Luftmuseum, Aviation museum in Amberg, Germany
The Luftmuseum is an aviation museum in Amberg spread across multiple floors of a historic building in the city center. The collection features exhibits about flight history, aircraft technology, and technical development from different periods.
The Luftmuseum was founded in 2006 on the initiative of the artist Wilhelm Koch and is run by the non-profit association Luftmuseum e. V. It occupies the Klösterl, a Gothic building from the early 14th century also known as the Engelsburg, which housed the Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate from 1991 to 2005. A fire in July 2011 destroyed much of the interior, but the exhibits were saved and the museum reopened in November 2011 with an exhibition by Wolfgang Groh.
The name Luftkunstort, protected since 2010, arose with the museum's opening. The permanent airparc trail groups its hands-on pieces into air experience, air technology and air variations, among them a pneumatic clock, a tube post and an aeolian harp. Temporary shows in the ground floor and the Gothic chapel cover design, architecture, art and technology.
The museum occupies the historic Klösterl, also called Engelsburg, directly on the bank of the Vils. Its 650 m² of exhibition space are spread over three floors: changing exhibitions on the ground floor and in the Gothic house chapel, the permanent airparc and the art and design collections upstairs. The building is a listed monument and not wheelchair accessible.
The building itself is easy to miss: the Gothic Klösterl, built at the start of the 14th century, was once part of the electoral residence and carries the house name Engelsburg. From 1991 to 2005 it housed the Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate before the Luftmuseum moved in.
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