PAN AM MUSEUM FOUNDATION

The Pan Am Museum captures the spirit of the most iconic airline, Pan American World Airways. The mission of the Pan Am Museum is to educate, celebrate, and inspire present and future generations by preserving historical and diverse personal stories of Pan American World Airways. To employees, Pan Am was more than a paycheck. It was a home and co-workers were family. After the last Pan Am planes landed on December 4, 1991, the employee community never lost their love of the venerable company that was Pan Am. Beginning with the founding in 1992 of the Pan Am Historical Foundation by the son of Pan Am's Founder, Ed Trippe, the set upon the task of acquiring the company's remaining assets, including 64 years worth of documents, photographs, and audio visual material and archived them at the University of Miami, Richter Library Special Collections. In 2015, several former Pan Am flight attendants and members of World Wings International had the idea of explanding on the work of the Historical Foundation. They recognized that the community of former employees aging, the first-hand accounts and oral history of Pan Am were in danger of being lost forever. The group of former Pan Am flight attendants joined forces to establish a permanent museum dedicated to Pan Am.