San Diego Air and Space Musuem, San Diego, California at MuseumsUSA.org

Updated: 11/18/2011

San Diego Air and Space Musuem

San Diego, California

The San Diego Aerospace Museum was the first aviation museum to be accredited by the American Association of Museums and is considered one of the top five aviation and space museums in the nation.
Its mission - celebrate, educate, and inspire - guides the Museum in its goal to encourage involvement in aerospace by discovering the history of achievements in this field. The Museum's 100+ aircraft and spacecraft, thousands of artifacts, world-class archives, and nationaly-acclaimed education programs

The Museum was founded in 1963. After building one of the most significant aviation collections in the world, the Museum was completely consumed by arson fire in February 1978. Thanks to the generosity of the citizens of San Diego and well wishers worldwide, the Museum rebuilt its operations and collections in the historic 1935 Ford Building in Balboa Park, San Diego in 1980.

100+ original and reproduction aircraft and spacecraft, including the Apollo 9 command module, Mitsubishi A6M7 Zero, 1916 SPAD VII, GPS satellite, 1927 Boeing FB-5 fighter, 1930 Ford Trimotor, 1909 Bleriot XI, and MiG-15. Approximately twenty aircraft reside at the Museum's Gillespie Field annex in El Cajon, CA.

The Museum's Archives is one of the largest, most comprehensive collections of primary and secondary aviation resources in the world. The collection comprises over one million images; hundreds of thousands of feet of film; 30,000 books; 10,000 technical manuals and drawings; and the corporate archives for Ryan and Convair.

Docent and volunteer program
Internship program
Guided tours
Museum-hosted classrooms for area public schools
Lecturer series
Traveling exhibits
Speakers bureau
Aviation ground school
Flight simulators

Board of Directors (20-34 members)

Access: General Public, Students, Scholars

Appointment required: True

www.sandiegoairandspace.org

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Normal Hours
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
With admission until 4:00 p.m.
Summer Hours
(Memorial Day through Labor Day):
10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
With admission until 5:00 p.m.
Closed:Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day

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