The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is moving into the final stages of multiyear renovations which includes opening up new galleries and an IMAX theater in spring 2025.
The “At Home in Space” exhibition shows human spaceflight and future possibilities.
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The “Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight” gallery will open in 2025.
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The “Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall” exhibit will have the Apollo Lunar Module LM-2.
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The Flight and the Arts Center.
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The “Futures in Space” gallery will go into how advances in space exploration technology and enterprise will impact the future of space.
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The “How Things Fly” exhibit is focused on hands-on learning.
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The “Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air” exhibit shows the wartime revolution in technology in military aviation.
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The Modern Military Aviation gallery shows developments in aviation technology.
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The “National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe” exhibit has lenses at center to augment the starry sky and the Bruce Telescope.
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The “RTX Living in the Space Age” exhibit shows how innovations in space technology changed lives.
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The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibit reveals how wartime investments in aviation sped up the pace of development in aircraft design, performance and technology.
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The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is moving into the final stages of multiyear renovations which includes opening up new galleries and an IMAX theater in spring 2025.
Construction began in 2018 and the museum is currently open to the public amid the staged renovations. On Tuesday, the about the 12 galleries and exhibits that are expected to open by July 2026 鈥� just in time for its 50th anniversary.
The exhibits and galleries included in the final stage of renovations:
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The “Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight” and “Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall” galleries are expected to open in the spring of 2025, according to a news release. The Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater and the museum’s entrance on Jefferson Drive are also scheduled to open on that timeline.
The rest of the exhibits and galleries are expected to open by July 2026.
The museum was closed to the public in March 2022 for massive renovations before reopening in October of that year with eight new exhibits in which visitors needed to reserve free timed-entry passes.
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