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Santa Fe Children’s Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87505

The Santa Fe Children’s Museum is an exploratory space for children of all ages, toddlers to teens. They offer over 35 interactive indoor and outdoor exhibits including giant bubbles, dress-up and puppet theater, magnetic building tables, a 1.5 acre outdoor educational garden, a special place just for toddlers, and so much more.

Santa Fe Reptile and Bug Museum

8380 Cerrillos Road, Unit 108
Santa Fe, NM 87505

They have many live reptiles and invertebrates on display as well as other natural history exhibits. You can also touch or hold friendly, live bugs. Be sure to check out our gift shop featuring a variety of mounted insects, toys, fossils, t-shirts, and more.

New Mexico History Museum

113 Lincoln Ave
Santa Fe, NM 87501

The New Mexico History Museum includes the Palace of the Governors, Fray Angelico Chavez History Library, Palace of the Governors Photo Archive, Palace Press, & Native American Artisans Portal Program. The Palace of the Governors, a national historic landmark and anchor of the museum, hosts seven exhibits open to the public. The Palace of the Governors Photo Archives contains an estimated 1,000,000 items including historic photographic prints, cased photographs, glass plate negatives, film negatives, stereographs, postcards, color transparencies, and lantern slides. The Fray Angélico Chávez History Library is a non-circulating, closed stack research facility, preserving historical materials in many formats. The Palace Press is a working exhibit dedicated to the history of the state's printing traditions. The Native American Artisans Program offers buyers the chance to interact with artisans under the portal of the Palace of the Governors.

Manhattan Project National Historic Park

475 20th Street Suite C
Los Alamos, NM 87544

In Los Alamos, New Mexico, Manhattan Project administrators found an ideal location for the secret laboratory where they designed and built the world’s first atomic weapons. During the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos became the home to many of the top scientific minds of the day: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Norris Bradbury, Richard Feynman, Hans Bethe, and many more luminaries. These scientists worked together to develop the theoretical and experimental tests that created the first atomic weapons, using enriched uranium from Oak Ridge and plutonium from Hanford. Today, the nucleus of this once-secret city is still Los Alamos National Laboratory. Explore the people, places, and stories of Los Alamos to learn more about this once secret community.

Bradbury Science Museum

1450 Central Ave
Los Alamos, NM 87544

As Los Alamos National Laboratory’s official public museum, the Bradbury Science Museum helps visitors learn about the Lab’s beginnings during the Manhattan Project and how the Lab’s continuing work enables global security.

Los Alamos History Museum

1050 Bathtub Row
Los Alamos, NM 87544

Nestled in the heart of downtown at 1050 Bathtub Row, the Los Alamos History Museum presents stories from many eras: Homesteading, Los Alamos Ranch School, the Manhattan Project, and the Cold War. Step inside historic buildings to explore artifacts, documents, photographs, audio and video recordings of personal stories from multiple perspectives.