The National Air and Space Museum of France, officially known as the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, is one of the most important aviation museums in the world. Located at Paris–Le Bourget Airport, just northeast of central Paris, it occupies a historic airfield that played a central role in early commercial aviation. More than a museum, it is a vast historical archive of human flight, spanning from the earliest experiments with balloons to modern space exploration.