Stirring up trouble :dev2:
As far as they are concerned the National Military Museum is a step backwards.
Apparently there is less room now to display aircraft, and the storage area has now also become rather limited.
I’d say part of this is the old discussion of collection versus experience. Aircraft enthousiasts are happy to see a shed crammed full with aircraft, but these are just a handful of the visitors. Other visitors tend to want to see educational entertainment, which takes up money and space, leaving less room for hardcore collection but make the museum a lot more interesting to the general public. At NMM I am hoping to see a good mix of the two. Then there’s also the issue of combining several museum collections under one roof, which has less floor space than the combined collections used to have. This means choices have to be made what to display and what to keep in storage.
Granted, there are a lot less airplanes displayed than at the old museum, and as an enthousiast I am less than happy about that. On the plus side a lot more of the larger airframes will be under cover (some in storage), and the location is a lot more appropriate than the old one (it being the oldest military airfield in the country).
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