Aviation Museum Blueprints, Concept Art, and Renderings

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2021 1:12 am

EDIT (22-03-06): Added an additional rendering of the Airman Heritage Museum.
EDIT (22-04-18): Added an additional rendering of the Air Force Flight Test Museum.
EDIT (22-07-08): Added 7 additional renderings of the National Air and Space Museum, replace 3 and add 7 additional renderings the National Airmail Museum, and add 2 additional blueprints to the Yankee Air Museum.
EDIT (22-11-20): Added an additional rendering and 4 additional pictures of models to Hagerstown Aviation Museum.
EDIT (22-12-23): Added 2 additional renderings to the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum.
EDIT (23-03-30): Added 3 additional renderings to the Castle Air Museum.
EDIT (23-08-07): Added 1 additional rendering to the National Air and Space Museum.
EDIT (23-09-13): Added 1 additional rendering to the National Air and Space Museum.
EDIT (23-11-26): Replaced 1 rendering for the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum.
EDIT (23-11-27): Add 3 additional renderings for the Kelch Aviation Museum.
EDIT (24-07-01): Replace 2 and add 3 additional renderings for the Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum.
EDIT (24-07-30): Added 1 additional rendering to the National Air and Space Museum.
EDIT (25-01-21): Added 1 additional rendering to the National Air and Space Museum.
EDIT (25-02-02): Added 1 additional rendering to the National Air and Space Museum.
EDIT (25-04-22): Added 1 additional rendering to the National Air and Space Museum.

4RG.I.'S · **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:15 am

Here's another, the Great Lakes Aviation Museum, I really hope it happens!

http://glakesairmuseum.org/

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:00 am

Interesting concepts. I wonder how many will come to pass? Certainly not the plans for the Flying Leatherneck Museum.

kalamazookid · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:24 am

4RG.I.'S wrote:

Here's another, the Great Lakes Aviation Museum, I really hope it happens!

http://glakesairmuseum.org/

First I've heard of this one. Looks like an interesting idea and there are a lot of well-known names involved. I hope it happens too!

As an aside, I wonder how the Yankee Air Museum plans for the bomber plant site fit with their current location? It also sounds like they are breaking ground on another new building that will house the flyable aircraft. It's kind of hard to keep their plans straight.

Noha307 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:59 pm

kalamazookid wrote:

It also sounds like they are breaking ground on another new building that will house the flyable aircraft.

Yes, they're calling it the "Roush Aeronautics Center".[1]

Bomber Command Museum of Canada
Aerial View 1
Aerial View 2
Interior 1
(Source: Bomber Command Museum of Canada)
Interior 2
(Source: Bomber Command Museum of Canada)

EDIT (22-04-07): Added an additional rendering of the Bomber Command Museum of Canada.

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2308

Here's another, The Huey Museum:
http://americanhuey369.com/museummainpage2.htm

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

4RG.I.'S wrote:

Here's another, the Great Lakes Aviation Museum, I really hope it happens!

http://glakesairmuseum.org/

Lots of Corsairs in their rendering!!!!

Noha307 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:28 pm

bdk wrote:

Lots of Corsairs in their rendering!!!!

The original blueprints for our first hangar show one in each of the four corners and one more in the center for scale! Guess being such an iconic airplane makes it the go to choice for a copy/paste placeholder!

Spirit of Flight Museum
Exterior
(Source: Warbirds News)

old iron · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:04 pm

Quote:

I keep running into blueprints, concept art, and renderings for both brand new and expansions of existing aviation museums and I finally decided to just list them all in one place for easy reference:

This is a really nice list, plainly a work of love and curiosity. I would much like to share a beer with you.

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:59 pm

old iron wrote:

This is a really nice list, plainly a work of love and curiosity. I would much like to share a beer with you.

Thanks! I don't drink, but I might just have to take you up on that!

