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plus, there's food. And bars.

oneirodynia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:13:31 -0800

With over 35,000,000 visitors a year, it could be argued that it is the busiest museum in the world. Yet most people are there to catch a plane.

The San Francisco International Airport is the first airport accredited by the American Association of Museums. It houses a permanent aviation exhibit, as well as dozens of rotating exhibits in various terminals, some of which are only available to screened passengers ( and for some reason, one has to dig through press releases to see photographs: Catalinaware, Victorian Majolica, Eight Centuries of Buddhist Imagery.) More pictures of the aviation museum from the Flickr site of the completely awesome Telstar Logistics. Another blog post on a past exhibit, The Engineering of Sound.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:17:23 -0800

Ohhh man, I want me some of them coooolio pilot pins! (i'm getting likkered up and heading to e-Bay!...) Nice find, oneirodynia!

By: Postroad

Postroad — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:39:40 -0800

And to think I wasted time recently at MOMA....they had not one airplane model on display!

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:17 -0800

I guess I'm really showing my geek feathers but when I saw this I immediately thought of the airport museum from Airline Tycoon. The Dutch dude in there has a steal on a used C-5A.

By: hexatron

hexatron — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:06:49 -0800

I don't know about airplane models, but the MOMA does have this little work of art.

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:28:05 -0800

Glad to see the exhibits at SFO are getting some serious approval. Every one I've seen has been interesting, attractive, and far better than it needs to be, given that people waiting around for flights would be grateful to look at just about anything. It's definitely one of the more pleasant airports to kill time in, thanks to these exhibits.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:09:40 -0800

hex--- your link is hinky.

By: hexatron

hexatron — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:18:04 -0800

Trying that MOMA work of art again.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:41:16 -0800

Poifect!