2020 - I've been coming here for my whole life. It's amazing history but it's such a shame that they don't maintain or fix anything. The activities for kids worked great when I was a kid... It's still the same stuff, 30 years later now, and everything is dirty and broken. For such a passionate community, they really disappoint here.

*2022 Update - As I mentioned, I've been coming here since I was a kid, my family brings my nephew here now. I'm deeply disappointed because I thought they may start to take pride and fix things. My nephew was so excited to get here and check out the kids venture area. Literally about 30-40% of things are even functioning at all through there and the rest of the museum. My brother emailed in a formal complaint a few years ago as well and received an email back stating that they will pass the information along and get things looked into. What have they done to remedy anything? The majority of things have a note taped to them now saying sorry, out of order... This is such a huge disappointment and maybe the workers are just volunteers anyway so they might not have any say, but it's such a disappointment. Sure, come through and see some history, but half of the videos don't work at all and your kids will be let down.

*2023 Update - This is years later. Still, the same things are broken, plus more. They finally put signs up apologizing for the inconvenience and acknowledging that it's broken... But seriously, what's the point in this when almost nothing gets updated and nothing ever gets fixed. People come from all over for EAA Airventure and the one week this is happening, signs get put up but nothing ever is truly being worked on. Barely any updates and everything being broken is a norm for an expectation for coming here at this point. My brother emailed over 5 years ago expressing frustration on all of this and still no progress. Shouldn't we be trying to get people excited about aviation and looking forward to coming here and experiencing this?

*2024 Update - I don't even get excited to come here anymore. Still, none of my previous mentions have been fixed and still more things are broken down, or just straight up missing. The whole museum seems empty compared to what used to be here. As you walk through, it's obvious that things are missing from all areas. They've put some dates and who reported issues on paper slips but they're from months ago with no timeline, plan or who's responsible for fixing it, as you can see that one of the pictures that I uploaded showed a report from over 6 months ago. I almost thought I was uploading duplicate photos until I realized that they're of the same broken things, just years apart! There's no real pride here anymore compared to what this once was years ago. My nephew said that he wanted to go to the only fun part around, the kids area, just to run in and stop and hang his head in disappointment. Joy and excitement are literally being drained and he doesn't look forward to coming here anymore either.