Free AMSE admisssion for library card holders
The American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge Public Library have partnered to offer free admission to library card holders. The partnership is designed to make AMSE accessible to all Oak...
View ArticleFree admission at AMSE Saturday with downloaded Smithsonian ticket
Admission at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge will be free on Saturday for visitors who have downloaded a ticket from the Smithsonian Magazine website. It’s the eighth annual...
View ArticleORNL director gives lab update during Tuesday lecture
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason will give an update on the lab during a Tuesday lecture at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It’s the 15th Annual Dick Smyser Community...
View ArticleAtomic Art exhibit opens at AMSE today
An art exhibit that opened at the American Museum of Science and Energy today features paintings based on the Atomic Age and “Doomtowns,” replica cities built in Nevada to test the effects of atomic...
View ArticleAMSE hosts ‘Movies at the Museum’ in November, December
Three movies, including “Jurassic Park” and a docudrama on the Manhattan Project, will be shown free at the American Museum of Science and Energy in November. The museum will show three more films in...
View ArticleFree movie and AMSE admission Friday
The American Museum of Science and Energy is offering free admission and a free movie Friday night. The free movie is ”King Kong vs. Godzilla,” a 1962 film about a pharmaceutical company that captures...
View ArticleFree movie nights at AMSE continue this month
The American Museum of Science and Energy is offering free admission to three more movies on Friday nights in December. It’s part of the ”Movies at the Museum” series that started in November. This...
View ArticleOne hundred Westcott photos now on AMSE website
During the past year, the World War II images taken in Oak Ridge by James Edward Westcott, the official U.S. Army Manhattan Project photographer, have been scanned one image at a time every Tuesday and...
View ArticleAuthor of Smoky Mountains Park history book at AMSE on Saturday
A history exhibit curator and author will present a program and sign his book, “The Great Smoky Mountains National Park/Postcard History Series,” at the American Museum of Science and Energy on...
View ArticlePost-war photos from Japan in 1945 opens at AMSE
An exhibit that opened this month at an Oak Ridge museum includes photos documenting the aftermath of U.S. bombing raids in Japan in August 1945 during World War II. The exhibit at the American Museum...
View Article‘Girls of Atomic City’ author will be at March 19 lecture, book signing
A March 19 community lecture will feature an author who has written about Oak Ridge women and the second world war. Denise Kiernan is author of “The Girls of the Atomic City—the Untold Story of the...
View ArticleAMSE announces bridge building contest winners
The American Museum of Science and Energy has announced the winners in the East Tennessee Model Bridge Building Contest earlier this month. The contest was held March 9 at AMSE. Students entered 113...
View ArticleAMSE summer camp registration under way
Parents of upcoming fifth, sixth and seventh graders can register their students now for the Science Explorer Camp conducted by the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. AMSE educators...
View ArticleDOE’s public bus tour begins Monday
The U.S. Department of Energy’s 2013 Oak Ridge facilities public bus tour begins June 3 and continues through Aug. 30. The tour offers visitors a first-hand look at the DOE’s Oak Ridge facilities and...
View ArticleSecret City Festival features ‘something for everyone’
The annual Secret City Festival started today, and it features Manhattan Project bus tours and history displays, World War II living history activities and demonstrations, arts and crafts and antiques...
View ArticleDOE summer bus tours end Aug. 30
The public bus tours of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge facilities end Aug. 30. It’s the last day of the 2013 season. The tours include stops at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Y-12 National...
View ArticleDOE summer bus tours end for 2013
The public bus tours of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge facilities end today, the last day of the 2013 season. The tours include stops at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Y-12 National Security...
View ArticleFree movie and AMSE admission Friday
The American Museum of Science and Energy is offering free admission and a free movie Friday night. The free movie is ”King Kong vs. Godzilla,” a 1962 film about a pharmaceutical company that captures...
View ArticleFree movie nights at AMSE continue this month
The American Museum of Science and Energy is offering free admission to three more movies on Friday nights in December. It’s part of the ”Movies at the Museum” series that started in November. This...
View ArticleOne hundred Westcott photos now on AMSE website
During the past year, the World War II images taken in Oak Ridge by James Edward Westcott, the official U.S. Army Manhattan Project photographer, have been scanned one image at a time every Tuesday and...
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