The Paris Museum of aviation and cosmonautics – the oldest and one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. It is located in the suburb of Le Bourget, the Paris terminal. It's a Paradise for men and children: you can touch the exhibits, they climb, they go.

The history of the Museum began in 1919, when the distinguished French engineer, head of technical service of the French air force albert Kako asked the government to establish a Museum of Aeronautics. Exactly What was the beginning of the collection, which is housed in the South-West of Paris in Issy-Les-Moulineaux. In 1921 the Museum moved into a Chalet-MEUDON, a suburb, where from 1880 construction of balloons and airships. When in 1974, Paris has found a new airport Charles de Gaulle, the Museum gave the former airport, "Le Bourget".

Huge space, Le Bourget (airport has long been second in size in Europe after Berlin Tempelhof") for large exhibits of the Museum were at the time. There is a pavilion dedicated to the supersonic "Concorde", – it has exposed the plane, inside which you can see literally everything. In a giant double-deck Boeing 747 aircraft available for viewing even the engines.

The Museum's collection chronologically begins with the works of Leonardo da Vinci. The oldest of the local flying machines heavier than air – glider "Massiah-Bio" (1879). Next – the first mass of the aircraft "Demoiselle", built in France by Brazilian Santos-Dumont (1907). "Bleriot XI" Aviator Louis Bleriot first crossed the channel in 1909, this event was perceived approximately as flying to the moon. The first seaplane Henri Fabre in 1910, the monoplane "Morane-Saulnier", which Roland Garros for the first time flew over the Mediterranean sea... And then – heavy rocket-the Ariane 5", towering over the whole complex.

The Museum is not only aircraft and helicopters. It operates a well-equipped planetarium, which is easy to make an impressive virtual tour of the Solar system. On special simulators can feel like a fighter pilot or a passenger plane. You can wander around the space station, to see how people live and work in space.