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Air Zoo Camps and Educational Programs include hands-on, science-based camps and classes that use the museum’s aerospace and science exhibits. Participants can experience Science Floor Shows, seasonal camps, scout programs, educational activities, historical exhibits, flight simulators, and indoor amusement park rides as part of the offerings.
• Schedule: Air Zoo Flight Centers' Hours: Mon - Sat: 9am-5pm; Sunday: noon - 5pm
The Air Zoo Camps and Educational Programs take place within a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum that features over 100 air and space artifacts, interactive exhibits, full-motion flight simulators, and indoor amusement park rides. The organization is led by President and CEO Troy Thrash and was founded in 1977. Its mission is to ignite curiosity, celebrate innovation, and connect history and science through past, present, and future dreams of flight. The museum includes Nationally Renowned Restoration and the Flight Discovery Center, a restoration program for WWII planes rescued from the bottom of Lake Michigan, a one-of-a-kind indoor mural that reaches 32 feet tall and 800 feet wide, a Women in Air & Space interactive timeline table, and exhibits such as Alien Worlds & Androids and Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight. It has been voted the “Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners” and “Best Place to Spend a Day with Your Family” three years in a row. One Trip Advisor review describes it as “very interesting educational and informational” with “something for young children up to adults,” and another notes that there are “rides for the whole family.”
Last updated May 13, 2026.
• Schedule: Air Zoo Flight Centers' Hours: Mon - Sat: 9am-5pm; Sunday: noon - 5pm
The Air Zoo Camps and Educational Programs take place within a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum that features over 100 air and space artifacts, interactive exhibits, full-motion flight simulators, and indoor amusement park rides. The organization is led by President and CEO Troy Thrash and was founded in 1977. Its mission is to ignite curiosity, celebrate innovation, and connect history and science through past, present, and future dreams of flight. The museum includes Nationally Renowned Restoration and the Flight Discovery Center, a restoration program for WWII planes rescued from the bottom of Lake Michigan, a one-of-a-kind indoor mural that reaches 32 feet tall and 800 feet wide, a Women in Air & Space interactive timeline table, and exhibits such as Alien Worlds & Androids and Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight. It has been voted the “Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners” and “Best Place to Spend a Day with Your Family” three years in a row. One Trip Advisor review describes it as “very interesting educational and informational” with “something for young children up to adults,” and another notes that there are “rides for the whole family.”
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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