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Science and Industry Museum to vacate lease on Air and Space Hall Avro Shackleton. Photo: Science Museum Group. MANCHESTER .- The Science and Industry Museum and Manchester City Council announce today that the museum will no longer lease the historic Lower Campfield market hall building which houses the Air and Space Hall. This hall, which is closed due to the extent of repairs needed, and many of the objects within it, formed Manchester City Councils Air and Space Museum, which opened in 19...

An exhibition will tell the untold stories of Jewish personnel in the Second World War. Photo courtesy of Michael Greisman The Royal Air Force Museum and Chelsea Foundation have unveiled new exhibition plans for a Jewish Hidden Heroes project. The partnership is sponsored by Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich and will support the expansion of the museum’s project which will feature a new Bomber Command exhibition at both the Hendon and Cosford sites, launching in 2023. The new displays w...

Scotlands aviation history celebrated through new RAF website and trail LARGE crowds gathered as an aeronaut ascended in a hydrogen balloon from the garden of George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh on October 5, 1785. Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew over the Firth of Forth and landed at Coaltown of Callange in the Parish of Ceres, in Fife, and had travelled 46 miles. A commemorative plaque marks the site to this day. In a report from the time by Scots Magazine, it said: “The beauty and gra...

Planes on display outside the Royal Air Force Museum in London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. As part of the British soccer team Chelsea FC’s “Say No to Antisemitism” campaign, the Chelsea Foundation and the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum have partnered on a project that will highlight Jews who served in the RAF. The Chelsea Foundation and the museum announced an expansion of the museum’s “Hidden Heroes” project featuring a new Bomber Command exhibition, focusing on the previously little...

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Chelsea Foundation and Royal Air Force Museum Unveil New Exhibition Plans Chelsea Foundation and Royal Air Force Museum Unveil New Exhibition Plans Photo Courtesy of Michael Greisman – ‘Jews in Uniform’ ©Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum’ PRESS RELEASE – The partnership is sponsored by club owner Roman Abramovich and will support the expansion of the Museum’s Jewish ‘Hidden Heroes’ project which will feature a new Bomber Command exhibition at both the London and Cosford si...

Striding Into The New Year With The Lancaster Challenge Striding Into The New Year With The Lancaster Challenge PRESS RELEASE -The Royal Air Force Museum is striding into the New Year with a brand-new virtual challenge, where participants can choose whether to complete 80K, 150K or even 500K. Registrations for the Lancaster Challenge opened on Saturday 9 January 2021, exactly 80 years since the first test flight of the Avro Lancaster. Whether you need to walk off the Christmas calories, or get ...