Museum, cafe and shop will be open for Christmas from 16 December

Update from our Chief Executive

We look forward to welcoming you back from Wednesday 16th December

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Hello,

I hope this finds you and your loved ones well. It has been such a strange year and I never thought that we’d have had to close the Museum for 4.5 months. However, thanks to the hard work of our staff and volunteers and the wonderful support we’ve received from all of you, we are still standing and can’t wait to reopen. However, having crunched the figures and looked at the forecasts, reopening on 02 December is not a sensible decision for us as these are our quietest months of the year. So for the next two months, our opening hours will be a bit different.

We are going to delay reopening the Museum and Apache Café until Wednesday 16 December. The Museum and Café will be open as normal for three weeks over the Christmas holidays (closed on 24, 25 and 26 Dec) and we will have craft packs for families to take away and a new trail installed. We will then review our January opening hours dependent on how the situation develops.

I want to make sure that we can go into 2021 in the best shape possible and I hope that these temporary measures will help us navigate the winter months.

But we are not standing still. Our Lockdown Lectures will continue, our Outreach & Education programmes will carry on, our online shop is still open and behind the scenes the team are working hard to make sure we’re ready for the new year.

Thank you so much for your continued support, and I cannot wait to see you in the Museum soon.

Lucy Johnson

Chief Executive

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The Collection

Get close to the story of Army Flying

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The Museum holds an extensive collection charting over 100 years of the British Army in the air. With over 35 fixed wing and rotary aircraft on display, the Museum is the perfect place to explore the fascinating history of army aviation.