Excursion museum NLR Amsterdam
Description
The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is, certainly within the Netherlands, a unique institute. Not only that there is no other institute within our country that is engaged in aerospace research as such, but due to its age of over 90 years, the NLR, with its predecessors RSL and NLL, has experienced almost the entire era of aviation in the Netherlands and even contributed to it to a significant extent. For these reasons, historically interesting items should be preserved and made accessible to those interested. Fortunately, the opportunity arose in 1985 to set up a company museum in the LST (for Lage Snelheids Tunnel) building in Amsterdam. So - after a modest start - the museum has now existed for 25 years; in that time it has been able to expand considerably. As will be seen, there is still a lot of interesting things left over from past years.
The work necessary to maintain and expand this museum is carried out by volunteers, a group of early retirement and NLR pensioners.
Several buildings of the Amsterdam branch of the NLR were designed by H.A. Maaskant and date from 1939/1940; they have the status of National Monument
Motorists: Free parking on arrival; report "excursion" at the barrier
10.30 h Reception in the hall of the Main Entrance.
11.00 Welcome and Presentation in the Museum
12:00 Simple lunch (cost €5 pp, payable on arrival)
13:00 Guided tour
14:15 (optional): short tour of wind tunnel (if not high security status at that time)
Location
Anthony Fokkerweg 2, 1059 CM Amsterdam
Organiser
History of Technology
Histechnica
Name and contact details for information
Further information from L.A. Hissink at the e-mail address below.
Apply via
at L.A. Hissink, via
hissinkla@planet.nl