MUSEU AEROESPACIAL - CAMPO DOS AFONSOS - RIO DE JANEIRO

AEROSPACE MUSEUM: Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday. Start of visits: 9:00 AM / Gates close: 3:30 PM / End of visits: 4:00 PM Free entry to the museum and parking (except during major events, when there will be a special traffic and parking scheme) The Aerospace Museum - MUSAL is the largest and most important aviation museum in Brazil. Located in Campo dos Afonsos, the cradle of Brazilian aviation, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, it was inaugurated on October 18, 1976. It has been under the Historical-Cultural Institute of Aeronautics (INCAER) since 1986. Its collection consists of various aircraft, engines, weapons and objects related to the history of Aeronautics and Brazilian aviation, in addition to extensive historical documentation. On permanent display are approximately eighty aircraft, including a faithful replica of the 14 Bis, the first heavier-than-air aircraft built by Santos Dumont. It also has twelve themed exhibition rooms and a restoration hangar. History Logo: The institution also has its own coat of arms. The idea for an Aeronautical Museum dates back to 1943, when Salgado Filho, then Minister of Aeronautics, ordered its organization. Initial work and subsequent attempts were interrupted due to a lack of available space. Emblem: Thirty years later, responding to the statement of reasons from Araripe Macedo, then Minister of Aeronautics, President Emílio Garrastazu Médici created the Aerospace Museum Nucleus on July 31, 1973, through Decree No. 72,553. In January of the following year, restoration work began on the building and hangars (the former "Flight Instruction Division of the Aeronautics School"), simultaneously with the collection of artifacts, restoration of aircraft, engines, weapons, and other pieces of historical value. Inaugurated on October 18, 1976, the Aerospace Museum's main objective is to preserve and disseminate aeronautical material and historical documents for future generations. Located in Campo dos Afonsos, known as the "Cradle of Brazilian Aviation," the Aerospace Museum receives administrative support from the Air Force University (UNIFA) and the Afonsos Support Group (GAP-AF). Originally created to preserve the memory of the Brazilian Air Force, the museum's collection includes the main aircraft previously operated by the FAB, as well as by the Brazilian Naval Aviation and the Brazilian Army Aviation, which preceded it. It currently preserves not only military aviation but also the development of aviation and the aeronautical industry itself. Brazilian. It has a bibliographic collection with approximately five thousand works, in addition to an important historical archive containing documents, photographs, negatives, and films. Visitors can also learn about the Brazilian Space Program, which originated from the FAB's efforts in the exhibition "Early Days of Brazilian Aviation." Through exchange programs, the museum has received donations of aircraft never operated in Brazil, but of great relevance, placing the museum on the international military museum circuit. In 2012, the collection received five more aircraft: an AT 26 Xavante 4462, the first of the FAB, built in 1971, an AT-26A Impala, a U7 Seneca, a G-19 Ipanema tug, a Boeing 737-200 FAB VC 96, which transported eight presidents of the Republic, and a flight simulator cabin of the F-5E Tiger II. Source: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_A...