Paris Air and Space Museum - the oldest and one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. It is located in the suburb of Le Bourget, in the former Paris Airport Terminal. Here paradise for men and children: can touch the exhibits, they climb on them go.

The history of the museum began in 1919, when the eminent French engineer, head of the French Air Force Technical Service Albert Kako invited the Government to establish a museum of aeronautics. Kako It marked the beginning of the collection, which is housed in the south-west Paris, Issy-les-Moulineaux. In 1921 the museum moved to a chalet-Meudon, a suburb where the 1880 were built balloons and airships. When in 1974, Paris has found a new airport Charles de Gaulle, gave the museum space of the former airport, "Le Bourget".

Huge space "Le Bourget" (Airport has long been the size of the second in Europe after the Berlin "Tempelhof") for large exhibits occurred at the time. There is a pavilion dedicated to the supersonic "Concorde" - it exposed the aircraft itself, within which you can see just about anything. The two-deck giant "747" are available for viewing even engines.

The museum's collection begins chronologically with works by Leonardo da Vinci. The oldest of the local aircraft heavier than air - Glider "Mass Bio" (1879). Next - the first mass flight "Demoiselle", built in France, the Brazilian Santos Dumont (1907). On the "Bleriot XI» aviator Louis Bleriot first crossed the Channel - in 1909, the event was seen as a flight around the moon. The first seaplane Henri Fabre (1910), monoplane "Moran-Saulnier", which Roland Garros for the first time flew over the Mediterranean Sea ... And then - a heavy carrier rocket "Ariane 5", towering over the whole complex.

The museum - is not only airplanes and helicopters. It operates perfectly equipped with a planetarium that is easy to make an exciting virtual journey through the solar system. On special simulators can feel like a fighter pilot or a passenger aircraft. You can wander around the space station, to see how people live and work in space.