Museums

The various museums around the world that are either focused on the nuclear age or contain major artifacts from key events.


National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

This museum is focused on development and delivery of nuclear weapons.

National Atomic Testing Museum

This museum explores the nuclear testing conducted at the nearby Nevada Test Site.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

This museum chronicles the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the legacy of the atomic age.

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

This museum documents the second atomic attack and its consquences to the world.

Los Alamos County Historical Museum

Located in Los Alamos, this museum preverses the history of the area and the town.

Bradbury Science Museum

Also located in Los Alamos, this musuem is focused more on the science that was developed at the lab.

American Museum of Science & Energy

This museum tells the story of the advances in science and engineering that have occurred in Oak Ridge since the first days of the Manhattan Project.

Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor

Visit the oldest nuclear reactor, located at the Oak Ridge National Lab.

B Reactor National Historic Landmark

Tour the reactor that produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Savannah River Site

Visit the Cold War site that produced the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium-239.

Experimental Breeder Reactor - 1

Examine the first liquid metal cooled fast reactor and two nuclear rocket engines.

National Air and Space Museum

The home of the B-29 "Enola Gay", the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

National Museum of the USAF

In addition to having the "Bocks Car", this museum also houses a large collection of nuclear weapons and missiles.

Strategic Air & Space Museum

This museum focusing on aircraft and nuclear missiles of the United States Air Force during the Cold War and the role of the Strategic Air Command.

Tinian Airfield

Visit the site where the first atomic bombs were loaded onto thier B-29s.

Titan Missile Museum

Explore a former Titan Missile Silo. Visitors are allowed to go into the actual silo.

Minuteman National Monument

Visit a former Minuteman missile site.

Nike Missile Site SF88L

See a former Cold War defense site.

White Sands Missile Range Museum

Visitors can see a collection of various missiles that have been tested at White Sands Missile Range.

Greenbrier Bunker

Explore the formerly classified bunker that would have housed the U.S. government.