Drawing on Display

This beautiful pencil drawing of the OX-5 powered Travel Air 2000 that’s on display at the museum was made by homeschool student Kale. Amazing job! Aviation has inspired artists from the very first flight, and it’s super cool to see the art our visitors make. We love having kids and

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Story Time!

It’s Story Time! The Brodhead Public Library staff is in the museum today filming this week’s story time about airplanes. We’ll post the link on Friday.

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Movie Night is Live

“Men with Wings” is now playing.

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Pizza & A Movie

Pizza is here! Join us for pizza and a movie at our Museum Movie night. “Men with Wings” starts at 8:00 pm. Thanks to Jesse’s Stone Oven Pizza for sponsoring the event!

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Museum Movie Night 09/10

Join us for Museum Movie Night this Friday September 10th at 7:30pm! We’ll be showing “Men With Wings” and serving pizza, and it’s all open to the public. The movie is from 1938 – and one of the airplanes in it is now partially on display in our collection! Pizza

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Curtiss OX-5

We have added a rare and unique antique airplane engine to our collection, thanks to Sue and Terry Donaldson, owners of the House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin. This Curtiss OX-5 is believed to be from Charles Lindbergh’s first airplane, a Curtiss JN4DC “Jenny” and it fits perfectly

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“In The 608” Show

A big thanks to Josh and crew from Channel 3000 for visiting the museum this morning. Check out all four clips from today’s “In The 608” show and see our new museum up close!

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We’re Live!

We’re live “In the 608” on channel3000.com Watch us again at 5:45, 6:15, and 6:45 am as we show off the new museum. Livestream it too!

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Tune In For A Virtual Tour

Madison area friends, we’ll be live on WISC-TV channel 3 morning news program tomorrow between 5:15 AM and 6:45 AM. Tune in for a tour of the new museum with our staff!

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Amazing Views From Kelch Museum Patio

A couple of powered paraglider pilots (try saying that ten times quickly!) dropped in to visit. Brodhead Airport hosts all kinds of air traffic, and you can watch the runways from the museum’s patio. Remember, we are open Wednesdays through Sundays 10am-4pm. https://fb.watch/7UTlFf58ae/

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