A night at the FAA Museum

The Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton has announced that as part of a national initiative, it will hold a 'Night at the Museum' event on Friday May 14th. It will take place at the Museum's Reserve Collection store, called Cobham Hall, between the hours of 7pm and 10pm.

Night at the Museum promises to be an occasion to remember as there will be an opportunity to meet the curators, find out about how the Museum looks after its collection and learn more about the preservation of their own records and artefacts. Visitors will also have the chance to go on specialised tours of stores rarely open to the general public to see how the Museum cares for its documents, small objects and aviation collections.

The event is open to all and, says Museum Collections Manager Moira Gittos, "My colleagues and I will do our best to make the Reserve Collection come alive however I can't guarantee that it will be in quite the same way as it did in the film A Night at the Museum!"

Cobham Hall houses over thirty historic aircraft and some five miles of shelving accommodating many of the Museum's 2 million records and 30 thousand artefacts. Among these are: one of the largest collections of Westland Helicopters; a Supermarine 510, the first swept wing jet aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier; and the Gazelle helicopter in which HRH The Duke of York learnt to fly.

The Document Store contains records relating to members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines during WWI, together with technical manuals and drawings relating to a wide range of aircraft. The Small Objects Store houses a wide range of interesting and unusual artefacts ranging across the entire history of naval aviation.

Tickets will be available on the door at £5.00 each. Places on the tours will be limited and allocated on a first come first served basis.

For further information go to: www.fleetairarm.com

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