Celebrate National Museum Day by becoming a Museum Patron

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 [...]

National Museum Day 2013

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 5: Preserving Modeling Equipment

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 4 bonus: Padded hangers

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 4: Preserving Textiles

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 3 bonus: Storing Models

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 3: Preserving Model Airplanes

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 2: Preserving Pictures and Documents

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 [...]

Preservation Week Day 1: Preserving Stories

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.  [...]

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