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Museum Directory
Links to different categories of items in the collection
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Museum Library
Publications relating to the history of the radiological sciences
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Radiation Basics
General information about radiation
Featured Collections
The purpose of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity is to chronicle the scientific and commercial history of radioactivity and radiation. It has been deemed the official repository for historical radiological instruments by the Health Physics Society, and the Society has been generous in its financial support for the purchase of items.
The collection is the property of the not-for-profit ORAU Foundation, and it is located at the Professional Training Programs (PTP) training facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Unless noted otherwise, this website only features items actually in the collection. If you have any technical or historically-related questions about the collection, or if you are interested in making a donation, contact Dr. Paul Frame via email. Please do not ask about an appraisal—we do not attribute monetary values to items.
Atomic Finds: Rare collection and curator preserve radiation history
Paul Frame, Ph.D., a health physicist and trainer at ORAU, started the health physics instrumentation collection in the 1980s when he discovered X-ray tubes and other items in a cabinet. Over time, the collection has grown to include hundreds of items, many of them donated or purchased by either the Health Physics Society or the non-profit ORAU Foundation.
Pop Culture in the Atomic Age
Join Paul Frame, Ph.D., a health physicist and trainer at ORAU, as he shares a sampling of pop culture items and their backgrounds. This is the first in a series of videos about the Health Physics Historical Collection.
Frame started the collection in the 1980s when he discovered X-ray tubes and other items in a cabinet. Over time, the collection has grown to include hundreds of items, many of them donated or purchased by either the Health Physics Society or the non-profit ORAU Foundation.