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Amelia Hangar Museum named 4th in nation

By Brian Hagen

02/21/2025

(KAIR)--The 4th Best History Museum in the nation.

That's the ranking earned by Atchison's Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum through USA Today's 2025 Readers' Choice Travel Award Contest.

The museum, Friday, announced the results of the contest, which began in January, with voters, since that time, casting their votes in the online competition which ended February 10.

Travel experts of USA Today selected twenty nominees for the best history museum in the country, with the Heinz History Center, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, taking the top spot.

The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which opened in April 2023, is cited as one of a few to blend interactive STEM and historical storytelling as it brings to life for visitors Earhart's life as a trailblazing aviator who defied the odds to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

The centerpiece of the museum is "Muriel," the world's last remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E, identical to the one Earhart flew on her final flight around the world when she disappeared in 1937.

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