Airstream announced today the grand opening of its Airstream Heritage Center, located inside the company’s headquarters in Jackson Center, Ohio.
The Heritage Center brings Airstream’s long history to life in a museum space that highlights more than 90 years of “globetrotting adventures and cutting-edge innovation,” while celebrating the thousands of associates who have helped build Airstreams by hand since 1931.
The Heritage Center will offer an immersive brand experience throughout a 16,000-square-foot exhibit space.
“For years, we’ve been looking for the right way to celebrate our history, and our new Heritage Center is a testament to the products that inspired generations of travelers, and the people who built this brand into an American icon,” said Bob Wheeler, Airstream president and CEO. “The vintage models, mementos, journals and films on display vividly illustrate how an Airstream is more than simply a recreational vehicle – it’s a vessel that holds the stories accumulated over years of travel and adventure.”
The Heritage Center’s Wally Byam Collection charts the Airstream founder’s life from his early days to his legacy, including rare childhood portraits and notebooks where he sketched ideas for his initial Airstream concepts and designs.
Other notable collections in the museum include more than 15 vintage Airstreams and a collection of original films and photographs of caravanners traveling around the world. In addition, selections from the Airstream Archives on display document nine decades and counting of company history, including product testing films, brochures, engineering drawings, newspaper articles, plans for NASA’s Mobile Quarantine Facilities and more.
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