Combo Timeline 2
Category: Other
Updated: 14 Nov 2018
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Created byConnor Matheson
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April 6, 1991: Historic Village opens to the public.January 31, 2011: Groundbreaking ceremony for
the Mayborn Museum Complex takes place.May 22, 2004: The Mayborn Museum Complex opens to the public.July 10, 2015: Barrack Obama, via a presidential proclamation,
establishes the Waco Mammoth National Monument.December 5, 2009: The Waco Mammoth Site opens to the public.September 11, 2001: Terrorist attacks of 9/11
cause the closing of the museum (then located
on Kirtland Air Force Base Campus) due to
security concerns.May 11, 2002: The museum re-opens to the public
in a rented facility in Albuquerque's Old Town.Periods
1985: Governor Bill Daniel and the Daniel family donate 14
buildings and 6,000+ artifacts to Baylor. Additionally, the family
provides $300,000 for the Strecker to hire a curator.
This collection becomes the basis for the Governor Bill and Vara
Daniel Historic Village.1996: Sam Jack McGlasson donates 4.93 acres of land, including
the mammoth remains dig site, to the City of Waco and 100
additional acres of land around the dig site to Baylor. McGlasson
hoped to promote economic development of Waco through
such an act.1991: United States Congress charters the museum
as the nation's official atomic museum.1992: Establishment and incorporation of the National Atomic
Museum Foundation take place.1995: Sandia National Laboratories assumes
control of the museum.April 2009: The museum opens to the public
at its new location and is renamed the
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.2005: The National Atomic Museum Foundation
assumes control of the museum.
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