The ASRT Museum and Archives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, now offers onsite visitors a video tour of its one-of-a-kind museum. Visitors can explore the museum at their own pace using a handheld device with headphones to learn about the 131-year history of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists and the medical imaging and radiation therapy profession.

The video tour features 17 stops narrated by ASRT Museum and Archives Executive Director Bill Brennan, M.A., R.T.(R)(CT). “Typically, we prefer to have an on-staff registered technologist give the tour, but this option offers visitors more flexibility,” said Brennan. Appointments for a video tour are required, and guests should expect to spend more than an hour in the museum. The traditional guided tour also remains available by appointment only.

Visitors are introduced to the man who started it all with his discovery of the x-ray, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. Key stops on the tour highlight great pioneers, including physicist and chemist Marie Curie and engineer and innovator Nikola Tesla, and detail the military’s influence on the profession. The tour also showcases authentic medical imaging equipment used on the battlefield during three wars.

Another key stop, Healing or Harmful Rays, details medical pioneers, who, for the sake of further discovery, often used their own bodies as test subjects at great personal cost.

To explore the ASRT Museum and Archives’ in-person video tour, send an appointment request to [email protected].