Early atomic weaponry at the National Atomic Museum

The National Atomic Museum, in New Mexico, currently located along the Museum Corridor in Albuquerque’s Old Town, is set to re-open on a larger site in spring 2009, when it will be re-named the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History.

The new building, currently under construction on a 12-acre site at the north end of the Sandia Science and Technology Park, near the University of New Mexico, will feature an outdoor park for aircraft and other large artefacts currently housed on the nearby Kirtland Air Force Base. Items on display will include a Boeing B-29 bomber and a Republic F-105 jet.

The state-of-the-art facility will also contain new exhibits covering aspects such as atomic time keeping and the atomic clock, renewable energy, robotics and nuclear propulsion.

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