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Wednesday, Dec 28, 2022

New Interactive Touchscreen Brings Space Imagery into Focus

            The team at the Air Zoo is constantly looking for ways to provide our guests with new, original exhibit content. Some of the newest content brings our stunning images from Earth to Deep Field into focus! Our Picturing the Observable Universe digital kiosk welcomes you to enjoy an interpretive touchscreen experience as you discover more about each of these massive and vivid images and learn how we take pictures of space.  Explore ... Read More
Posted by Nikki Statler at Wednesday, Dec 28, 2022
Event Space Featured Exhibit interactive NASA New Exhibit Observable Universe planetary photography Space Fields Space Wall Touchscreen

Thursday, Sep 29, 2022

Local Middle School Students Provide Views to the Night Sky in Windows to the Universe Art + Science Exhibit

A teacher’s promise to his middle school students bloomed into an art-meets-science installation at the Air Zoo!  During the 2019-2020 school year, Portage Central Middle School teacher Doug Wilson made a pledge to his students. He told them that if their southern and northern hemispheres project turned out well, that he would find a place where their canvases could be viewed and enjoyed. We consider it a privilege that Doug allowed the Air Zoo to become the public venue for the st... Read More
Posted by Nikki Statler at Thursday, Sep 29, 2022
Featured Exhibit New Exhibit Portage Central Middle School science students Windows of the Universe Windows to the Universe

Friday, Jul 30, 2021

Go West, Mr. Parish

In the late 1940s, Air Zo co-founder Preston “Pete” Parish (1919-2020) averaged 3,000 miles a month en route from San Diego to Vancouver; Spokane to Salt Lake City; Phoenix to Los Angeles—but not by air!  Pete traveled by train, bus, and infrequently by car in a job he particularly enjoyed: Sales. Based out of Los Angeles, Pete found the work a pleasure. “I had a wonderful time,” he said in a 2001 oral history interview. Before relocating to the ... Read More
Posted by Nikki Statler at Friday, Jul 30, 2021
Co-founder Family Friendly Featured Exhibit History Kalamazoo Marine Corp New Exhibit Pete Parish Remembering Pete WWII

Monday, May 31, 2021

Astronaut Christina Koch

As we curate and install a beautiful new space-themed wallpaper and welcome a cosmically cool traveling exhibit, Be the Astronaut (May 28 – September 12, 2021), we’ve got space adventure fever! The same could be said for Michigan-born Christina Koch (b. 1979), whose longings for space travel drove her to “be the astronaut.”     As a child, Christina loved things that made her feel small: the oc... Read More
Posted by Nikki Statler at Monday, May 31, 2021
Christina Koch Collection exhibits Featured Exhibit NASA space exploration Women in Air and Space

Tuesday, Apr 9, 2019

Air Zoo to Debut Special Anniversary Exhibit, Memories & Milestones: 40 Years of the Air Zoo April 12

Portage, MI, April 9, 2019 – The Air Zoo proudly announces the grand opening of its next featured exhibit, Memories and Milestones: 40 Years of the Air Zoo, on Friday, April 12th at 9am. This exhibit is a celebration of the past 40 years of the Air Zoo’s commitment to sharing the wonders of aerospace and science with our community.   Air Zoo Exhibits and Collections Manager, April Bryan states “This is our first big in-house exhibit since I came on board at the A... Read More
Posted by Nikki Statler at Tuesday, Apr 9, 2019
1979 40th Anniversary exhibition Featured Exhibit Founder P-40 Peter Parish Sue Parish

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    Great place! Very interesting educational and informational! Great place to take the whole family as there is something for young children up to adults!

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    We took our grown daughters and young grandsons to the Air Zoo. It was very entertaining for all of us. There is so much to see and do. Rides for the whole family!

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