. Five aircraft collecting milldew at a market place between huge flatblocks. Amongst these the only known surviving Yak-28P.

For exquisit looking collection: Duxford (the aircraft inside of course), and the British variant of Lodz: Lasham!

RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

1 Duxford
2 Hendon
3 Aviadome
I also like to visit smaller archive collections such as Coventry, Norwich, Middle Wallop etc etc

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RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

Every museum I have ever visited. They all have something which you bring away with you. I have not visited Hendon for a number of years but last time I went I found it peculiarly devoid of atmosphere. Now, Duxford I find a total contrast. The place reeks of history and the warbird presence all helps bring that to life. The Midland Air Museum at Coventry is good with unusual exhibits. Cosford I love, but that is my local, just 20 minutes away. Was there today actually but just for the shop. I also have many, many happy memories of airshows there and of flying from there with the Air Training Corps. The old Ludham tower museum at Ludham in Norfolk was particularly evocative. Does anyone know what happened to it?

And last but far from least… Thorpe Abbotts. I found this had a particularly emotional effect on me.

So, I think our responses to this question are going to be extremely diverse and all the better for that.

Regards,

kev35

RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

For “atmosphere”: Hendon (was also my first big a/c museum.. at only 9 years of age)
For location: IWM Duxford
For sheer size: USAF Museum (almost too big)
For rarities and oddities: (1) Swedish Air Force Museum in Linköping, (2) Musée de l’air, Paris
Most overlooked museum: Danish Collection of Vintage Aircraft in Stauning, Denmark (has an example of each(!) type built by Skandinavisk Aero Industri (Kramme & Zeuthen) on show (10 types), all airworthy except for two, and much more)
Most endangered collection: Luftwaffe Museum, Berlin (most post-WW2 aircraft are outside and it shows…)
Award for lack of concept: Deutsches Museum, Oberschleissheim

RE: What are your most favourite aviation museums?

An obvious answer from me perhaps, but Hendon-for it’s atmosphere as much as for it’s content.