Following a successful outdoor-only opening on Memorial Day Weekend, the New England “Open” Air Museum is poised to reopen all indoor and outdoor exhibit spaces beginning June 19, 2020.
While the museum’s indoor spaces will be open, the wide-open exhibit hangar doors will make everyone feel as though they are still outdoors in the fresh air, museum officials say.
“With 90,000 square feet of aircraft hangars and wide-open hangar doors, there really is no better place to go for safe, socially distanced fun,” they added.
“The great thing about this museum is that everyone can have a great experience, see incredible aircraft, learn and have fun all without the need to touch anything,” they continued.
The outdoor space will remain open with 10 aircraft, and visitors can see another 50 aircraft indoors, plus dozens of engines and exhibits on various aspects of aviation history.
The entire museum has been cleaned and sanitized since the last visitors left back in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The shortened hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily will leave the staff extra time for cleaning at the beginning and end of each day.
To ensure the health and safety of the museum’s visitors, staff, and volunteers, the New England Air Museum will follow all COVID-19 rules issued by the Governor Ned Lamont and the Reopen Connecticut panel, officials noted.
The New England Air Museum, the largest aviation museum in New England, is on the north side of Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
This is a great museum but u fortunately there is no direct access from GA parking, nor plans for such.
While sometimes you can get a ride from one of the FBO’s , sometimes getting a ride back doesn’t happen and then it is a long walk.
Still, very worth a visit
So nice and professional of you to keep the museums location a secret in your article.
It’s a nice museum right next to Bradley Airport.
https://www.neam.org/
Doug, take your mouse and see if you can click on the hyperlink right there in the article. That will bring up a ton of information about the museum. If you need help, ask any 5-year-old how to do it.
http://www.neam.org, located at Bradley International Airport on the GA side, across from Embraer. We have three large hangars with over 100 aircraft in our collection, including everything from a balloon basket flown over CT in the mid 1800s, to the sole Sikorsky VS44 flying boat flown by Charles Blair, to an F-14 and a lot in between! Come visit!