The predecessor of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Museum of Beihang University is the Beijing Aviation Museum. Established in 1985, it was expanded on the basis of the aircraft structure exhibition room and aircraft hangar of Beihang University. It is a comprehensive science and technology museum of aerospace science and technology in China. After nearly four years of new construction on the original site and expansion of exhibits, the museum reopened and was renamed on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the university in 2012.
It integrates teaching, popular science and cultural inheritance. It is an important base for aerospace popular science and culture, Beihang spirit, and youth patriotism and national defense education. The museum exhibition area is divided into four exhibition areas: Chasing Dreams in the Sky, Silver Eagle Patrolling the Sky, Shenzhou Asking Heaven, and Aerospace Corridor. More than 300 recognized domestic and foreign aerospace cultural relics and precious objects such as structures, engines, and airborne equipment carry rich scientific principles and profound historical accumulations. The exhibits also show the principles of aerospace and the history of human flight through high-tech means. As a university museum, in addition to directly undertaking the teaching practice tasks of the national excellent course ‘Introduction to Aeronautics and Astronautics’ and core professional courses such as aircraft engines, aircraft structures, landing gear structures, and spacecraft design, it also treasures more than 30 aircraft from the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries before the founding of New China. In particular, the number and grade of the’spider widow’ fighter planes are second to none in the national aviation field. Opening hours: Open from 09:00 to 16:30 from Monday to Saturday all year round; Closed all day on Sunday all year round. Currently, it is only open to teachers, students, relatives and friends, and alumni on campus, and not open to the public for the time being.Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Museum
The predecessor of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Museum of Beihang University is the Beijing Aviation Museum. Established in 1985, it […]
