Los Alamos County Historical Museum

Introduction

The Los Alamos County Historical Museum is located in the heart of Los Alamos, New Mexico, a town famous worldwide for the secret Manhattan Project during World War II. The museum is housed in the Fuller Lodge, built in 1928 as the headquarters of the Los Alamos Ranch School, which was commandeered by the Army in 1943 to become the administrative center and housing for Manhattan Project scientists. Through rich historical photographs, artifacts, and oral history videos, the museum details the secret project that changed human history: from J. Robert Oppenheimer recruiting top scientists, to the development of the world's first atomic bomb under extreme secrecy. The museum also displays the history of the ancestral Puebloan people and the life of the Ranch School era, weaving a thousand years of high plateau history into a complete narrative. Walking the paths once trodden by the scientists outside the museum, one can almost feel the echoes of those intense, purposeful years.

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