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Welcome to the National Atomic Museum
Soon to be renamed the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History


                

About the Museum

The National Atomic Museum is located in the heart of Old Town Albuquerque, along Museum Corridor. Within walking distance are three additional museums, including Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and Explora Children's Museum. The National Atomic Museum is located at 1905 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque New Mexico 87104. We are 2 blocks east of Rio Grande Boulevard and just north of Old Town, Albuquerque. The phone number is
(505) 245-2137. The phone number for the museum gift shop is (505) 242-6083.

The National Atomic Museum is the nation's only Congressionally chartered museum of nuclear science and history. The museum was established in 1969 as an intriguing place to learn the story of the Atomic Age, from early research of nuclear development through today's peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

Visitors can explore how nuclear science continues to influence our world. The museum strives to present through permanent and changing exhibits and displays the diverse applications of nuclear energy and its pioneers.

Exhibits include:

  • Pioneers of Science including Madame Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Lise Meitner.
  • What's Hot, What's Not - Radiation in the World Around You explaining both naturally occurring and man created radiation
  • The Manhattan Project, WW II, and The Cold War
  • Seeing is Healing, a look at Nuclear Medicine
  • Waging Peace, the history of Arms Control
  • Little Al's Lab™, where inquisitive young minds can try their hand at science activities

Museum visitors can view and photograph displays presenting the development of the Atomic Age, including replicas of the world's first two atomic weapons, Little Boy and Fat Man, which were built and used at the end of World War II.

Other services provided by the museum include:

  • Traveling Exhibits
  • Science is Everywhere Summer Science Camp
  • Facility Rental Program
  • Scientific Tour Series, which take tours to interesting scientific sites.
  • Educational Outreach Program, Up 'n' Atom

Plans are currently underway to build a new, larger facility entitled the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. The state of the art facility will allow the museum to expand its exhibits and programming to include atomic time keeping and the atomic clock, nuclear space, secrets of the southwest, renewable energy, food irradiation, robotics, NERVA and nuclear propulsion. The new site will also have an extensive outdoor exhibit park displaying a B-29, F-105 jet, Redstone, Atomic Annie cannon, and the James K. Polk submarine sail. If you are interested in finding out more about the new museum project, please call 505-245-2137 ext. 110.

The Museum is proud to recognize the following affiliations:

CEA logo NEI logo
INSC logo ASRT logo
 
   

 

 

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