Matthew Modine Instagram – Just outside of Robert Oppenheimer’s house within the walls of Fuller Hall (where Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” was filmed of which he appears as Vannevar Bush), Matthew Modine received the first annual Golden Poplar Award at the Los Alamos inaugural Film & Cultural Festival. The grounds and dwellings housed the dawning of The Manhattan Project.
The Los Alamos History Museum is part of the Los Alamos Historical Society, which has been active for more than fifty years. The museum leads visitors on a journey from the Pajarito Plateau’s Ancestral Pueblo people to its homestead history, through the Ranch School era and the Manhattan Project period, to the present. Permanent exhibits include a room with panels about the people who lived in the area over the centuries: the Ancestral Pueblo people, homesteaders, the Manhattan Project, and Cold War, and the contemporary community. Another section introduces life at the Los Alamos Ranch School, a small, elite prep school which ran from 1917 until the army bought its land in 1942 for the Manhattan Project. In addition to providing top-flight academics, the school was run as a Boy Scout troop, Troop 22. It was the first equestrian scout group in the country and is still active today. Another part of the museum features the Manhattan Project, with artifacts, timeline, and a short film. There is a portrait of General Groves, primary military leader of the Manhattan Project, and a bust of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Scientific Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
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