Interactive exhibits allow visitors to use computers, experiment with laser light, and try other hands-on science activities. Demonstrations by Museum explainers convey science concepts in a lively and understandable fashion. Continuously showing videos and films interpret science, technology, and the history of the successful attempt to build the first atomic bomb. Admission to the Museum is free. The Museum is closed on Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Tours are welcome.
In 1918, Ashley Pond started the Los Alamos Ranch School for boys which centered around Fuller Lodge. The Ranch School buildings provided initial housing, but an enormous construction effort was necessary to build Laboratory facilities and to house the thousands of scientific, technical, and military personnel and their families who followed. Be sure to visit the Los Alamos Historical Museum next to Fuller Lodge. This pond, now ringed by cement, is a natural depression which collects water. The original Laboratory site occupied a large portion of what is now Los Alamos townsite, including Ashley Pond.