Exhibits

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian will open to the public on October 23rd. This important exhibition examines the complicated history and impact of Executive Order 9066 that led to the incarceration of 75,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and 45,000 Japanese nationals following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Just before the first man landed on the moon, Charlie Brown and Snoopy soared through space with NASA’s Apollo 10 mission in May 1969. The exhibition, To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA, examines the history of Apollo 10 and the Peanuts characters’ role in that flight and in the NASA Manned Flight Awareness safety program. The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History will host To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA – a special exhibit organized by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center – from January 22 through May 15, 2022.

Nuclear by Mail chronicles the development of nuclear science and technologies in the 20th century as told through the mail. This exhibit, opening on August 7th, 2021, will showcase the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History’s collection of mail-related artifacts including stamps, envelopes, postcards, and photographs.

The "Dark Cube: Heisenberg's Race for the Bomb" exhibition focuses on a dense, two-inch charcoal-black cube made of pure uranium metal that Nazi scientists suspended with 663 other similar cubes during World War II in an effort to create the world’s first atomic bomb.

Complete with planes, rockets, missiles, cannons and nuclear sub sail, this exhibit will attract plane buffs and historians alike.

A special exhibition where visitors will step back in time to a pivotal point in history, and experience pure science through pure art. Explore and study the recreations of the super secrets from the Manhattan Project's atomic bomb in this mesmerizing exhibit.

Visitors will step back in time to meet the individuals who influenced the nuclear world.

It is said that the dawn of the Atomic Age began with the testing of the world’s first atomic bomb. This exhibit will show visitors just how much influence over the modern world this test created.

The future belongs to the children of today. Little Albert’s Lab will help children of all ages grasp the concepts of physics, the basis of all sciences.

Every visitor will be entertained while viewing the cultural items surrounding the dawning of the Atomic Age!

In this exhibit, visitors will learn how close we came to another war before the end of the Cold War.

While the atomic bomb brought the war to a close, the after-effects of the bomb were felt for years in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Get the basic facts about radiation in this exhibit.

The exhibit features interactive exhibits helping the visitor discover the place nuclear power has in our energy hungry world.

Examine the options of green energy alternatives like solar and wind power along with the place nuclear power has in the world today.

This exhibit features how radioactive waste is managed in a safe way.

See the history of nuclear medicine and how it contributed to the advancement of medical technology.

"What's Up With U(ranium)" is now on permanent display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, engaging visitors of all ages while answering questions such as where does uranium come from, how does it move through the environment, how does it affect us and is it radioactive.

This exhibition, compiled from the collections of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, aims to exemplify the ever-changing public attitudes towards atomic thought over the course of the 20th Century and first decade of the 21st Century through the reflective lens of advertising and packaging.

This virtual exhibit, created by Daniel Ross, explores the differences between nuclear fission and fusion reactions. These types of reactions used to generate nuclear power may provide solutions to the mounting climate crisis in the future, but they also have a historical context. This exhibit explains these processes and connects them to some of the historical artifacts in the museum's collection.

At the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, we are continually grateful for the support our patrons, members, and contributors give us, as well as the actual objects which are donated or acquired by the museum into its permanent collection of artifacts. Click here to see some of the most exciting objects the Curatorial Department added to our catalogue in the past month.