If you have not had the chance to visit the AMA’s National Model Aviation Museum, we encourage you to add it to your list of fun family-friendly activities this summer. Your family can come for free on May 18, 2013 when the museum will be celebrating National Museum Day. When you are in Muncie you [...]
May 18, 2013 is National Museum Day. All of the museums in Muncie are going to be free on the 18th– including the National Model Aviation Museum. If you’re in Muncie, you can pick up a passport to get stamped at each museum you visit. Families that visit 4 of the 5 museums in town [...]
This is the seventh post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Model engines and radio control equipment are fun to collect. There’s also all those old building and flying supplies you’re not sure what to do with. As [...]
This is the sixth post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Padded hangers are one of the best ways of storing a piece of historic clothing. Most of the museum’s collection of jackets documenting competitions and other events are [...]
This is the fifth post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Textiles are not as common in modeling collections as they are in other types of historical collections, but they can be found. Club t-shirts, competition-specific baseball [...]
This is the fourth post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. I’m hoping to do a step-by-step guide to how the NMAM wraps and hangs model airplanes sometime during the summer of 2013. In the meantime, here’s a look at [...]
This is the third post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Preserving model airplanes can be tricky. The materials involved in building a model deteriorate at different rates and methods. They can be large and unwieldy. However, more [...]
This is the second post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. The instructions for your first RC system. Your first AMA membership card. Photographs of the trophy presentation for your Nats win. The notes & research from the [...]
This is the first post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Preserving your stories is the single most important thing you can do to preserve your photographs, model airplanes and the other objects that are vital to you. [...]
More progress on the AMA Model Aviation Hall of Fame exhibit in the museum lobby (see previous progress in part one and part two). The wall & ceiling space has been painted and the background graphics are up. On 4/10/2013, Michael Smith hangs the background exhibit panels for the new Hall of Fame exhibit. [...]
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