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Combo Timeline 2
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Connor Matheson
⟶ Updated 14 Nov 2018 ⟶
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Strecker Museum
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Events
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.
