American Museum of Science and Energy

American Museum of Science and Energy

Established	1949 (1949)
Location	115 East Main Street, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Coordinates	36°0′45.29″N 84°15′10.08″W / 36.0125806°N 84.2528000°W / 36.0125806; -84.2528000
Type	Science museum
Accreditation	American Alliance of Museums, Smithsonian Affiliations, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Executive director	Alan Lowe
Curator	Quinn Argall
Owner	AMSE Foundation
Website	amse.org

The American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) is a science museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, designed to teach children and adults about energy, especially nuclear power, and to document the role Oak Ridge played in the Manhattan Project. The museum opened as the American Museum of Atomic Energy in 1949^[1] in an old World War II cafeteria on Jefferson Circle. It moved to its second facility in 1975 and was renamed AMSE in 1978.^[2] As of June 2019, the museum is located in the shopping mall across the street from the old location.