Aviation Museum Layout Maps

[Noha307]

I don't know about anyone else, but I often find myself looking at pictures of aviation museums (particularly those I have never visited) and wondering where on the campus it was taken.

Well, similar to the blueprints, concept art, and renderings thread, I got tired of searching for floorplans to find where everything was. So, below, I have linked as many aviation museum layout maps as I could find. I have tried to limit the entries to officially produced maps, but please feel free to add any you may have.

Hope this proves useful to someone else as well!

Maps

• Aerospace Bristol (via Google)
• Aerospace Bristol (2020) (Source)
• Air Zoo (Campus Overview) (Source)
• Air Zoo (Flight Discovery Center) (Source)
• Air Zoo (Flight Innovation Center) (Source)
• Air Zoo (Mezzanine) (Source)
• Alaska Aviation Museum (Source)
• Alberta Aviation Museum (Source)
• Aviodrome (Source)
• Aviodrome (Alternate) (Source)
• Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Aircraft on Display) (Source)
• Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Exhibition Areas) (Source)
• Combat Air Museum (Source)
• Cradle of Aviation Museum (Source)
• Delta Flight Museum (Source)
• EAA Aviation Museum (Lower Level) (Source)
• EAA Aviation Museum (Upper Level) (Source)
• Flight Path Museum (Source)
• Florida Air Museum (Source)
• Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum (Source)
• Frontiers of Flight Museum (Source)
• HAL Aerospace Museum (Source)
• Hill Aerospace Museum (Source)
• Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (Flight Deck) (Source)
• Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (Hangar Deck) (Source)
• Midland Air Museum (Source)
• Misawa Aviation & Science Museum (Source)
• Museum of Aviation (via Google)
• Museum of Aviation (Marathon) (Source)
• Museum of Flight (East Campus, First Floor) (Source)
• Museum of Flight (East Campus, Second Floor) (Source)
• Museum of Flight (West Campus) (Source)
• National Air and Space Museum (Space Hangar, 2004) (Source)
• National Air and Space Museum (Udvar-Hazy, 2003) (Source)
• National Air and Space Museum (Udvar-Hazy, 2020) (Source)
• National Museum of Flight (Version 3) (Source)
• National Museum of Flight (Version 4) (Source)
• National Naval Aviation Museum (2015) (via Google)
• National Naval Aviation Museum (via Google)
• New England Air Museum (Helicopter Day) (Source)
• Newark Air Museum (via Google)
• Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum (Map of Site) (Source)
• Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum (Site Layout) (Source)
• Palm Spring Air Museum (Source)
• Pima Air & Space Museum (Aircraft Located in Hangars) (Source)
• Pima Air & Space Museum (Aircraft Located on Grounds) (Source)
• Planes of Fame (Chino) (Source)
• Planes of Fame (Valle) (Source)
• San Diego Air & Space Museum (Source)
• State Aviation Museum of Ukraine (Source)
• Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum (Source)
• Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum (Hauntings) (Source)
• Yorkshire Air Museum (Source)

Reproductions of Maps

• Aerospace Museum of California (Source)
• C. R. Smith Museum (Source)
• Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (Flight Deck) (Source)
• March Field Air Museum (Source)
• National Museum of the United States Air Force (Source)
• Planes of Fame (Source)
• Polish Aviation Museum (Source)
• Queensland Air Museum (Source)
• Tangmere Military Aviation Museum (Source)

Proposed Maps

• Fort Worth Aviation Museum (Source)
• Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Main Level) (Source)
• Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Upper Level) (Source)
• Hiller Aviation Museum (Option A, Phase 1, First Floor) (Source)
• Hiller Aviation Museum (Option A, Phase 1, Second Floor) (Source)
• Hiller Aviation Museum (Option A, Phase 2, First Floor) (Source)
• Hiller Aviation Museum (Option A, Phase 2, Second Floor) (Source)
• Hiller Aviation Museum (Option B, First Floor) (Source)
• Hiller Aviation Museum (Option B, Second Floor) (Source)
• National Museum of the United States Air Force (Fourth Building, May 2013) (Source)
• National Museum of the United States Air Force (Fourth Building, May 2014) (Source)
• National Museum of the United States Air Force (Fourth Building, April 2016) (Source)
• Yankee Air Museum (Proposed) (Source)

EDIT (24-03-10): Correct name of Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

Last edited by Noha307 on Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:15 pm, edited 2 times in total.

