The Polish Aviation Museum

The Polish Air Museum (Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego) can not be one particular museum that each tourist wants to go to, but if you like aviation background and old airplanes, it's worth a go to.

It is in a suburb of Krakow at a historic airfield about 7 km (four.three miles) east of the Old Town. The museum took more than a few buildings and component of the grounds of the Rakowice-Czyzny airfield, one particular of the oldest military airfields in Europe.

It was an active airfield up by means of Globe War II. Soon after that the expanding city of Krakow encroached on the field. The military moved out and lastly so did commercial aviation. Activity at the airfield stopped in 1963.

The outdoors aircraft are heavy on types not seen in Western Europe and North America. The outdoor lineup we call "MiG Alley" is impressive even if the aircraft have seen greater days. There are old Tupolevs, crop sprayers and Soviet-era rocket launchers. Most are not in remarkable condition, but you will not see points like this at household.

Two indoor displays had us running about with my hubby saying, "I've never seen that before... only in photographs," or "I never believed I'd see that!" What triggered the excitement? Some of his favorites had been 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 creating at the Polish Air Museum. We saw it under construction, and we'd appreciate to see what the exhibits will look like when it's finished.

You can take a taxi or a tram. From the center of town near the Principal Railway station you can catch a number of trams.... We took tram Number four out and Number 10 back to the center of town. Do not go to the Czyzny stop... as we located out the difficult way, this is a couple of stops also far.

The stop before the museum is Wieczysta. If you miss that one particular, watch the side of the road, and you'll see the Polish Air Museum logo. You can get off at the next stop and walk back that stop following the museum is referred to as VWA. Do not ask what that stands for... just get off at the stop if you missed the first one particular.

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 by means of the park and up to the museum. The walk is about the identical distance from either tram stop.

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 - 5:00 pm Tuesdays by means of Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays the hours are 10:00 am - four:00 pm.

The gates and ticket workplace close 30 minutes before closing time. The museum is closed on Mondays, but you can walk about the outdoor exhibits. Try to get there on a day when the creating are open the truly old aircraft are all inside buildings.

If you like aviation background and old planes, take a half a day away from Old Town Krakow and go to the Polish Aviation Museum.

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