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The Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum flanked with balloons.
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AAAIBM Main
The central lobby of the Balloon Museum featuring several exhibitions with scale model hot air balloons over the centuries.
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Arctic Air Revised
A poster for the Arctic Air exhibition featuring a simple, solid-toned illustration of a downed hot air balloon on its side in the snow.
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Arctic Air Entry
The Arctic Air Entry portion of the exhibition featuring a roomed lined with wood wall panels and a large photo of three men, part of the arctic expedition.
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Arctic Air Camp
The Arctic Air Camp portion of the exhibition featuring a model display of a camping site. A digital kiosk appears in the foreground.
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Balloon Museum Facing North Section Highlight Tile
Balloons take flight above the Balloon Museum.
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Children looking up at an exhibit at Balloon Museum.
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Earth and Sky
The rear exterior of the Balloon Museum featuring the large glass window and a seating area along the walkway.
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Seed Pot
A large sculpture representing a Native American seed pot painted with a Pueblo scene with adobe buildings and hot air balloons flying overhead.
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Childs Peace Statue
A large, 3D, mixed media artwork featuring a metal ball frame covered with smaller sculptures of various textures and colors.
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Balloon Museum Volunteering
A group of volunteers do a hot air balloon demonstration. The balloon is on the ground over a protective tarp.
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Sky Portal
The 3D metal sculpture, Sky Portal, which is a representation of the burner part of a hot air balloon. Hot air balloons rise in the sky in the background.
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The Box
A small group of people interact with an exhibition with digital interactive kiosk displays and a large screen display.
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TWL Title Wall
The Weather Lab as seen from outside the exhibition facing the wall with various large, colorful wall art pieces of different weather phenomenon.
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Precip Pod
A view from within the Precipitation Pod in the Weather Lab exhibition, facing two digital interactive displays inside a tunnel-like walkway.
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Balloon Museum Volunteers
A large group of Balloon Museum volunteers gather on the stairs inside the Balloon Museum and pose, facing the audience.
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Solar Ballooning title panel
A graphic for Solar Ballooning featuring a gradient background fading from orange to yellow and the text "Solar Ballooning: Rising with the Sun".
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Balloon Museum Afterschool Excursion
A child works on a project with a paper cup and a plastic bag.
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Call for Photos - Zebra
A Zebra (a person who wares a black and white striped shirt during Balloon Fiesta and performs various volunteer duties), who is also wearing a black and white tutu, gives two thumbs up. Their back is to us and a black hot air balloon in the background starts to rise as the crowd looks on.
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Elevation Station Color Room Interior
The inside of the color room, part of the Elevation Station, featuring walls made up of plastic squares covered in different colors of tinting.
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Balloon Museum Car Interactive Exhibit
An interactive exhibit with two card and a display providing instructions on how to play the game.
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The Elevation Station Wind Tunnel, a series of plastic tubes lining the wall on a metal frame.
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The large digital display for the Chase Crew game in the Elevation Station exhibition.
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A close up of the interactive exhibit to make your own pilot card, featuring blank pieces of paper with balloon outlines that can be colored in and a spot to put the balloon name.
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The Elevation Station reading nook area made out of a tipped hot air balloon basket with a cushion for seating.
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A wooden quote sign in the shape of a cloud that reads "Children are like balloons, they lift you up and make you smile - Nancy Abbuzzo"
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Elevation Station Screen 2
A close up of a screen with blue dots at the Elevation Station exhibition.
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Elevation Station screen
One of the digital display screens at the Elevation Station exhibition featuring a hot air balloon.
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50th Balloon Fiesta Exhibit Example Photo
A jpg of the 50th Balloon Fiesta Exhibit Example Photo.
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Volunteers at the Museum
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Park Van Tassel Launch
A black and white photo of a crowd gathered near a gas balloon in Albuquerque in 1882
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Balloon Museum Shoppe
A portion of the Balloon Museum Shoppe looking out through a window with various hot air balloon window hangs and wind chimes on display.
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Balloon Museum Floorplan
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Sport Ballooning and Hall of Fame Section Highlight Tile
A view of an exhibition on Sport Ballooning
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Magic Painting
A painting of hot air balloons on and above a grassy field with people walking, chatting, and observing the balloons.
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Fiesta 2021
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Balloon Museum Site Collage Banner Nov 2021
A png of a collage of photos of the Balloon Museum with text: let your imagination soar.
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Hall of Fame 2021-2
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Hall of Fame 2021-4
Two people stand in front of a large tv screen while looking at the audience.
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Hall of Fame interactive 2021
A portion of the Hall of Fame exhibition featuring a digital display, a display case with a medal, and a podium with a plaque.
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Coloring Page- Animals
A black and white illustration of a hot air balloon with farm animals in the basket.
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Coloring Page- Cold
A black and white illustration of a cold road runner wearing ear muffs and shivering. Cactus and yucca appear in the background.
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Coloring Page-Hot
A black and white illustration of a seated roadrunner enjoying a popsicle next to a cactus.
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Sid Cutter: Man Above Town
A title graphic for the Sid Cutter exhibition featuring a black and white headshot of the man against a cloudy blue background and the text "Sid Cutter: Man Above Town".
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First Balloon Flight Painting
A classic painting of the first balloon flight, featuring two people in a hot air balloon.
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"First Manned Flights" Medallion
A metal medallion featuring reliefs of two hot air balloons and text about the first manned flights.
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Double Eagle II Balloon Mail
An envelope with illustrations of the planet and a hot air balloon.
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Ballast Log for Kitty Hawk, May 8 – 12, 1980
Spiral-bound, lined notebooks in a display case with pencil writing.
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Maryse SITS
A three photo collage of a woman and children interacting during a Stories and Music in the Sky episode at the Balloon Museum.
