Museum of Flight

An Orchestra Will Take Over This Aviation Museum

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University of Stuttgart Academic Orchestra.

 We’re no longer positive how this will paintings. Or why it's far going on. But we’re positive it'll be awesome.

On September 21, from 3 pm to five pm, the University of Stuttgart Academic Orchestra will take over all 5 primary galleries at Seattle’s Museum of Flight.

The plan is for the Orchestra to divide into five separate chamber groups and station themselves within the aviation and space galleries on both the Museum’s East and West Campuses.

Each group plans to play picks with the aid of composers consisting of Mendelssohn and Weber to celebrate aviation, area, history, and technological know-how.

Here’s this system:

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826): Quintet for clarinet and strings in B-flat most important, Op. 34.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1947): String octet in E-flat predominant, Op. 20.
Joachim Raff (1822-1882): Sinfonietta for winds in F principal, Op. 188.
Plus preparations for brass ensemble.

The Museum performances are a part of a North American excursion through the Stuttgart, Germany-based totally orchestra, and are unfastened with admission to the Museum of Flight.

Museum of Flight No Stranger to Music

Seattle Opera Dress Rehearsal at Museum of Flight

This isn’t the first time a music manufacturing has taken over the Museum of Flight.

During the pandemic, the Seattle Opera was scheduled to present a overall performance of “Flight.” The 3-act opera changed into written in 1998 via composer Jonathan Dove and librettist April De Angelis and has been completed around the arena.

Here’s the tale of the opera:

“An omniscient air traffic controller watches over a departure front room bustling with relentlessly cheerful flight attendants, an excitable couple on vacation, a mysterious older lady, and a diplomat and his expectant wife, all of whom should spend the night to attend out a typhoon. At the heart of the display is the Refugee, a individual inspired through Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport close to Paris for nearly 18 years.”

The pandemic meant that Seattle Opera couldn't perform the show stay. But instead of bypass on the possibility to present it, the Seattle Opera teamed up with Seattle’s Museum of Flight and filmed the opera there.

For National Book Lovers Day: our new ebook

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Amelia Earhart Reading,” International Women’s Air & Space Museum,

August nine become National Book Lovers Day and we celebrated through traveling a number of the places in Seattle which can be featured in our new e-book, 111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss, which starts offevolved shipping these days.

The e book is part of the international 111 Places series, which offers locals and experienced tourists guides to hidden treasures, ignored gems, and charming curious places in amazing towns.

For the Seattle manual, I’m pointing readers to many airport and aviation-associated items round city, which includes the artwork collections at each Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and King County International Airport – Boeing Field (BFI).

Richard Elliot’s ‘Eyes on the World’ at SEA
Brad Miller’s “30,000 Feet” Photo by using Joe Freemans Courtesy 4Culture

The Museum of Flight is represented in the ebook, with the story of the Taylor Aerocar, an early flying car that labored.

Taylor Aerocar III, one wing folded back for floor journey, one wing attached for flight.

And we additionally point human beings to the tiny pocket park on the beaches of Lake Union in which they’ll find a plaque marking the spot where the first Boeing plane took off.

The plaque reads “From this web site, Boeing launched it first airplane, the B&W, in 1916.”

Of direction, there are plenty of different non-aviation web sites inside the ebook, which includes the Giant Shoe Museum, the world’s greenest industrial constructing, a haunted staircase, the Rubber Chicken Museum, a shop in which you may purchase customized magic wands, the location where you may hire a rowboat at no cost, and lots more.

We hope you’ll get a replica of 111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss out of your favourite bookseller.

Get you unfastened museum tickets

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Between shutdowns, workforce layoffs, and finances cuts, the pandemic has been difficult on museums and cultural points of interest throughout the USA.

But that gained’t stop extra than a thousand museums, zoos, and cultural centers from commencing their doorways without spending a dime on Saturday, September 18 as a part of Smithsonian mag’s Museum Day 2021.

Each taking part museum will provide loose admission to guests who gift a museum day price tag downloaded from the Museum Day website. Visitors may additionally request one ticket per e mail and each ticket gives preferred admission to the ticket holder and one visitor.

