Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, Shropshire
Admission is free to the museum in the West Midlands, which houses 70 aircraft and is home to War Planes, Missiles, Transport & Training and Research & Development collections. The National Cold War Exhibition with its interactive kiosks and hotspots gives visitors a chance to see what life was like behind the Iron Curtain.
Latest News: 28 August 2008
Swing By For Big Tunes & Smooth Moves
Members of the public are invited to join the Aerospace Museum Society’s popular 1940’s Hangar Dance at the Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford on Saturday 4th October.
The event will be located in the Museum’s Warplanes Hangar with guests encouraged to “Get in the Mood” by donning wartime costume for the evening. Dancing will be until late with music supplied by Paul Drakeley and his All Stars Band and Singers, performing tracks from Big Band favourites such as Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. To further add to the event’s ambience the entire evening is set against a backdrop of wartime aircraft and artifacts including the world’s oldest Spitfire and the famous Lincoln Bomber.
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R A F Museum Awarded 10/10 For Value
The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford and its award winning National Cold War Exhibition received a 10 out of 10 rating in Central TV’s News ‘Best Value Kids Attraction' as seen by viewers on 12th August.
The Museum was particularly praised for being “dynamic”. ITV Central presenter Llewela Bailey and her son Harry were “bowled over” by the National Cold War Exhibition, which is “brilliantly put together” so much so that after spending just a few hours at the Museum they felt visitors needed more than a single day at the Museum as there was so much to take in.
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Take a Virtual Tour of the National Cold War Exhibition
Little Darlings Driving You Mad?
Take them to a Nuclear Hotspot!
If the school holidays are currently filling you with dread, particularly if you are scratching your head about how you are going to entertain your little darlings when the household budget is being stretched to the max, why not give them a day out at the Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford?
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Attenshun! Families Wanted For Free Fun
Friday 1st August - Sunday 31st August 2008.
Sessions run from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and 1:30pm to 3:30pm.
Children are naturally curious, always into everything and always wanting to experience something new and exciting.
In these days of credit crunch and tight family budgets quite often it is difficult to cater for their sense of exploration particularly when every new toy or day out costs so much. Yet for children, early exploration is an important part of their emotional and natural development particularly when done with mum and dad.
With this in mind the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford has created a range of free fun activities for August, to get families working together as a team without them having to spend a single penny out of the household budget.
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Find out what other free activities are taking place at the Museum
August's Podcast Now Online
The Royal Air Force has long played a key role in humanitarian and disaster relief operations, both in Britain and overseas. This podcast summarises the Royal Air Force's involvement in humanitarain operations throughout its history, in areas of conflict or natural disaster and accidents.
Listen to August's Podcast
Navigator Online Collection - August Highlights
Navigator is the Royal Air Force Museum's online collection catalogues and gives you access to thousands of items from the collection. You can browse selected highlights, perform searches and view items in different layouts.
This month two new highlights have been added to Navigator; "Airfield Buildings" and "Hawker Siddley".
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Two New Awards Fly In For Aviation Museum
The Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford is proud to be awarded two new accolades after already being crowned ‘Best of the West’ at the Renaissance West Midlands Awards earlier in April.
Staff and volunteers at RAF Museum Cosford are celebrating after Servicemark, the National Standard for Customer Service, granted the Museum a Silver Award.
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Discover Us On Facebook And Become A Fan
We would love you to share with us your pictures and memories of our London Museum by joining our Fan page on Facebook; particularly if you have attended any recent events on site.
In return we promise to keep our page updated on a regular basis so that you are made aware of future events once they have been confirmed and to place regularly on the page exclusive images and videos of the people and events that bring the Museum to life. To reward your loyalty we will hold regular competitions and run special offers which only members of our Facebook Fan Club will be able to take advantage of.
All that you need to do is to login to your Facebook account, search for us under Royal Air Force Museum and start interacting.
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V Force: Ready For The Unthinkable
An RAF Museum publication sheds fresh light on the legendary V Force.
‘V Force – Ready for the unthinkable’ tells the extraordinary story of the most iconic group of post-war aircraft; the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan nuclear group. Above all else, it is these aircraft that kept Britain at the top table of international politics by ensuring that the United Kingdom could deploy its own independent nuclear deterrent.
The book, published for the Royal Air Force Museum by Newsdesk Media, features some newly uncovered information on the V Force and traces its history from the early design stages to the end of their service life, including operations in the Falkland Islands.
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Dambusters Anniversary Publication Uncovers Hidden History
A new book produced to coincide with the 65th Anniversary of the legendary Dams Raid uncovers elements of hidden history crucial to the success of 617 Squadron’s attack on the German Dams in May 1943.
The book produced for the Royal Air Force Museum by Newsdesk Media Group is titled ‘BREACHING THE GERMAN DAMS – FLYING INTO HISTORY’ and has been written by Robert Owen, the Official Historian of the No. 617 Squadron Aircrew Association, and Richard Morris, author of acclaimed biographies of Wing Commanders Guy Gibson VC and Leonard Cheshire VC. The foreword is by New Zealander, Les Munro, the sole remaining pilot to have taken part in the epic operation.
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Purchase Breaching the Dams - Flying into History
The exhibitions at Cosford contain only a fraction of the overall holdings of the RAF Museum. In London, at Hendon, the Royal Air Force Museum London displays an equally large and important part of our collection.
