Visit Paper-Plane Airport in Blokhus
Test your pilot skills at the Paper-Plane Airport. Fold your own paper airplane in the paper workshop - we have all the materials you need. You can use your own imagination or try some of the fun folding templates. We actually have the recipe for the plane that holds the world record.
Follow the Go To Gate sign to the airfield, where you will be checked in by the air traffic controller - remember your boarding pass from the museum.
Did you know that the longest-flying paper plane was designed by a man called John Collins, who got the world record in 2012? The paper plane was thrown by an American football star, Joe Ayoob, and flew impressively 69,14 meters before it landed on the pitch.
We will register your flight on the app Useeum, so you can follow who ahs the record of the day.
Adventurous paper boats
Fold adventurous paper boats like in H.C. Andersen’s adventure “Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat” or “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. In the story a one-legged tin soldier, who is unhappily in love with a dancer, two boy finds the tin soldier on the street: “Look! A tin soldier is lying there. He’s going sailing.” Then they made a boat out of a newspaper, put the tin soldier in the middle of it, and now he is sailing down the gutters” H.C. Andersen wrote and sent the poor tin soldier to sea.
Fold your own paper boat using the origami technique - we have fun templates and different types of paper for you to try. You can launch your boat immediately or develop it further by decorating it with colored paper, flags or writing wishes on the boat before it sails out into the world. You can also experiment with elastic motors, straws and stick navigation equipment!