Telling the stories of how your grandparents met. How World War II was won. How your child’s eyes widened when you showed them the ocean for the first time. How your favorite musician with talent and a dream went from playing the corner bar to booking a worldwide tour. How a family in a refugee camp dreaming of a better life for their family found peace in a new land.
In just a few generations, airlines connected the entire world. Their work introduced us to new places of wonder, new songs and films and storytelling, new cuisine, new science and engineering, new opportunities for business. The personal connections they enabled helped countless millions be fed, for families to form, for new communities to come together.
Our work is to tell these stories, personal and global, examining and celebrating the impact of commercial aviation, and the legacy of Northwest Airlines and its family tree in particular.
We invite you to explore this growing website and visit our physical museum in Bloomington, Minnesota – just across the freeway from MSP International Airport and minutes from the Mall of America.
- Learn more about our organization’s mission and history
- Get directions to our museum and see how you can contact us
- Join us through contributions, memberships, and volunteering
- See how we’ve been featured in the press and video media
- Read over ten years’ issues of our quarterly journal, REFLECTIONS
Our museum location has been affected by sprinkler flooding from an upper floor at the Crowne Plaza AiRE Hotel – we have closed it to the public while damage assessments and cleaning are underway. Please check our social media feeds on Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, or Threads for current status.
