Oppenheimer and Groves
Oppenheimer and Groves is a work of art in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Oppenheimer and Groves is situated nearby to the art gallery Fuller Lodge Art Center Gallery, as well as near the government office Los Alamos Arts Council & Los Alamos Historical Society.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.
Los Alamos History Museum
Museum
Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.
The Los Alamos History Museum is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.
Mesa Public Library
Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages. Mesa Public Library is situated 750 feet northwest of Oppenheimer and Groves.
Los Alamos County Airport
Aerodrome
Los Alamos Airport, also known as Los Alamos County Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos County Airport is situated 1½ miles east of Oppenheimer and Groves.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Alamos.
Los Alamos
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.
Oppenheimer and Groves
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Category: tourism
- Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.8816° or 35° 52′ 54″ northLongitude
-106.30197° or 106° 18′ 7″ westOpen location code
857MVMJX+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 5521092434OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statue
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fuller Lodge Art Center Gallery and Fuller Lodge Art Center.
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