The museum portion of the complex draws visitors immediately past a restaurant and gift shop into a Cordoba-like, multicolumned lobby and the sky-high Freedom Hall where an LED installation is programmable for any occasion.
Or you can sit in the lobby of the small building that houses the Sky Kitchen along with a store that sells maps, books, and tiny artifacts and tools for small commercial and amateur aviation in the Valley.
The extraordinary lobby of the palace is centered on a marble fountain supported by cherubs, while the sky-blue walls are frescoed with cotton-ball clouds, birds, garlands and idealized rural scenes.