Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum fills a historic Lowry Air Force Base hangar with dozens of aircraft, a space gallery and cockpits kids can climb into. Regular admission is $15.95 for adults and $10.95 for youth, but the museum explicitly extends its school field-trip pricing to homeschool groups: $5 per student self-guided or $6 per student guided, for groups of at least 10, requested at least two weeks in advance through the field-trip system (Groups@WingsMuseum.org). A planetarium add-on runs $300 per 25 students.
The museum is open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 7711 E. Academy Blvd. in Denver’s Lowry neighborhood. Its sister site, Exploration of Flight at Centennial Airport (13005 Wings Way, Englewood), is open Saturdays 10-5.
Lesson hooks
- Physics: lift, drag and thrust with real airframes in front of you.
- History: Lowry’s role in WWII and the Cold War, and Colorado’s aerospace industry.
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