PLEASE NOTE:
Due to ongoing preparations for a potential building move, our team's reply-to inquiry times may be longer than usual. In addition, some materials may be inaccessible at times. While you wait to hear from us, we invite you to explore our Digital Collection.
Thank you for your inquiry and patience. We look forward to assisting you!
The Museum of Flight’s collection is considered one of the best air and space museum collections in the world.
The Museum's collection includes 150 aircraft, over 25,000 small objects (classified as anything smaller than an aircraft), over 90,000 books and periodicals, over 18,000 aircraft manuals and other technical documents, and nearly 5,000 cubic feet of archival materials, including over a million images.
We have several online resources available to help explore the Museum's collection:
- For library materials, including books, periodicals and manuals, search the Library Catalog
- For small objects, like models, toys, pins and patches, explore the Objects Database
- For archival materials, such as historical documents, photographs, technical drawings, personal papers, and printed ephemera, search the Archives Database
- For all digitized materials, explore the Digital Collection
- For in-person and remote research assistance, please explore the Kenneth H. Dahlberg Research Center
If you’re interested in donating materials or artifacts to The Museum of Flight's collection, please see our Artifact Donation page:
Questions? Please contact Curator@museumofflight.org
