It's Ask a Curator day! What would you like to know about SFO Museum? Questions will be answered by Curators, Registrars, Conservators, and other museum staff. Reply below with your questions! #AskACurator#Musesocial#museumlifeThis tweet was posted on September 12, 2018.
Looking for a little design inspiration? Browse a selection of airline and aircraft manufacturing advertisements from the 1920s to the present in our online database!
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#museumlife#avgeek#aviationThis tweet was posted on February 28, 2022.
People often ask: “Where is the museum at SFO?” One answer is: The airport is the museum! Read about an experimental web-based wayfinding tool we’ve built to guide you to and from gates and artwork. Give it a try and send us feedback! https://t.co/Up6idAOteO
#museumlife#SFOThis tweet was posted on March 14, 2023.
The work requires assembling, documenting, photographing, and disassembling the models. This particular aircraft is a remote controlled 1:3.5 scale model of a Davis D-1 with a functional radial engine. #BehindtheScenes#AvGeek#MuseumMonday#MuseumLifeThis tweet was posted on November 22, 2021.
These boots were made for walking, but that’s not what they’ll do (anymore). Browse our online database to see some of the shoes in our collection: https://t.co/TAOP6INNmo
#AvGeek#shoes#boots#collections#MuseumLifeThis tweet was posted on August 22, 2022.
What does it take to maintain our collections space? For one thing, a LOT of cleaning. Staff perform routine maintenance in our collection spaces including cleaning in between the rails of our compact shelving. Kudos to our collections team! #museumlife#BehindTheScenes https://t.co/QcA9dfFW3UThis tweet was posted on February 11, 2019.
What's going on at the museum? One of our preparators, Thai, is starting work on a mount for our upcoming insects’ exhibition. All of the mounts in our exhibitions are built in-house by our team of fantastic preparators. #museumlife#behindthescenes#IntriguingInsectsThis tweet was posted on April 18, 2019.
What's happening in the museum? We've built a mount for a large object to be displayed in our new exhibition, "Aluminum: The Miracle Metal of Aviation" Can you guess what the object is? #avgeek#behindthescenes#Aluminum#museumlifeThis tweet was posted on March 11, 2019.