The Polish Air Museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego) may very well not be one museum that every single tourist wants to go to, but if you like aviation history and old airplanes, it is worth a visit.
It is in a suburb of Krakow at a historic airfield about 7 km (four.3 miles) east of the Old Town. The museum took more than a handful of buildings and part of the grounds of the Rakowice-Czyzny airfield, one of the oldest military airfields in Europe.
It was an active airfield up through Globe War II. After that the expanding city of Krakow encroached on the field. The military moved out and finally so did commercial aviation. Activity at the airfield stopped in 1963.
The outside aircraft are heavy on sorts not noticed in Western Europe and North America. The outdoor lineup we call "MiG Alley" is impressive even if the aircraft have noticed greater days. There are old Tupolevs, crop sprayers and Soviet-era rocket launchers. Most are not in perfect situation, but you won't see issues like this at household.
Two indoor displays had us running about with my hubby saying, "I've in no way noticed that just before... only in pictures," or "I in no way thought I'd see that!" What triggered the excitement? Some of his favorites were a Tupolev Tu-25, a Grigorovich M-15, and a couple of Yakolevs... a Yak-17 and Yak 23.
There will soon be a new making at the Polish Air Museum. We saw it beneath construction, and we'd really like to see what the exhibits will appear like when it is finished.
You can take a taxi or a tram. From the center of town near the Most important Railway station you can catch a quantity of trams.... We took tram Quantity four out and Quantity ten back to the center of town. Do not go to the Czyzny quit... as we identified out the really hard way, this is a couple of stops too far.
The quit just before the museum is Wieczysta. If you miss that one, watch the side of the road, and you are going to see the Polish Air Museum logo. You can get off at the subsequent quit and walk back that quit soon after the museum is referred to as VWA. Do not ask what that stands for... just get off at the quit if you missed the to begin with one.
Either way, walk a short way on Aleja Jana Pawla II, then a couple of hundred meters up a street referred to as Mariana Markowshiego which goes through the park and up to the museum. The walk is about the very same distance from either tram quit.
The address of the museum is Aleja Jana Pawla II 39, but the museum is tucked into the Park Lotnikow Polskich and behind some apartments. It is open from 9:00 am - five:00 pm Tuesdays through Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays the hours are ten:00 am - four:00 pm.
The gates and ticket office close 30 minutes just before closing time. The museum is closed on Mondays, but you can walk about the outdoor exhibits. Attempt to get there on a day when the making are open the actually old aircraft are all inside buildings.
If you like aviation history and old planes, take a half a day away from Old Town Krakow and visit the Polish Aviation Museum.
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