In addition to imparting financial savings on admission fees, which can be pretty hefty, Museum Day offers visitors a threat to revisit a fave museum or discover a brand new one.

The event, which was canceled final yr because of COVID-19, celebrates the reopening of museums and the go back of arts and cultural reports with this year’s theme of Experience America.

You can seek through city, zip code, or kingdom for a museum close to you. Here are some examples of museums you would possibly want to visit along with your unfastened Museum Day price ticket – or any day.

Flight Path Museum & Learning Center at LAX

The Flight Path Museum and Learning Center is a exceptional aviation and aerospace museum at Los Angeles International Airport.

LAX Flight Path Museum airplane models

Gold Coast Railroad Museum: Miami, FL

The museum houses greater than forty historical rail vehicles including the Presidential Rail Car ‘Ferdinand Magellan,’ and Florida East Coast Steam Locomotive #153. 

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, NY

The mythical plane service Intrepid is a National Historic Landmark. See 28 aircraft, the distance trip Enterprise, and input Growler, the simplest guided missile submarine open to the public.

Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA

The Museum of Flight is the sector’s largest independent air and space museum. It displays over one hundred sixty airplanes and spacecraft on a 23-acre campus. The museum’s six homes include the authentic Boeing Aircraft factory.

Museum Monday: Aerospace Medicine at Seattle’s Museum of Flight

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Smithsonian mag’s Museum Day returns on September 18, 2021 and on that day greater than 1000 museums, technological know-how facilities, and gardens around the u . s . a . may be providing unfastened admission to all of us who shows up with a downloaded Museum Day ticket.

Seattle’s Museum of Flight (wherein everyday admission is normally $25) is at the listing this year and we’ve already downloaded our price ticket so we can move see the museum’s newest showcase known as Stranger Than Fiction – the Incredible Science of Aerospace Medicine.

The exhibit includes dozen of artifacts, together with scientific kits, airsickness baggage, flight fits, and spacesuits. and tells the tale of aviation and area adventurers, doctors, and researchers who make it feasible for people to fly thru the air and rancid into area.

Below are a number of the retro comic e book-fashion photographs the Museum of Flight is the use of to assist make the showcase handy to all. And right here is the official Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack, created through artist Leeni Ramadan.

(All photographs courtesy Museum of Flight)

Museums are opening across the united states of america

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Are you geared up to visit a museum? If so, it’s a great bet you’ll find a museum close to you that’s open, or attending to equipped to open its doors to the (masked ) public once more soon.

Here are some of the museums we’ve were given on our listing.

Seattle’s Museum of Flight

It became lovable when animals from Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo got to visit the Museum of Flight. But we had been nevertheless jealous. Now we’re glad humans can go to the museum too.

Can’t make it? Don’t fear. The museum’s series may be regarded on-line. In the artifact segment, we determined this talking GI Joe Astronaut from 1970.
“When his canine tag is pulled, GI Joe narrates his way through a lunar mission, from liftoff to Moon touchdown to splashdown.”

Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum 

The Mütter Museum is a clinical museum with a ways-ranging collections of anatomical specimens, models, and medical instruments. Einstein’s brain is here. And so is a specimen from John Wilkes Booth’s vertebra.

We’ve spent numerous time with Memento Mütter, the museum’s online show off of extra than 60 objects from the Museum’s series, approximately half of which are not on public display.  If you take a look at it out, be warned that the paper mache eyeball is one of the least alarming items you’ll see.

Now that the museum has reopened, there’s a brand new show off of photographs by means of Nikki Johnson, who got to move behind-the-scenes on the museum and create nevertheless-lifestyles pix of items that intrigued her.

Fashioning Art from Paper at Louisville’s Speed Art Museum

A new showcase on the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY functions life-length costumes that appear like cloth but are simply crafted from paper. Beginning in 1994, Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave began developing these tremendous paper works. She ended up with four collections starting from the style of Elizabeth I to 20th century Venice and tributes to well-known artists like Picasso and Matisse. All 4 collections are a part of this showcase.

The museum made a video of the ‘unboxing’ of a number of the attire in the showcase.