Bradbury Artifact Collections
Preserving Lab history for over 65 years.
Bradbury Science Museum collections.
- Collections Specialist
- Wendy Strohmeyer
The Bradbury Science Museum has been a collecting institution since 1953. Our photographs, archives, and objects document and preserve the history of the groundbreaking science accomplished at Los Alamos, beginning with the Manhattan Project and continuing today.
The Bradbury Science Museum's online Collections Catalog is hosted by PastPerfect Museum software.
To visit our artifacts online, please visit the Collections Catalog and search by Object, Photo, Archive, or by keyword.
Please check back often as new artifact records are added regularly.
New Mexico
Los Alamos History Museum, Los Alamos, NM
- Canvas backpack for B54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition ("backpack bomb")
White Rock Visitor Center, Los Alamos, NM
- Small exhibits on regular rotation
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, NM
- Leet seismograph
New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
- Oscillograph camera
White Sands Missle Range Museum, near Las Cruces, NM
- Fastax high-speed camera
National
DOE Headquarters - The Forrestal Building, Washington, D.C.
- Manhattan Project cooling manifold
- Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5 camera
- Trinitite
National Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, NV
- B61 museum model
- B57 casing
- B54 canvas backpack and replica Special Atomic Demolition Munition ("backpack bomb")
- W80 casing (qty 2)
- W54 "Davy Crockett" museum model
Don Harrington Discovery Center, Amarillo,TX
- Low temperature Helium experimental apparatus built into a collapsable model designed for inclusion in a 100 year time column in Amarillo, TX.
