The National Atomic Testing Museum (NATM) in Las Vegas has opened a Fallout-flavoured display featuring some of the IP’s most recognizable items.
The new exhibit invites fans to wander the wasteland at the Las Vegas location’s national science, history, and educational institution that harks back to the Nevada atomic bomb test sites.
World of Fallout
Fallout, from renowned developer Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks, began life inspired by EA and Interplay Productions’ 1988 first crack at an immersive post-apocalyptic RPG, Wasteland.
Concepts for Fallout began in 1994 and led to the publication of the first title in 1997, a collaboration between Interplay and Black Isle Studios. Since then, the RPG has led to six major releases being published under the Fallout banner.
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Those titles and their legacy are now on show in Sin City, which is one of the biggest inspirations for the classic, much-loved Fallout: New Vegas.
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The show, featuring Walton Goggins as the Ghoul and Ella Purnell’s Lucy MacLean, has hit 100 million viewers, which is not bad for an initially obscure RPG title confined to consoles and MS-DOS/Windows.
“There’s never been an exhibit that connects gaming, nuclear history, and atomic pop culture quite like this,” said Joseph Kent, chief community officer and curator at the National Atomic Testing Museum.
Crawl out to the Fallout
The NATM teased the event space in mid-October 2025, and the photos of the display have now been released.
The NATM teamed up with Bethesda to “present nuclear history through new lenses. By situating gaming lore within the broader context of science and culture, the exhibit is designed to engage both longtime Fallout fans and museum visitors.”
On show are mock examples of a Fallout home and the iconic suits the Vault Dweller dons as they exit the game’s tutorial and go forth into the irradiated remains of post-apocalyptic America.
Safety posters, a prominent theme throughout the game, cover the exhibition space’s walls, featuring Vault Boy, the Fallout series’ mascot, and the bobbleheads collected to buff perks.
Fictional brands that play a part in building the pre-world snacks and store items have been replicated, like the Blast Radius board game, Sugar Bombs cereal, and cleaning products like Abraxo.
The World of Fallout exhibition sits alongside real-world advancements in nuclear technology at the NATM, where a large nuclear reactor used in the development of the nuclear rocket and the first air-to-air missile, Genie, is on display.
In a fourth-wall-piercing display, there are personal atomic weapons developed to replace conventional weapons, such as the Backpack Nuke and the Crockett XM-388 projectile, which seems scarily similar to the Mini-Nuke from the Fallout franchise.
“‘World of Fallout’ redefines how a museum can tell a story by bringing a fictional universe face-to-face with the real events that inspired it,” concluded Kent.
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World of Fallout Exhibit: photo credit: Chris Wessling for National Atomic Testing Museum
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