Upcoming Events

Air Show Watch Party 2023 – Friday Passes

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum 500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR, United States

Watch the Oregon International Air Show featuring the Blue Angels from the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum! From September 29 - October 1, the Oregon International Air Show will be taking place across the highway from the Museum at the McMinnville Airport. Buy passes for our Air Show Watch Party to experience an amazing vantage...

Air Show Watch Party 2023 – Saturday Pass

Watch the Oregon International Air Show featuring the Blue Angels from the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum! From September 29 – October 1, the Oregon International Air Show will be taking place across the highway from the Museum at the McMinnville Airport. Buy passes for our Air Show Watch Party to experience an amazing vantage...

Air Show Watch Party 2023 – Sunday Passes

Watch the Oregon International Air Show featuring the Blue Angels from the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum! From September 29 - October 1, the Oregon International Air Show will be taking place across the highway from the Museum at the McMinnville Airport. Buy passes for our Air Show Watch Party to experience an amazing vantage...

Storytellers Series: The Lockheed D-21 Drone Program

Presenter: Gary Sohn Next to the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, this was once the second most important United States defense security program. The U.S. was not allowed to fly over China or Russia with crewed aircraft, but the Lockheed D-21—an uncrewed drone—was able to overfly these countries. Attend and learn about this...

Storytellers Series: Our Wandering North Pole

Presenter: Gary Sohn The geographic North Pole is a fixed graphic point, but the magnetic north pole has been wandering about the northern part of our globe for millions of years. Find out what causes this behavior and what affects it can have on living things. Location: Space Museum Galaxy Theater Cost: Included with Admission

Storytellers Series: NASA’s Amazing Landsat Satellites

Presenters: John Jennings and Donn Anderson  Landsat satellites have been showing us our Earth from space since Landsat 1 launched in 1972! Developed jointly by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Landsat collects data on the forests, farms, urban areas, and freshwater of our home planet generating the longest continuous record of its kind....

Storytellers Series: The Russian Moon Program – What Went Wrong?

Presenter: Tuesday Docent In the 1960s, two great nations competed to “Put a man on the Moon.” Russia's N1 rocket was in development at the same time as the U.S. Saturn V, but theirs failed. Find out why. Location: Space Museum Galaxy Theater Cost: Included with Admission

The Nighthawk Experience – Arrival of the F-117

Evergreen Space Museum 510 NE Captain MIchael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR, United States

Are you ready to see our newest arrival, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk? Join Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum for an all encompassing experience, featuring experts on the famous stealth fighter plane, and the chance to see the plane up-close for the first time. Tickets are $30, with half of each sale going directly to the...

Storytellers Series: Psyche, Nasa’s Mission To The Largest Metal Asteroid

Presenters: Donn Anderson and John Jennings The vast majority of asteroids have a variety of rocky compositions. But a few asteroids seem to be made primarily of something really amazing: METAL! The largest  of these discovered so far is Psyche. Come find out why we are interested in this particular and peculiar type of asteroid!...

Celebrate 120 Years of Flight

Evergreen Giant Screen Theater 490 NE Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, OR, United States

BUY TICKETS The Aviation and Space Museums will be open during normal operating hours to invite event ticket holders to explore legendary exhibits prior to the celebration. Ticket holders are invited to be seated in our Giant Screen Theater by 3pm to enjoy the celebration's live speaking engagements.  Private pilot and KOIN's Chief Meteorologist Natasha Stenbock will share...

Storytellers Series: Nasa’s Innovative Artemis CLPS Initiative

Presenters: John Jennings and Donn Anderson As part of NASA’s Artemis moon program, CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar Payload Services, is designed to establish private sector lunar lander services to deliver small and medium sized scientific payloads and technology demonstrations to the Moon’s surface. Come learn more about this plan to use commercial capabilities...