Review by Kris Christiaens of the Flugausstellung Peter Junior aviation museum in Hermeskeil, Germany. This museum is a spectacular, family-run aviation museum that brings together over 100 aircraft from around the world, spanning early propeller planes to Cold War jets and massive transport airliners. Its unique mix of civil, military, and rare helicopters, combined with immersive exhibits like the full-size Concorde café, offers visitors a hands-on journey through aviation

If you are looking for an overall view of Belgian civil and military aviation, then the Brussels Air Museum is the perfect place for you. This museum, housed in a gigantic hall that is part of the impressive Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels, presents an impressive collection of vintage aircraft, transport planes, warbirds, fighter planes, and helicopters that once played a role in Belgian aviation.

The Technik Museum Speyer in Germany is one of Europe’s most impressive museums dedicated to aviation, space exploration, and technology. Visitors can explore a vast collection that includes the Boeing 747, the Antonov An-22, the Buran space shuttle, submarines, classic cars, locomotives, and hundreds of other exhibits. In this in-depth review, aviation photographer Kris Christiaens tells us all about this impressive museum.

Tucked into the pine-fringed landscape north of Berlin, the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt is the kind of museum that feels less like a sanitized exhibition space and more like a reclamation project, a living scrap-heap of Cold War metal, stories and engineering. If you love the smell of old hydraulic fluid, the geometry of swept wings and the particular poetry of Soviet jet design, a day here will supply equal parts nostalgia, technical delight and the occasional boot-sinking int

For anyone who still gets goosebumps at the sight of a tail-fin or who can recite Fokker type numbers in their sleep, Aviodrome at Lelystad Airport is a museum that rewards curiosity. It’s not a sterile “glass case” collection: Aviodrome combines big-airliner spectacle (yes, there’s a real KLM Boeing 747 outside you can board), intimate classics in hangars, a reconstructed 1928 Schiphol terminal, interactive flightsims, and a surprisingly deep slice of Dutch aviation history.