aeroseum

This is well worth a visit for young children, seeing some of the old aeroplanes from the past. Try the flight simulators, but dress warm as the museum is underground.

Went expecting to kill an hour or two, spent 5 hours seeing and experiencing everything. I'm really into both WW2 and Cold War history and prior to my visit in Gothenburg was oblivious about the presence of such a location.I would advise to anyone, it's easy enough to get to by public transport, and reasonably priced.

I didn't know much about this place before going here other than it was some kind of aviation museum. It's a bit outside the city but easy to reach by bus, only 20 mins bus ride from the tram stop at Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen. The exhibition focuses on the Cold War as the underground hangars in where the museum is based, was built during the cold war. Don't expect a big modern state of the art museum! From reading I got the impression that the place is primarily run by voluntary staff. However for anyone with the slightest interest in the Cold War and/or aviation in general, I would highly recommend to pay this place a visit. It seemed friendly also for kids and you are allowed to sit in certain airplanes and helicopters.Also I found the flight simulator experience that they offer entertaining. The staff was very friendly especially the guy who was running the flight simulator!

Visited with the wife and thoroughly enjoyed this slice of Cold War history.We arrived via public transport, which is the number 11 tram to Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen followed by the number 35 bus to Säve, getting off at Granahall. You then cross the main road, which has a pedestrian crossing and walk about 500 metres to the entrance. It is well signposted.The museum contains many military jets, helicopters and support vehicles, and is contained in a purpose built nuclear bunker that was decommissioned in 2003. The wonderful thing is that you can sit in several of the fighter jets and helicopters and they have guided tours or you can take a guide book in your own language and wander about at your leisure.While we were there, they also had an exhibition about the Stasi in East Germany and another about moon exploration during the 60's.There are flight simulators too, which cost 50kr for 15 minutes. A little steep, I thought, but they looked very authentic, and I'm sure kids would have a whale of a time.The only thing that wasn't so hot was the cafe. We had cheeseburgers, and they were just microwaved from frozen and limp and tasteless as a result. But they were very reasonably priced, (for Sweden). However, as part of the cafe area, they have a large kids activity section and library and souvenir shop that was very good.The staff were all very friendly, helpful and informative, and this is definitely a museum that deserves to succeed and be visited.

Not many people are aware of this underground museum and it should definitely be one of the places to go if you are planning to visit Gothenburg. The place has a big quantity of different airplanes and they give you war stories and more.

In eastern parts of Gothenburg City Airport, a former military air base, you will find this museum and you can only reach it from the roads east of the airport, not from the airport terminals. This exhibition of the Swedish Air Force Jet Fighters from the Cold War in an underground hangar blasted into the rock is very rich and instructive and has also a lot of activities for the children, so this is something for the whole family. I can warmly recommend a visit to this former Top Secret hangar which now is transformed into an Aircraft Museum.

Interesting place to see planes - a cold war era underground hangar. Printed guides in many languages are available. Many planes to see.Some parts look a bit like an abandoned storage, but an experience of sitting in a cockpit of a fighter jet is unforgettable.

On walking down to the entrance of this attraction I was greeted by one of the plane mechanics, who couldn't have been a nicer guy. Then you step inside to this amazing Cold War-era bunker and can lose the hours looking through the old planes and historical exhibitions. Really really cool piece of history, and fascinating to get more of an idea of the Cold War from a Swedish perspective; not a perspective you usually hear about. Only disappointment is not all the exhibitions have English subtitles, though most do.

As a great fan of air planes and military stuff, this was a big disappointment. They boast a lot about the unique setting in a former top secret underground hangar, but once inside it is like they don't care about this fact. A few rooms (2x3m) on the way down focus on the Cold War, the building of the hangars and the nuclear threat - that's all!!! Besides that you might have been in any building at all as far as it goes for displaying the unique hangars. The main attraction are not taken care of in any way. When it come to the planes, you will see few odd objects. and in total very few planes and helicopters. Many of them appears more than once too. This is of course not negative if you're interested - every plane has its own story. All of them are more or less placed in the tunnel down to the hangars. Once into the impressive hangars you'll find that out of 12 "zones" only 4,5 will show air planes. The rest of it are a cafe zone (1 zone), restoration zone (2 zones), "Banquet hall" (1 zone), flight simulators (1 zone) and 2 zones of amusement park for kids. The planes are turned into attractions for kids (climb through the engine hold of a plane. Sit in all of them (joystick removed in some of them, new provisional cushions in the seats probably due to high tear-and-wear from all visitors and some other simplifications are done to the objects. Fun to climb down nevertheless). The main target guest seems to be kids rather than air force enthusiasts and I would have liked a more "balanced" attraction. For kids - this place will be great fun for aviators and military historians - not so much. Sadly. PS - never mind the view point walk - a total waste of time! DS

Everybody who is intersted in Aviation will like this museum. It is situated in a former Bunker, has a lot of exhibits that can be dirscovered handson so to say...you can climb in and feel how it is/was to be pilot in those planes. There are facilities like a snack restaurant and toilets and specially in school holidays extras for the kids...best you visit their website for programs.Another great rainy day family outing.

This museum is situated near to Säve airport and you can explore the interesting history of Sweden with the help of tasks, planes, helicopters and other vehicles. You can try yourself as a pilot via the simulator as well.

This place is a little rough but that adds to the character. It is located in an old underground bunker beside the Gothenburg airport. The aircraft on display are varied and in great condition. Most of them you can get close enough to touch.

You'll find there a lot knowledge about history, airplanes and helicopters but also a lot things to do. The place is just amazing!

Interesting underground air museum with some good pieces of history, but for children and adults, the flight simulators are brilliant. Well worth it, but they charge extra to go on them, and the entrance fee isn't cheap to start with.

I'd only spotted this place while browsing the map at 500px - I didn't know it was there otherwise! Another weekend in Sweden was on the cards, so after picking up my hire car, I drove around the airport perimeter to the entrance.As I passed the gate, I saw the opening time was 11am. Unfortunately it was only 10:30- however the kiosk was already manned and the guy let me in anyway. He was helpful, and spoke good English.I parked around the corner next to two other cars. Facing me was a tunnel leading down into the hillside. I wandered down, and then some enormous blast doors. Opening the small door in the middle, I went through, and was in a large tunnel carved out of the rock that led downwards around a corner. Parked up were planes and helicopters disappearing around the bend- and not another person there! I felt almost like I was trespassing, but walked through, looking at the various exhibits (some interesting stuff on the walls too)At the bottom, there was another door which led into a series of tunnels with further exhibits.There's a simple but good value (especially for Sweden!) cafe, where I had a coffee and sandwich. There's also a simulator, but I didn't use that. Several of the aircraft you can climb up into which was fun.Throughout the time I was there, I saw just two other groups of visitors (a couple, and a family) which was great, I could spend time looking, and take photos without people in the way! There was also a guy pushing around a floor cleaner...I rate it 4/5- some of the exhibitions further round the back are more like a stack of stuff they didn't know what to do with and seemed a bit unfinished (perhaps this is just temporary?) but the main draw of the place is the genuine cold-war feel of being underground with all these old Saab jets... because it IS genuine!Outside there are a few other decaying vehicles and you can climb the hill to look over the active airport. Well worth a visit if you like this kinda thing.