List of United States Air Force museums facts for kids
The United States Air Force maintains a number of Field Museums and Heritage Centers.
Current museums
- National Museum of the United States Air Force – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
- Air Force Armament Museum – Eglin AFB, near Valparaiso, Florida
- Air Force Flight Test Center Museum – Edwards AFB, near North Edwards and Rosamond, California
- Air Force Space and Missile Museum – Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, north of Patrick Space Force Base and Cocoa Beach, Florida
- Air Mobility Command Museum – Dover AFB, near Dover, Delaware
- Barksdale Global Power Museum – Barksdale AFB, near Bossier City, Louisiana
- Enlisted Heritage Research Institute – Maxwell AFB, Alabama
- Hill Aerospace Museum – northwest of Hill AFB, near Ogden, Utah
- Malmstrom AFB Museum – Malmstrom AFB, Montana
- McChord Air Museum – McChord AFB, near Tacoma, Washington
- Museum of Aviation – near Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia
- Peterson Air and Space Museum – Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Sheppard AFB Heritage Center – Sheppard AFB, Texas
- South Dakota Air and Space Museum – Box Elder, South Dakota (outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB)
- Thunderbirds Museum – Nellis AFB, near Las Vegas, Nevada
- Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center – Travis AFB, near Fairfield, California
- USAF Airman Heritage Museum – Lackland AFB, Texas
- Warren ICBM and Heritage Museum – F.E. Warren AFB, near Cheyenne, Wyoming
Closed museums
- Beale Air Force Base Museum – Beale Air Force Base, east of Marysville, California (closed in February 1995)
- Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine – Brooks City-Base, San Antonio, Texas (closed in 2011)
- USAF Security Forces Museum – Lackland AFB, next to San Antonio, Texas (closed in August 2014)
Former museums
These museums were once part of the Air Force museum system, but have since become private:
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