 Entrance to the museum and three TS-11 Iskra airplanes | |
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| Established | 1964 |
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| Location | Kraków, Poland |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Website | http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl |
The Polish Aviation Museum (Polish: Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego w Krakowie) is a large museum of historic aircraft and aircraft engines in Kraków, Poland. It is located at the site of the no-longer functional Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport. This airfield, established by Austria-Hungary in 1912, is one of the oldest in the world. The museum opened in 1964, after the airfield closed in 1963. It was listed among the world's best aviation museums by CNN.[1]
For the first half century of its existence the museum used four hangars of the former airfield to display its exhibits. These buildings were not originally designed for this purpose and suffered from various inadequacies, notably insufficient heating in winter. The situation improved when a new main building for the museum opened on 18 September 2010.[2]
- ^ Cynthia Drescher, Tamara Hinson and Tara Donaldson. "20 best aviation museums around the world". CNN. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- ^ Announcements on museum webpage Archived June 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine