Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

The Aviation Museum blends the requirements of an aircraft hangar with a museum and showcases the museum’s wide-ranging collection as well as the stories and histories the objects reveal. The collection includes examples of aircraft and artifacts ranging from bush planes to transport, military, private and commercial aircraft.  The museum is visually lightly clad and appears to gently hover above the ground. Its shape, height and planning are inspired by the immediate airport context. Its structural steel skeleton is skinned with metal panels and glass that act as an architectural expression of aircraft construction. Where the visitor encounters and touches the building, wood accents relate to the experience of an older wood-framed aircraft.