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This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum reopened in Building 126, a former U.S. Navy recreation center, across the street from Hangar One in April 2005. [3] [6] The museum opened time capsule in April 2007, but most of the contents were damaged by water. [7] The museum began preparing a Lockheed U-2C for display in August 2014. [8]
Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres (32,000 m 2; 3.2 ha) at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. The massive hangar has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of California's Silicon Valley.
Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory; James Rogers McConnell Air Museum, Carthage; Museum of Life and Science, Durham; North Carolina Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame, Asheboro; Sullenberger Aviation Museum, Charlotte; Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills; US Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum, Fayetteville [75]
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The USS Hornet Museum has many of aircraft on display including propeller aircraft, jet aircraft, and rotorcraft including several Naval helicopters. The aircraft are from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Museum guests can get up-close to the aircraft displayed on the flight deck and on the hangar deck. Aircraft are sometimes moved ...
In 1930, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly US$480,000 (equivalent to $9,034,900 in 2024) raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, [10] then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon.
Children's Creativity Museum: San Francisco: California: No No Yes Yes Children's Discovery Museum [5] [6] Normal: Illinois: No Yes Yes Yes Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: San Jose: California: No Yes Yes No Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences: Rocky Mount: North Carolina: No No Yes Yes Children's Museum of Eau Claire [6] Eau ...