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Visit the Museum Campus
A museum visit begins in the restored Los Alamos Ranch School Guest Cottage where exhibits take visitors from the Pajarito Plateau’s Ancestral Pueblo people to its homestead history, through the Ranch School era, and ultimately into the Manhattan Project.
The Hans Bethe House on Bathtub Row, includes the Harold Agnew Cold War Gallery, exhibits highlighting 70+ years of post-World War II history of the Los Alamos community and the laboratory. Visitors will see scientist profiles, a Nobel Prize display, key awards for scientific excellence, information about Los Alamos as a model community for civil defense, and a replica of a Cold War Los Alamos living room.
A visit to the Romero Cabin is a 100-year step back in time—one of only three remaining area homestead cabins and the only one open to the public. Experience a bygone way of life and learn why homesteading on this plateau differed from anywhere else in the country. Open occasionally.
The Hans Bethe House on Bathtub Row, includes the Harold Agnew Cold War Gallery, exhibits highlighting 70+ years of post-World War II history of the Los Alamos community and the laboratory. Visitors will see scientist profiles, a Nobel Prize display, key awards for scientific excellence, information about Los Alamos as a model community for civil defense, and a replica of a Cold War Los Alamos living room.
A visit to the Romero Cabin is a 100-year step back in time—one of only three remaining area homestead cabins and the only one open to the public. Experience a bygone way of life and learn why homesteading on this plateau differed from anywhere else in the country. Open occasionally.
Rotating Exhibit Gallery
The Rotating Exhibit Gallery showcases a diversity of changing exhibits about people, place, and community life on the Pajarito Plateau. Through photographs, artifacts, artwork, and story, visitors will learn about the unique histories and world changing experiences that continue to shape Los Alamos history.
Nobel Heroes Portraits by Peter Badge
January 12 - April 27, 2018
January 12 - April 27, 2018
About the Artist
Peter Badge was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1974 and began his career as a freelance artist and photographer in 1993. He moved to Berlin in 1995 to study art history and has been living and working there since. Choosing portraiture as his primary focus, Badge concentrates on noted personalities that include scientists and politicians, artists and actors, musicians and photographers.
Peter Badge was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1974 and began his career as a freelance artist and photographer in 1993. He moved to Berlin in 1995 to study art history and has been living and working there since. Choosing portraiture as his primary focus, Badge concentrates on noted personalities that include scientists and politicians, artists and actors, musicians and photographers.
About the Exhibit
Since 1943, Los Alamos has served as a remarkable gathering place for genius, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory has hosted countless groundbreaking discoveries that have transformed the way we see the world. In fact, over the years more than two dozen Nobel Prize winners have been associated with or worked at the laboratory.
In celebration of these achievements, the Los Alamos History Museum is hosting an extraordinary exhibit of Nobel Laureate portraits by Peter Badge from January 12 – April 27, 2018. The exhibit represents an uncommon collaboration between The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, The Los Alamos Historical Society and Mars, Incorporated. It showcases the personalities of Nobel Laureates associated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, including Roy Glauber, Joseph Rotblat and Hans Bethe.
The portraits are the work of German photographer Peter Badge. To date, Peter has photographed well over 400 Nobel Laureates, capturing the unique personality of each. His effort began in 2000 with a small portraiture project commissioned by a number of renowned organizations including the Smithsonian Institution and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Since then, the project has been based with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and has evolved into a long-term mission that will be celebrated in Los Alamos.
“It is such an honor to showcase the portraits of Nobel Laureates in the place where so many of them lived and conducted research that has also delivered tremendous value to society,” said Badge. The historic Hans Bethe House was home to two Nobel Prize winners during the Manhattan Project. A gallery in the house, known as the Nobel Nook, features Fred Reines’ Nobel Prize and tells the stories of two dozen Nobel Prize winners associated with Los Alamos.
This exhibit is sponsored by Mars, Incorporated; the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings; and the Los Alamos Historical Society.
Since 1943, Los Alamos has served as a remarkable gathering place for genius, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory has hosted countless groundbreaking discoveries that have transformed the way we see the world. In fact, over the years more than two dozen Nobel Prize winners have been associated with or worked at the laboratory.
In celebration of these achievements, the Los Alamos History Museum is hosting an extraordinary exhibit of Nobel Laureate portraits by Peter Badge from January 12 – April 27, 2018. The exhibit represents an uncommon collaboration between The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, The Los Alamos Historical Society and Mars, Incorporated. It showcases the personalities of Nobel Laureates associated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, including Roy Glauber, Joseph Rotblat and Hans Bethe.
The portraits are the work of German photographer Peter Badge. To date, Peter has photographed well over 400 Nobel Laureates, capturing the unique personality of each. His effort began in 2000 with a small portraiture project commissioned by a number of renowned organizations including the Smithsonian Institution and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Since then, the project has been based with the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and has evolved into a long-term mission that will be celebrated in Los Alamos.
“It is such an honor to showcase the portraits of Nobel Laureates in the place where so many of them lived and conducted research that has also delivered tremendous value to society,” said Badge. The historic Hans Bethe House was home to two Nobel Prize winners during the Manhattan Project. A gallery in the house, known as the Nobel Nook, features Fred Reines’ Nobel Prize and tells the stories of two dozen Nobel Prize winners associated with Los Alamos.
This exhibit is sponsored by Mars, Incorporated; the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings; and the Los Alamos Historical Society.
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The Los Alamos History Museum is supported and maintained by the Los Alamos Historical Society, which is responsible for historical collections, document and photo archives, outreach, and educational programming. The Society is an educational partner with the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
