Malaga Airport News Blog about Malaga Airport (AGP)

Malaga Airport – Costa del Sol will host the exhibition of paintings and prints ‘Flying among dreams’ of the painter and designer Paola Aragon. It brings together nearly fifty engravings and paintings of allegorical reminiscence.

Specifically, these are the paintings and engravings of the Chilean painter and designer, member of the Andalusian Association of Illustrators and the Association of Plastic Artists from Malaga (Aplama), which proposes a dreamlike and colorful journey.

The exhibition will be open until July 31 in the exhibition hall of the T3 in the arrivals area, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm and from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Malaga Airport receives in its facilities a new sample of more than 70 works of Mainoba collective.

In particular, the exhibition hall of the T3 includes a selection of paintings by 28 art enthusiasts that make up the group and which have selected 72 works for this particular collection.

Through paintings, watercolors and pastels, Mainoba offers a journey through different painting techniques with a common denominator: a festival of color that serves as leitmotif of the exhibition and invites imagination.

The selection of paintings remains in the exhibition hall of the terminal T3 in the Arrivals area, until May 31 and can be visited from 11 am to 1 pm and from 6 pm to 8 pm, as reported from Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (Aena) through a statement.

From now on it is possible to visit the new historic district at the Malaga Air Museum located in the airport’s original terminal.

This building was Malaga Airport from 1948 to 1968, then Aeroclub and finally served as General Aviation Terminal until 2007.

The new permanent exhibition rooms occupy three floors, which reflect the evolution of air transport and the influence on the development of the Malaga through tourism.

The content of 3,000 square meters of exhibition includes pieces from all airports in Spain related to aviation and airports, historic aircrafts on display, an observatory at the historic airport control tower or the visit to the cockpit of a DC-9 aircraft from Iberia.

Visitors can find out about the operations at an airport, along with the evolution of aviation and airport technology, aircraft engines, design of runways, lighting beacons, radio and teletype, and the performance of the various professions, such as such as air traffic controller, falconer, signalman, stewardess or pilot.

Finally, in the interactive showroom various mechanisms will show the principles of physics applied to aviation.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10 am to 2 pm. Tuesday, 5 pm to 8 pm.

The museum is closed Mondays and Dec. 25, Jan. 1 and Holy Thursday and Friday (Easter). Admission is free.

Malaga airport has installed a Cessna 421B Golden Eagle from 1992, which had been abandoned. The Malaga Air Transport Museum has restored the piece and instead of placing it in the museum, the Cessna is installed on the new roundabout next to the T3, which is a very attractive spot for the eight seater airplane. Specifically, it is situated between the terminals T2 and T3 and passengers using the mobile gangway from the airport parking may see it in its entire splendor.

The Museum of Airports and Air Transport of Malaga is the only museum of its kind in Spain.

At the exhibition hall of Malaga airport arrivals T3 will take place an art exhibition from 19^th to 28^th of February, titled Arrivals Art. The gallery is open daily from 1 pm to 6 pm.

In the exhibition Arrivals Art can be seen works from several artists members of the Andalusian International Artists (AIA) Group formed by professional and dedicated visual artists from around Europe, who are all living and working in Andalucía. The works include original oil paintings, oil on canvas, watercolor, cross stitch on canvas and photography.

The Exhibition Hall at Malaga Airport is a space that joins the renowned galleries and exhibition halls of Malaga and the Costa del Sol and is intended to exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography or any other type of demonstrations of fine arts.