Metropolitan Museum Celebrates 35th Anniversary of Packard Collection Acquisition
Installation dates: December 17, 2009 – June 6, 2010 Location: The Sackler Wing Galleries for the Arts of Japan, 2nd Floor New York, N.Y. – In 1975, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works of Japanese art from collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914-1991). This daring acquisition instantly [...]
Images of the Week: Northwest Douglas DC-3
The Delta Museum has been working hard this year to collect and preserve Northwest Airlines history in the Delta Corporate Archives housed in Atlanta. A highlight of the incoming materials has turned out to be 2 small photo albums of black and white photos taken in 1939. They show what it was like to fly and work in Northwest’s [...]
Wrap Up: Delta Museum Collectibles Show/Sale
We really enjoyed hosting this year’s Airline Collectibles Show and Sale in Atlanta on October 17th. Close to 700 aviation memorabilia vendors, collectors and enthusiasts of all ages joined us in Delta’s Historic Hangars 1 and 2, and we raised over $16,000 for the non-profit Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum. Visit the Museum’s Flickr page [...]
It’s Not Even Your Birthday, Yet I Come Bearing Gifts
Ok, so in the column of information you didn’t know about me, this month I celebrate my birthday (How nice of you! I heard that big collective internet “ahhhhhhh.” And I’m glad that so many of you have already been shopping for new tiaras for me.). Now we all know that on birthdays, the birthday [...]
Delta Museum Airline Collectibles Show, Sale
Are you an aviation collector or always wanted to be? Bring your family and friends and come out to the 23rd Annual Atlanta Airline Collectibles Show and Sale. Hosted by the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum, the event takes place Saturday, October 17 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Delta’s historic aircraft hangars. Fifty vendors will offer [...]