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 […]
Continue readingSwitching Hours
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 […]
Continue readingMadman Yates and his Madman model
The museum portion of April’s Model Aviation “In the Air” column looks at J.C. Yates’ Madman CL Aerobatics airplane that is in the museum collection. There wasn’t enough room in the column to share all of the information related to the model, so it is shared here in a “deleted scenes” type […]
Continue readingA fascinated visitor
This little boy, Aiden, was fascinated by his visit to the National Model Aviation Museum today. Hopefully he’s going to grow up to be a modeler! Come visit and find something that fascinates you!
Continue readingHall of Fame Exhibit Installation, part 2
There’s been some progress on the AMA Model Aviation Hall of Fame exhibit in the museum lobby (read more on this in part one here). We’ve been working on getting the graphics to print and size correctly (which did not make exciting photographs). Now that they are correct, though, here’s the finished and […]
Continue readingMuseum Recommended by the FAI
The Academy of Model Aeronautics’ National Model Aviation Museum was approved as a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Recommended Museum during the 106th FAI General Conference in Antalya, Turkey last year. The museum is one of three museums that have been recognized by the FAI in the United States. The FAI Recommended Museum […]
Continue readingHall of Fame Exhibit Installation, part 1
To better honor those in the AMA Model Aviation Hall of Fame, the museum is installing a graphic exhibit and computer kiosk in the museum’s front lobby. As the installation of the exhibit progresses, we will be updating the museum’s blog with pictures.
Continue readingNew Museum Patron Promotion
Starting February 1 through August 31 2013, anyone who signs up to be a National Model Aviation Museum Patron will receive a coupon for 20% from the AMA Plans Service. The 20% off will apply towards your entire plans purchase. The AMA Plans Service offers roughly 18,000 aircraft plans for […]
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