The Cradle Of Aviation Museum

Stroll through historic and futuristic galleries as you and your guests sip libations and sample savory fare. These singular, themed event spaces are dedicated to the first decade of flight after Kitty Hawk, World Wars 1 and 2, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Jet Age. They chronicle everything from kites, balloons and gliders to Long Island missiles, early rockets and weather radars. They collection includes a 1909 Bleriot, Charles Lindbergh's first plane JN-4 Jenny, and the Cal Rodgers' Wright EX biplane, the Vin Fiz. Meandering galleries can accommodate small cocktail receptions of up to 250 people.

Nunley’s Carousel was created in 1912 by the Stein and Goldstein Artistic Carousell Co. of Brooklyn New York. The carousel was installed on the Brooklyn waterfront in Canarsie’s Golden City Park where it was known as “Murphy’s” carousel and operated for 26 years. In the Spring of 1940, it reopened as Nunley's Carousel in Baldwin NY. Nunley’s closed in 1995 and was purchased by Nassau County. Re-opened in its new home on Museum Row in 2009, the carousel has been painstakingly restored to its former glory.

The Space Gallery is your gateway to one of the great achievements of the modern age – human spaceflight. The exhibits and historic memorabilia in the Space Gallery will set a most auspicious tone. Since the first Soviet venture into space in 1961, more than 500 men and women have floated in the vacuum of space and conducted experiments in orbit, making the Space Gallery perhaps one of the most talked about galleries in the museum.