NEVADA TEST SITE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION

 
 


Mercury
"Base Camp"
for the NTS

 

About NATHI

NATHI is a cooperative partnership established in 1997 between DOE/NV, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation (NTSHF). For more information about NATHI, e-mail us at [email protected]

The Tour

Exhibits - Coming soon: featured exhibits and museum activities

Construction Update

Grand Opening Events

Smithsonian traveling exhibits, special speakers and gala events are planned for both the building grand opening in the summer of 2003 and the exhibit center grand opening once the exhibits have been completed. Stay tuned to this page for information, as it develops.

Exhibit Items Needed for Donation or Loan to the Museum

The following items are needed for various exhibits in the NATHI museum.  If you have any of these items and would like to donate or loan them to NATHI, please contact our exhibit consultant, Loretta Helling, by telephone at 702-295-1130 or my email at [email protected].

• Civil Defense audio/visual footage and artifacts
• Home Bomb Shelters audio/visual footage and artifacts
• "Duck and Cover" films
• 1950s music audio/visual and artifacts
• Popular culture items (how the nuclear age infiltrated into everyday life)
• 1950s era mannequins - male, female, child
• 1950s era clothing (for the mannequins to wear)
• Artifacts relating to atmospheric testing (scale nuclear bomb models,
 
diagrams, images)
• Physics/atom-related material from the 1950s (i.e., classroom or lab
  models of an atom, teaching aids)
• 1950s vintage television set with "rabbit ear" antennas
• Civil Rights Movement audio/visual footage, photographs, artifacts
• Moon landing audio/visual footage, photographs
• Vietnam War audio/visual footage, artifacts
• Anti-war, anti-nuclear protests audio/visual footage, artifacts
• Science and Innovation (universal applications of
  discoveries/inventions at the Nevada Test Site) - artifacts, displays

 
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