MUSEUM OF AVIATION WINS GEORGIA AWARD FOR TUSKEGEE AIRMEN EXHIBIT

Warner Robins, GA -- The Museum of Aviation’s exhibit Tuskegee Airmen: A Proud Heritage has won the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries (GAMG) Museum Exhibition of the Year Award in Category 2 (under $100,000). The award was presented today, January 20, at the GAMG Conference in Milledgeville, Georgia -- coincidentally the same day that the much publicized “Red Tails” Tuskegee Airmen movie is premiering in theaters nationwide.

Museum Deputy Director, Dudley Bluhm said “The Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries represents over 150 public and private museums around the state of Georgia. To be selected by our peers as the “best of the best” is a great honor to for our Museum Exhibit Team and the United States Air Force. This exhibit is about heroes, American heroes that kids and adults so desperately seek today. It has been our honor to portray the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, black Americans who not only fought on the battlefield, but endured the prejudice’s of the day in order to keep “all” Americans free.”

The award comes on the heals of the official dedication of the exhibit held a month ago (December 16). Three original Tuskegee Airmen from World War II were amongst the 235 people that attended the event. Former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young was the guest speaker.

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