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Visitor tip
Request a docent-led tour to maximize your experience. Many docents are retired SRS employees with 30+ years of expertise who can explain complex nuclear history and Cold War-era technology in depth, making the exhibits significantly more educational and engaging.
Visitor tip
Use the interactive database of relocated gravesites if you have family connections to the displaced towns of Ellenton, Dunbarton, or surrounding areas. This exhibit is a unique resource for genealogical research and local family history.
Visitor tip
The museum is designed for all ages and is housed in a historic building with exhibits integrated throughout, including educational displays even in the restrooms. Plan to visit with family members of varying ages—there's content for everyone.
About Savannah River Site Museum
Cold War science & technology exhibits. Museum dedicated to the Savannah River Site's scientific & technological role in the Cold War.
Quick Facts
- Type
- History Museum
- Focus
- Savannah River Site nuclear facility and Cold War history
- Location
- Historic Dibble Memorial Library building in Aiken
- Admission
- Free
- Highlights
- Interactive geosite map, displaced residents database, knowledgeable docent tours
What visitors say
This museum explores the local, scientific, and geopolitical impact of the 310 square mile nuclear facility. The museum is housed inside the former Dibble Memorial Library building, Aiken's very first dedicated library building, named…
Small museum, but packed with so many interesting facts. Our docent retired from the SRS after 37 years of service, and was wonderful. If you are in town, stop in for a visit! Currently there is no gift shop, there just isn't room.…
Interesting information on the history of the Savannah River Site. A number of exhibits tell the stories of some of the people relocated due to the site construction. Wish the museum was bigger as there is so much that could be included.
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Did You Know?
- The museum is housed in the former Dibble Memorial Library building, Aiken's first dedicated library building, named after prominent local banker Henry M. Dibble
- The Savannah River Plant displaced 6,000 local residents from entire towns like Ellenton and Dunbarton when the federal government took over the land in 1950, and the museum features an interactive database to locate relocated family gravesites
- President Harry Truman requested DuPont build the Savannah River Plant in 1950 to produce nuclear materials including tritium and plutonium during the Cold War
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