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The Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, also known colloquially as "Silver Hill", is a storage and former conservation and restoration facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, located in Suitland, Maryland, United States. Located adjacent to the Museum Support Center – a facility that serves the same purpose for other Smithsonian museums – the Paul E. Garber Facility was once the main artifact restoration facility of the National Air and Space Museum. The museum still stores aircraft and other artifacts at the Paul E. Garber Facility, but most storage and restoration functions have relocated to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is not open to the public.

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  • La Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, surnommée Silver Hill, est une installation située à Suitland dans le Maryland. Cette installation sert à la Smithsonian Institution pour la restauration d'aéronefs et d'artefacts en lien avec l'aéronautique et l'astronautique. Environ 65 combinaisons spatiales des programmes Mercury, Apollo et d'autres programmes spatiaux américains avaient été stockées dans une salle à environnement contrôlé. (fr)
  • The Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, also known colloquially as "Silver Hill", is a storage and former conservation and restoration facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, located in Suitland, Maryland, United States. Located adjacent to the Museum Support Center – a facility that serves the same purpose for other Smithsonian museums – the Paul E. Garber Facility was once the main artifact restoration facility of the National Air and Space Museum. The museum still stores aircraft and other artifacts at the Paul E. Garber Facility, but most storage and restoration functions have relocated to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is not open to the public. (en)
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  • La Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, surnommée Silver Hill, est une installation située à Suitland dans le Maryland. Cette installation sert à la Smithsonian Institution pour la restauration d'aéronefs et d'artefacts en lien avec l'aéronautique et l'astronautique. Situé à côté du Museum Support Center - une installation qui sert le même objectif pour les autres musées de la Smithsonian - le Paul E. Garber Facility était autrefois le principal centre de restauration d'artefacts du National Air and Space Museum. Le musée y stocke toujours des avions et d'autres objets, mais la plupart des activités de stockage et de restauration ont été transférées dans le hangar de restauration Mary Baker Engen du Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center à Chantilly, en Virginie. L'installation n'est pas ouverte au public. Il est nommé en l'honneur de Paul E. Garber, un conservateur du Smithsonian qui a consacré la majeure partie de sa carrière à l'entretien d'une collection d'avions historiques. Il a été créé au début des années 1950 par Garber pour stocker, protéger la collection croissante d'avions de la Seconde Guerre mondiale du musée et fournir l'espace nécessaire à leur restauration. L'installation se compose de 32 bâtiments métalliques sans prétention. 19 de ces bâtiments sont consacrés au stockage d'avions, d'engins spatiaux, de moteurs et de diverses pièces en attente de restauration. Un bâtiment est consacré à un grand atelier de restauration, et trois bâtiments sont destinés à la création d'expositions. Les restaurateurs font parfois appel à d'autres professionnels du Smithsonian, comme des experts en restauration de peintures d'art, pour les consulter sur des projets de restauration d'avions. À ce jour, le plus grand projet de restauration entrepris par le Garber Facility a été celui du B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. Les travaux ont commencé en 1984. Le fuselage à lui seul a nécessité 10 ans de travail. L'avion a finalement été livré au Centre Steven F. Udvar-Hazy en 11 chargements de semi-remorques en l'espace de trois mois en 2003. Environ 65 combinaisons spatiales des programmes Mercury, Apollo et d'autres programmes spatiaux américains avaient été stockées dans une salle à environnement contrôlé. Le toit s'est effondré sur l'entrepôt n°21 de l'installation juste avant l'aube du 10 février 2010 lors d'un blizzard et de la deuxième tempête de neige de la région sur une période de cinq jours de 30 à 75 centimètres de neige. L'entrepôt, dont la démolition est prévue après le transfert des artefacts au Centre Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, contenait des avions et des vaisseaux spatiaux historiques qui ont été exposés à des températures inférieures au point de congélation et à la poudre neigeuse. On ne pensait pas qu'ils étaient endommagés, car ils se trouvaient tous dans des boîtes ou des caisses de protection sur des étagères qui soutenaient encore des parties de l'entrepôt. (fr)
  • The Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, also known colloquially as "Silver Hill", is a storage and former conservation and restoration facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, located in Suitland, Maryland, United States. Located adjacent to the Museum Support Center – a facility that serves the same purpose for other Smithsonian museums – the Paul E. Garber Facility was once the main artifact restoration facility of the National Air and Space Museum. The museum still stores aircraft and other artifacts at the Paul E. Garber Facility, but most storage and restoration functions have relocated to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is not open to the public. It is named in honor of Paul E. Garber, a Smithsonian curator who devoted most of his career to maintaining a collection of historic aircraft. It was created in the early 1950s by Garber to store, protect the museum's growing collection of World War II aircraft and provide space to restore them. The facility consists of 32 unassuming metal buildings. 19 of those buildings are devoted to storage of airplanes, spacecraft, engines, and various parts awaiting restoration. One building formerly housed a large restoration shop, and three buildings are for exhibition creation. To date, the largest restoration project undertaken by the Garber Facility was the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay. Work began in 1984. The fuselage alone took 10 years of work. The aircraft was finally delivered to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in 11 tractor trailer loads over the space of three months in 2003. Approximately 65 space suits from the Mercury, Apollo, and other U.S. space programs were formerly stored at the facility in an environmentally-controlled room; these have now been moved to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The roof collapsed on the facility's Warehouse #21 just before dawn on February 10, 2010 during a blizzard and the region's second 15 to 30 inch snowstorm during a five-day period. The warehouse, scheduled for eventual demolition after transfer of the artifacts to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, contained historic aircraft and spacecraft that were exposed to sub-freezing temperatures and blowing snow. They were not thought to be damaged, as all were in protective boxes or crates on shelving units that were still supporting parts of the warehouse. (en)
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