Polish Aviation Museum
Polish Aviation Museum—*Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego w Krakowie*—opened its doors in 1964 on the grounds of Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport, which closed in 1963. That airfield dated back to 1912, when Austria-Hungary established it, making the site one of the oldest aviation fields in the world. For the museum’s first half century, exhibitions were spread across four surviving hangars from the airfield, buildings that were never meant to function as year-round display spaces and were notably uncomfortable in winter. The museum’s scale was substantial: by 2005 it held over 200 aircraft, including sailplanes and around 100 aircraft engines, alongside a major aviation library and photographic archives. Among its rarest holdings were 22 airplanes preserved from the Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung museum in Berlin, evacuated in World War II during and after 1941 to keep them safe as the air raids intensified. …
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