Along with all the model airplanes and flying equipment and memorabilia in the collection, the museum also has a small collection of model rockets. When these rockets were received in the mid-1990s little information was documented on their donors and history. A chance discussion with District IV VP Jay Marsh […]
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Preservation Week 2014: Storing Large Models
Models airplanes are graceful in the air, but often can be clunky, bulky, and hard to handle on the ground. These characteristics make finding a method of storing a large number of them rather difficult, especially when preservation needs – like protecting against light, dust, pests, and bad handling come […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 […]
Continue readingPreservation 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 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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