The newest exhibit at our museum – dedicated to the evolution of cabin seating – is starting to take shape! We’ve had the World Business Class seats professionally moved from our Eden Prairie archive over to Bloomington, lifted up to the third floor and through the fire doors. We also moved over original wicker chairs from the Ford Tri-Motor that we’ve had in storage. Our Finance Director, Jeff Schwalen, constructed plywood boxes to set our seats upon, and several volunteers came in last month to rearrange display cases and our famous gong to make room.
Above each seat pair we are also hanging a model of the corresponding aircraft in the colors it was flying while these seats were in use.
Professional museum exhibit designers are being contacted to request quotes for a fully-realized backdrop with signage, flooring, and lighting, but while that process plays out you can see our volunteer-led, week-by-week tweaks and enhancements to the display.