Bradbury Science Museum

See more than 60 interactive exhibits on the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory science.

1450 Central Avenue · Los Alamos, NM

About Bradbury Science Museum

The Bradbury Science Museum is the public museum of Los Alamos National Laboratory, named for Norris E. Bradbury, the lab's second director. More than 60 interactive exhibits fill three galleries, History, Defense and Research, with a timeline that begins in 1938 and runs to the present day. Full-size models of the Little Boy and Fat Man bombs are among the displays. Rideshare services generally do not operate in Los Alamos, so plan your own way there.

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