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 […]
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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 […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 […]
Continue readingHall of Fame Exhibit Installation, Part 3
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 […]
Continue readingNational Preservation Week: Introduction
You’ve been modeling a long time. Over the years, the model airplanes, pictures, old flight equipment and club t-shirts have built up and are currently piled in your garage. You’ve got more modeling stories than you can remember. What’s going to happen to all of it next year, in five […]
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It is almost April 1st. Besides being April Fool’s Day, April 1st is the day that the museum switches from its winter hours over to its summer hours. Just to throw in some confusion, during the months that the museum is operating on the summer hours, there’s a few weeks […]
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