The Museum will be closing early on May 31st for our Legacy of Apollo event. Final admission will be at 2:30pm with the Museum closing at 3pm.
The Library & Archives also encourages monetary support for publications and projects to enhance its collections and services. For further details on these needed items, click on the links below.
NHPRC Grant for Rohr Collection
The San Diego Air & Space Museum has reached a significant milestone with the acquisition of a $150,000 federal grant. This substantial funding is a crucial step towards our goal of cataloging, digitizing, and rehousing 170,000 images from the Rohr/Goodrich Corporation. The two-year federal grant, awarded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission of the National Archives and Records Administration, is a testament to the Museum’s Library & Archives Department’s dedication and will significantly advance the Museum’s digitization project.
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NEH Funded Convair Negative Digitization
The San Diego Air & Space Museum’s Library & Archives recently received a three-year Federal grant of $334,000 from the National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) to process, catalog, and digitize 120,000 historic photo negatives from the Consolidated/Convair/General Dynamics Corporation in San Diego.
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Digitization of Historic Newspapers
The Library and Archives has been digitizing historic newspapers and newsletters from important Aerospace companies, such as Convair/General Dynamics.
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Digitizing the Still and Moving Image Collection
Over the past several years, our Library &Archives (L&A) staff and volunteers have digitized over 300,000 images and placed them on Flickr.com. We believe ours is now the largest aviation related image collection on the web, and it has become very well known among aviation enthusiasts, worldwide. Our digitized collection is so popular, according to the Flickr.com statistics page, that our images have now surpassed 300 million views. We have also digitized over to 5,000 films and placed them on YouTube.
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