Since 2016, the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków has been carrying out an investment project called “Heksagon”, aimed at building infrastructure for new exhibitions as well as expanding the institution’s storage and conservation facilities.
The first project to be completed as part of these efforts was the construction of Hangar No. 5, under the investment “Heksagon — construction of a hangar for the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków”. The name Heksagon derives from the characteristic airfield construction plan of 1923 (including the Rakowice-Czyżyny airfield, on whose grounds the Museum is located), combining the functions of a military base and a civilian airport. Its central area was occupied by a circular take-off field with groups of hangars and a civilian air terminal arranged in a quadrilateral or hexagonal plan.
Now it is time for the twin Hangar No. 4, which will be built parallel to Hangar No. 5 on its northern side.
On 19 September this year, the Museum signed an agreement with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, under which it received funding for the project “Preparation of architectural and construction documentation for the Polish Aviation Museum for the development of cultural activities — Hangar 4” from funds of the Culture Promotion Fund.
Subsequently, through a tender procedure, an Architect was selected who will prepare the architectural and construction documentation for the storage and exhibition hall that will expand the Museum’s infrastructure.
In the future, Hangar No. 4 will house, among other things, an exhibition hall, storage facilities for unique aircraft in the Museum’s collection, and a large conservation workshop, which we very much need for the restoration of large-scale exhibits such as passenger and military aircraft, as well as aircraft engines — says Tomasz Kosecki, Director of the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków.
