Australian Gliding Museum (Parwan)

The Australian Gliding Museum exists to preserve Australia's gliding history, to retain the glider design and construction skills and stimulate interest and participation in the "Adventure of Flight".

The museum also recognises the important contribution made to sporting aviation by the founders and participants of the Australian gliding community.

The Museum has collected gliders from around Australia, many of which were facing neglect or destruction. The Museum's collection includes over 50 historic gliders and other gliding archival material, including books, manuals, photographs, films, glider launching winches, aircraft plans, trophies and other memorabilia.

Restoration programs are in place (some completed) for many of the gliders collected. These programs are supplemented by research into, recording and display of, the history of gliding in Australia based substantially on the extensive archival material held by and available to the Museum.

Volunteers meet regularly at the Museum's facilities at Bacchus Marsh airfield and Dave Darbyshire restoration workshop (named after one of its founders)).

The Museum enjoys the support of the gliding clubs at Bacchus Marsh and the gliding movement in general through the Gliding Federation of Australia.

Australian Gliding Museum (Parwan)

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