Outdoor Spaces

Our site redevelopment will transform our outdoor spaces, providing opportunity for outdoor learning, discovery, and contemplation.

Spaces outside the new exhibition, Learning Centre and the Collections Hub will incorporate accessible seating with pockets of greenery creating much needed outdoor facilities to improve people’s physical and mental wellbeing, and provide beautiful spaces to host learning activities outdoors.

Increasing biodiversity and visitor wellbeing

We are working with partners, our local communities and our Access Panel to ensure the landscape design interventions will conserve existing trees where appropriate, create new pathways to ease visitor movement, including for people using wheelchairs, and introduce new planting to improve wellbeing and biodiversity across the Museum site. Volunteering opportunities to plant and maintain these spaces in the future will be available for people who may have limited access to green spaces.

The project will support the Museum’s determination to reach Carbon Net Zero, learning alongside the RAF as they move towards achieving Carbon Net Zero by 2040. We will invest in sustainable technologies and operations, sharing our learning through this project.

The RAF Museum Midlands Development Programme is being made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we are able to progress our plans for this project.