9 MUSEUMS TO BE VISITED IN THE US
Americans have inherited from Europeans a virtuous cultural trace, the obstinacy for preserving their memory, especially in areas where they have exerted some protagonism. Aeronautical museums spread throughout the country reveal the affection of the United States for the aircrafts that tell its history. For who likes to know more about the aviation past, we have prepared an itinerary with the most essential in the land of the Wright brothers, including mandatory stops and many curiosities.
1 AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
To begin with, nothing better than the Smithsonian Institute, simply the world’s largest museum complex and research institute. Most of its units are located at the National Mall, in Washington DC, the American capital city.
Begin your tour by the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), in Washington, the most popular among the National Mall units. The ample two-story building, inaugurated in 1976, shares its focus between aviation and astronautics. In it, the visitor may enjoy the twenty three galleries where there are exposed hundreds of original items and replicas of aircrafts, spacecrafts, missiles, rockets and other flight related artifacts. In the aviation, stand out the solo journey of Charles Lindbergh over the Atlantic in his Spirit of St. Louis, the first American jet aircraft (the Aircomet Bell XP-59A), the Bell X-1 (in which “Chuck” Yeager broke the mythic “sound barrier”
