The Museum of Flight’s fundamental goals are: to acquire and preserve a wide array of materials and artifacts relating to aviation and space history and to provide a center for the scholarly research of these materials and artifacts. The Museum holds one of the largest and most comprehensive air and space collections in the United States, containing millions of rare photographs and negatives, a world-class library, tens of thousands of artifacts, and over 150 rare aircraft and space vehicles.

The Museum exists to serve the public and much of the Museum’s information, resources, and materials are available to anyone who is interested—including visitors, researchers, scholars, historians, Museum program participants and teachers.