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Chuck Jones cel
A colored cel of the roadrunner about to enter a tunnel. He's being pursued by the coyote character who is in a propeller-driven hot air balloon holding an anvil.
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Envelope Repair Section Highlight Tile
Two men standing inside a partially inflated yellow hot air balloon envelope preparing to do repairs and dry the balloon envelope after getting wet during an event.
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Double Eagle Five Installation at the Balloon Museum
The Double Eagle V exhibit at the Trans-Oceanic & Around the World Flights exhibition at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum. The craft is a yellow and red and the photo is a close-up of the main structure.
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Channel Crossing Exhibit at the Balloon Museum
The Channel Crossing exhibit, part of the Early Ballooning exhibition, which features a small teal balloon.
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Balloons in War Exhibit
A close-up of an illustration of men working on hot air balloons during the 20th century. Next to it is a faux 20th century newspaper informational display about the exhibit.
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Arctic Air Section Highlight Tile
A view of the Arctic Air exhibit featuring a display of cold weather camp with a polar bear statue, a tent with furs inside, and a digital table display on a stand in the foreground.
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Beep Beep Section Highlight
A close crop of a Loony Tunes artwork featuring the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote. Coyote is in a hot air balloon holding an anvil while perusing the road runner who is about to head into a tunnel.
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Bryce Risley Section Highlight
A photograph of a person wearing a cowboy hat and blue jeans kneeling on a rolled up section of a hot air balloon. The landscape is a desert scene dotted by small green bushes. A small cactus can be seen in the foreground.
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Elevation Station Section Section Highlight Tile
A close-up of a colorful overhead dome of one of the exhibits in this exhibition.
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Stories by Women Section Highlight Tile
A close up of a small section of a large painting featuring women aviators. This section features a red-headed woman with long dangle earrings and a pearl necklace. In the background behind her are two people in a blue hot air balloon.
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Weather Labs Section Section Highlight Tile
A view of the weather lab exhibition featuring static and dynamic artworks of various cloud and weather phenomenon like the eye of a hurricane from space, lightning, and gathering storm clouds over a plain.
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All Black and White Section Highlight Tile
A close up of an artwork from the All Black and White exhibition featuring local artist works in black and white. This example features a spiral design in the center with detailed accents on the outer edges.
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Mecanic Art Section Highlight Tile
An artwork in pale pinks, yellows, and greens featuring a blimp aircraft flying over a large lake with strokes in flight in the bottom left corner and top right corner.
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Sid Cutter Section Highlight Tile
A composite image featuring a small black and white photograph of Sid Cutter in the center, where he is smiling off-camera, atop an illustration of a blue sky with clouds and the text "Sid Cutter" at the top and "Man Above Town" below.
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Balloons in War Section Highlight Tile
A close-up of a historical illustration of men working on hot air balloons.
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Canopy of Color Section Highlight Tile
A small section of several displays from the Canopy of Color exhibition, featuring the colorful logo panel with multicolored hot air balloons.
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Early Ballooning Section Highlight Tile
The Early Ballooning exhibition, featuring a small scale model of an early balloon with a wooden, boat-like "basket" and two men piloting the craft.
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Sport Ballooning Section Highlight
A view of several exhibits within the Sport Ballooning exhibition, including a jacket, various artworks under glass, and several informational displays.
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Trans Oceanic and Around the World Section Highlight Tile
The Double Eagle Five craft, a trans-oceanic balloon.
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Bryce Risley Converses
Bryce Risley converses with a woman and gestures to one of his photography pieces in the exhibition.
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Stories and Music in the Sky Section Highlight Tile
A collage of three photos featuring the same woman leading the Stories and Music in the Sky program. In two photos she is holding a book and animatedly gesturing. In the third she is holding a craft object. In the foreground in all three small children can be seen watching her presentation.
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Balloon Museum Events Section Highlight Tile
Two people stand and converse inside the Strawberry Lemonade hot air balloon, a pink and yellow checkered balloon, during inflation.
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Dirigible Dreams Artworks
Three 2-D artworks, part of the Dirigible Dreams exhibition, all framed in a simple, light wood tone frame. All feature black ink newspaper illustrations from the mid 19th century with text copy artfully arranged around the illustrations.
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Dirigible Dreams Section Highlight Tile
A close up of a wall collage of many color illustrations from the mid 19th century of modes of flight, both realistic and fanciful.
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Ed Yost Van
A black and white photo of balloonist Ed Yost standing in front of the back of a white van. He's wearing overalls and has a pipe in his mouth. Text on the image: Ed Yoast, Forever Pushing the Envelope.
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Ed Yost Section Highlight Tile
A portrait photograph of Ed Yost in black and white. Yost is wearing a dark collared shirt and has a pipe in his mouth. He's looking just off-camera to the right.
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Balloon Museum Brand Icon
An illustration of part of the Balloon Museum's logo, featuring multiple circles in a loose group in various colors representing the tops of hot air balloons as seen from above.
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The Art of Annularity Balloon Eclipse Sculpture
A sculpture for The Art of Annularity exhibition at the Balloon Museum. The sculpture is a large, flat, blue circle suspended in the air by a series of thin metal poles.
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RC Balloon Inside
An RC hot air balloon, inflated and on its side, rests on the floor inside the Balloon Museum. In the foreground are dozens of shoes of children who are inside the RC balloon.
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Children Balloons
A small group of children watch as small helium balloons tied together rise into the air at the Balloon Museum.
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Stories and Music in the Sky Logo
The Stories and Music in the Sky logo featuring an illustration of a hot air balloon.
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Science Girl
Science Girl poses behind a table covered in glass chemistry beakers of various sizes filled with different colored liquids. She's wearing a white lab coat and holding a small beaker with a green liquid inside.
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