What is the Southfield Site Visitor Centre?
That’s a very good question.
Currently a good proportion of NAM’s aircraft and displays are housed on 4 acres of leased land (currently 21 years into a 50 year lease with the landlords).
The Southfield site is 12.38 acres of land that the museum purchased around 15 years ago, which has been slowly developed since the acquisition. This is where Hangar 2 (the 2,400 sq metre HLF funded project) was constructed in 2003/4.
NAM is now starting to provide more facilities alongside the Hangar 2 and this is what is known as the Southfield Site Visitor Centre Project; and will include the following items in a single building:
Education / lecture area
Archive / library / research areas
Improved small object display areas
Shop
Café / seating areas
Toilets
A large part of the project will see the museum entrance area relocated to be directly off Drove Lane and will include improved infrastructure / car parking areas that will allow dual use for events like the Outdoor Aeroboot, Cockpit-Fest and temporary aircraft display areas for Photo Shoot events.
The floor area of the Southfield Site Visitor Centre will occupy approximately 700 sq metres of space i.e. being just under one third of the floor area occupied by Hangar 2.
😀 As the project moves forward ‘rest-assured’ that I will be passing on progress reports on a regular basis! 😉
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