.jpg) International Women's Air & Space Museum entrance in 2015 | |
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| Location | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 41°31′03″N081°41′00″W / 41.51750°N 81.68333°W /41.51750; -81.68333 |
TheInternational Women's Air & Space Museum, Inc. (IWASM) is a museum inCleveland, Ohio, that preserves the history of women inaviation andspace and documents their continuing contributions.
The museum began as a committee of theNinety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, that sought to collect historical artifacts and memorabilia of women pilots.
In 1986, the International Women's Air & Space Museum opened inCenterville, Ohio, in the former home of one of theWright brothers' uncles.Bernice Steadman, anaviator and member of theMercury 13, was one of the museum's co-founders.[1]
When IWASM outgrew its Centerville home, it moved in 1998 toBurke Lakefront Airport inCleveland, where it sits in the terminal's lobby and west concourse. As the airport is a public building, the museum is accessible every day during operating hours and charges no admission fee.
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