[raconnel]

That's great, thank you!

[Noha307]

Maps (Continued)

• Air Mobility Command Museum (Source)
• Imperial War Museum Duxford (Source)
• Liberty Aviation Museum (Source)
• Lone Star Flight Museum (Source [Note: Link is broken.])
• Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Source)
• Royal Air Force Museum London (June 2018) (via RAFMuseum.org)
• USS Midway (Audio Tour) (Source)
• USS Midway (May 2010) (Source)

Reproductions of Maps (Continued)

• Air Force Armament Museum (Aircraft Walking Tour) (Source)
• Air Force Armament Museum (Interior) (Source)
• Alaska Aviation Museum (Source)
• American Air Museum (Source)
• Estrella Warbird Museum (Site Map) (Source)
• Estrella Warbird Museum (Macro Artifacts) (Source)
• Israeli Air Force Museum (Source)
• National Museum of the United States Air Force (Source)
• National Naval Aviation Museum (Source)
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome (Source)
• Pima Air & Space Museum (Source)
• Royal Air Force Museum Cosford (Source)
• Royal Air Force Museum London (Source)

Proposed Maps (Continued)

• Air Force Flight Test Museum (Conceptual Design) (Source)
• Yankee Air Museum (Source)

I also came across a folder with a bunch of maps on National Museum of the United States Air Force's website. I can't find where they were linked on the website, but based on the name it seems the ones in the podcast subsection came from the Tour Podcasts page:

• Podcast
  
  • Air Park
  • Cold War
  • Early Years
  • Korean War
  • Missile & Space
  • Presidential
  • Research and Development
  • Southeast Asia War
  • World War II
• Other Maps
  
  • Black and White Map with Fourth Building
  • Memorial Park
  • Two-Color Wayfinding
  • Women in the Air Force

Also, the IWM Duxford map above was taken from a brochure created by ABG Design.

[Pat Carry]

Interesting stuff, thanks.

[Noha307]

Maps (Continued)

• Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum (Exterior Exhibits) (Source)
• Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum (Interior Exhibits) (Source)

[Noha307]

Maps (Continued)

• Empire State Aerosciences Museum (Agneta Airpark) (Source)
• Empire State Aerosciences Museum (Gallery Map, Old) (Source)
• Empire State Aerosciences Museum (Gallery Map, New) (Source)
• Empire State Aerosciences Museum (Russ Agneta Air Park) (Source)

[Noha307]

Maps (Continued)

• Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum (Pre-2020) (Source)

[Noha307]

Maps (Continued)

• Musée Hydraviation (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 1) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 2) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 3) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 4) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 4, 2012) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 5) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Hangar 6) (Source)
• Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica (Exterior) (Source)
• Museu do Ar (Source)

[Noha307]

For some reason, the recent database rebuild apparently removed the last post from this thread. Luckily, it was archived, so I was able to reproduce it:

The Hickory Aviation Museum has an interesting interactive "ouija board" hosted on an outside website that, according to their Flight Line page, is updated to "show what is currently on display and what is not". At the moment, it currently looks like this:

(Source: Kuula)

[Noha307]

Maps (Cont.)

• Aviation Museum Belgrade (First Floor) (Source)
• Aviation Museum Belgrade (Second Floor) (Source)
• Aviation Museum Belgrade (Exterior) (Source)
• Finnish Air Force Museum (Source)
• Museo Augusta (Source)

[Noha307]

The Musée Volant Salis has an interactive map similar to the Hickory Aviation Museum's. However, theirs has only shows the overall arrangement of hangars themselves and not the locations of individual aircraft:

(Source: Musée Volant Salis)

[Noha307]

Reproductions of Maps (Cont.)

• Planes of Fame (Source)

Last edited by Noha307 on Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Noha307]

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Source)

[Warbird Kid]

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Source)

Why does this not look like the Leatherneck museum is in one of the original hangars? Did something change?

[Noha307]

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• Aviation Heritage Park (Source)

Last edited by Noha307 on Sun Nov 26, 2023 12:01 am, edited 1 time in total.