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Old 22 December 2011, 10:45 AM   #1
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That is too bad. I always enjoyed visiting there whenever I had business in Amsterdam. Hope they can keep the collection together somehow. Doc
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All will be double locked and area will be converted in some kind of play yard... Very sad
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Sreiko,
Thank you for this very sad news. A wonderful collection, specifically the between wars Fokker aircraft. Glad that I had the opportunity to visit.
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That is too bad. I always enjoyed visiting there whenever I had business in Amsterdam. Hope they can keep the collection together somehow. Doc
The Aviodrome is not in or around Amsterdam (airfield Schiphol) but is in the middle of nowhere near Lelystad. It is sometimes given as one of the reasons why the attendance for the museum was not high enough. Another reason given in the press was that income from conferences / hiring of rooms fell dramatically last year.

Some of the exhibitions are not the property of the Aviodrome but of a trust. An example is the beautifully restored B.A.T. FK.23 fighter of WW1 vintage. A few months ago it was announced by the trust that the B.A.T. was acquired by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Rijksmuseum krijgt vleugels met historisch vliegtuig van Frits Koolhoven - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, het museum van Nederland

I have no information when the machine will come to the Rijksmuseum and where and how it will be exhibited. Maybe in between the famous Rembrandt paintings ?

Another specialty in the archive of the Aviodrome is the Fokker archive, which AFAIK is also the property of a trust, just as a big part of the library came from elsewhere in 2008 (see news item)

NBLR draagt luchtvaartcollectie over aan Aviodrome - KNVvL

The curator has the unenviable task to sort out the collections in the museum which are the property of the Aviodrome and to sell them.
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