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Location

This exhibition is located pre-security in the aviation museum in International Terminal–Departures Level adjacent to the entrance to Boarding Area A, San Francisco International Airport.

Price

Free

Hours

10:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday through Friday
Closed Saturdays and holidays

Contact info

650.821.9900
curator@flysfo.com
sfomuseum.org

Category

Exhibition

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  • Near BART
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Fancy Flying: Aviation at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition

SFO Museum
Oct 01, 2015 to Oct 18, 2015

An exhibition of twenty-one black and white photographs recently printed from vintage negatives including glass plates created by the Cardinell-Vincent Company on view in the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum at San Francisco International Airport. These selected images depict many of the famous aviators of the day and their daring feats above the Exposition where hundreds of thousands of fair-goers were first exposed to the “aeroplane” and the marvels of human flight.

This exhibition is located pre-security in the aviation museum in International Terminal–Departures Level adjacent to the entrance to Boarding Area A, San Francisco International Airport. The exhibition is on view to all Airport visitors from February 20 to August 31, 2015. The aviation museum is open from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM Sunday through Friday, closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free of charge.

 

 

 

 

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