Museum of Nuclear Science and History

1905 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104, Tel: (505) 245-2137, Website: www.atomicmuseum.com, Open daily 9am-5pm, Closed on New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Admission: $6 Adults 18-59, $5 Seniors, $4 Youth 6-17, Children 5 and under Free.
As well as a name change, from next year the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History (as its now known), will move to an expanded, purpose-built center with a 9-acre Heritage Park that will feature aircraft, rockets, launch vehicles and even a part of a nuclear submarine.

Currently, exhibits include those on the Manhattan Project - the scientific engineering project centered in New Mexico that developed, produced and tested the first atomic bomb - tactical and strategic weaponry, peaceful applications of the atom (including nuclear energy, medicine and atomic culture), plus the handling of radioactive waste and the Uranium Cycle.