American Air Museum
Overview
(Source: Victoria and Albert Museum)

Museum of Flight
Anatomical Section
(Source: Prezi)
Exterior 1
(Source: WBUR)
Exterior 2
Interior
Floor Plan
(Source: General Aviation News)
Site Plan 1
(Source: Arch Daily)
Site Plan 2
(Source: Warbirds News)
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
(Source: Collect Space)

National Museum of Flight
Exterior 1
Exterior 2
Interior 1
Interior 2
Tower
Exploded
Floor Plan
Elevation
Site Plan
(Source: 3D Reid)

Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor
Interior
(Source: Flickr)
Hangar 79
(Source: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum)

Wings Over the Rockies (Cont.)
Overview
(Source: Wings Over the Rockies)

A non-aviation museum with an aviation exhibit:

Museum of Science and Industry
Overview 1
Blueprint 1
Overview 2
Floor Level 1
Floor Level 2
Floor Level 3
Overhead
Floor Level 4
Detail
Display 1
Display 2
Display 3
Display 4
Display 5
Display 6
Blueprint 2
(Source: Welcome to the Monkeyhaus)

Another student project:

Museum of Flight at Kitty Hawk

Finally, here's webpages for two people who did exhibit design work for the Museum of Flight. The latter also for the Flying Heritage Collection and Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome:

EDIT (25-02-17): Add 1 rendering to the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor entry.

Noha307 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:09 pm

EAA Aviation Museum
Exterior 1
(Source: Warbirds News)
Exterior 2 (with Text)
Interior 1 (with Text)
(Source: EAA)
Exhibit 1 (with Text)
Exhibit 2 & 3 (with Text)
(Source: EAA)
Exhibit 4 (with Text)
Interior 2
Interior 3 (with Text)
(Source: EAA)
Simulators
Kidventure
Conference Room
Exterior
(Source: Ghidorzi)

EDIT (22-05-09): Changed link for Exterior 1 to larger version and added 4 additional pictures.

Noha307 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:35 pm

Carolinas Aviation Museum
Interior 1
Interior 2
Interior 3
Interior 4
Overview 1
Historic Hangar
Visitor Center Entrance
Plaza (Facing Visitor Center)
Plaza (Facing New Main Gallery)
(Source: Carolinas Aviation Museum)

Sullenberger Aviation Museum
Overview 2
Exterior 1
Exterior 2
Exterior 3
Exterior 4
Interior 5
(Source: Axios Charlotte)
Aviation City
Aviation Society
(Source: Towne Today)
New Museum Fly-Thru Experience (Video)
(Source: YouTube)

EDIT (23-01-23): Added 6 renderings, which were placed in new section due to museum renaming.
EDIT (24-05-21): Added 2 renderings and 1 video.

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:08 pm

North Atlantic Aviation Museum
Exterior View 1
Exterior View 2
Exterior View 3
Exterior View 4
Exterior View 5
Interior View 1
Interior View 2
Interior View 3
[Interior View 4 not found]
Interior View 5
Interior View 6
Interior View 7
Interior View 8
[Exterior View 9 not found]
Interior View 10
[Exterior View 11 not found]
[Exterior View 12 not found]
Interior View 13
Massing Diagram
Program Diagram
(Source: Woodford Architecture)
Front of Museum
Entry Floor One
Hallway Pictures
(Source: North Atlantic Aviation Museum)

EDIT (23-09-13): Added 3 additional renderings to the North Atlantic Aviation Museum.
EDIT (24-07-01): The North Atlantic Aviation Museum may have changed its design to two separate, more traditional looking hangars based on a rendering on The Hangar page on their website.
EDIT (24-07-04): A quick correction: The rendering mentioned in the above edit is actually earlier than the rest of the ones initially posted. So, if anything, the museum changed from, and not to, it.

k5083 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:46 pm

I thought this would be a super niche thread when you started it, but it is really enjoyable to look at this artwork.

It makes me wish I had time to render some of these as scenery in Flight Simulator, so that folks could see them in 3D from the air, and fly in to visit the ones that are on airports.

August

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 22, 2021 6:51 pm

k5083 wrote:

I thought this would be a super niche thread when you started it, but it is really enjoyable to look at this artwork.

Thanks! I'm glad you find it interesting! I always thought it might be useful as a reference for other museums considering this type of construction/expansion to see what others were considering.

As was brought to my attention by a recent thread:

Lauridsen Aviation Museum
Entrance (with Text)
Aerial View
Exterior View 1
(Source: Lauridsen Aviation Museum)
Exterior View 2
(Source: Facebook)

EDIT (23-12-17): Added 1 additional rendering.

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