List of computer museums
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Below is a list of computer museums around the world, organized by continent and country, then alphabetically by location.
Asia[edit]
Japan[edit]
- IPSJ Computer Museum - A virtual museum by IPSJ, an academic society of information processing in Japan[1]
- KCG Computer Museum, Kyoto - a computer museum by KCG, an education institution[2]
- Tokyo University of Science Museum of Science's "History of the Computer"[3]
South Korea[edit]
Australia[edit]
- The Australian Computer Museum Society, Inc, NSW - very large collection[4]
- The Nostalgia Box, Perth - Video Game Museum[5]
- Powerhouse Museum - Has Computer Exhibit
- Monash Museum of Computing History, Monash University[6]
Europe[edit]
Belgium[edit]
- Computermuseum NAM-IP, Namur[7]
- Unisys Computermuseum, Haren (Brussels)
Croatia[edit]
Czech Republic[edit]
Denmark[edit]
- Dansk Datahistorisk Forening, Hedehusene[9]
Finland[edit]
France[edit]
- ACONIT, Grenoble[12]
- MO5, Paris[13]
- FEB, Angers[14]
- Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris[15]
- Musée de l’imprimerie, Lyon[16]
- AMISA : Association pour un Musée de l’informatique, Sophia Antipolis[17]
- INRIA : Institut national de recherche en Informatique et Automatique, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin[18]
- Silicium, Toulouse[19]
Germany[edit]
- Computerspielemuseum Berlin, Berlin - Video Game Museum
- BINARIUM, Dortmund - Video Game and Personal Computer Museum[20]
- Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn[21]
- Computermuseum der Fakultät Informatik, University of Stuttgart[22]
- Oldenburger Computer-Museum, Oldenburg
- Computeum, Vilshofen,[23][24] with a selection from the Munich Computer Warehouse, Private Collection[25]
- Deutsches Museum, Munich - Large computer collection in their Communications exhibit
- technikum29 living museum, Frankfurt - Re-opened in January 2020.
- Computerarchiv Muenchen, Munich - Computer, Video Games and Magazine Archive[26]
- Computermuseum der Fachhochschule Kiel, Kiel
- de:Analog Computer Museum,[27] Bad Schwalbach / Hettenhain - Large collection of analog computers, working and under restoration.
Greece[edit]
- Hellenic IT Museum
Ireland[edit]
Israel[edit]
Italy[edit]
- Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante, Palazzolo Acreide (Siracusa)
- Museo del Computer, via per Occhieppo, 29, 13891 Camburzano (Biella)
- Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica, Cosenza
- UNESCO Computer Museum, Padova[30]
- All About Apple Museum, Savona[31]
- Piedmontese Museum of Informatics, Turin[32]
- VIGAMUS, Rome - Video Game Museum
- Tecnologic@mente, Ivrea
- Museo degli strumenti per il calcolo, Pisa
The Netherlands[edit]
- Bonami SpelComputer Museum, Zwolle[33]
- Computer Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam[34]
- Computermuseum Hack42, Arnhem[35]
- HomeComputerMuseum, Helmond[36]
- Rotterdams Radio Museum, Rotterdam[37]
Poland[edit]
- Muzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki, Katowice[38]
- Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery (Muzeum Gier), Wrocław[39]
- Apple Muzeum Polska, Piaseczno[40]
Portugal[edit]
- LOAD ZX Spectrum Museum, Cantanhede
- Museu Faraday, IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa
- Nostalgica - Museu de Videojogos e tecnologia, Lisboa
- Museu dos Computadores Inforap, Braga
- Museu Virtual da Informática, Universidade do Minho, Braga
- Museu das Comunicações, Lisboa
- Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa
Russia[edit]
- Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, Moscow
- Yandex Museum, Moscow]
- Yandex Museum, Saint-Petersburg
- Moscow Apple Museum
- Antimuseum of Computers and Games, Yekaterinburg
Slovenia[edit]
- Computer Museum Društvo Računalniški Muzej, Ljubljana
Slovakia[edit]
- Computer Museum SAV, Bratislava
Spain[edit]
- Computer Museum Garcia Santesmases (MIGS), Complutense University[41]
- Museum of Informatics, Polytechnic University of Valencia[42]
- Museo de la Historia de la Computacion, Cáceres
Switzerland[edit]
Ukraine[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
- Northwest Computer Museum, Leigh, Wigan
- The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park
- The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge
- Retro Computer Museum, Leicester[43]
- Science Museum, London, London
- National Archive for the History of Computing, University of Manchester[44]
- National Videogame Arcade, Nottingham
- The Computing Futures Museum, Staffordshire University - In association with the BCS[45]
- Museum of Computing, Swindon
- Time Line Computer Archive, Wigton[46]
- The Micro Museum, Ramsgate[47]
- Home Computer Museum, Hull[48]
- IBM Hursley Museum, Hursley[49]
- Derby Computer Museum[50]
- The ICL Computer Museum[51]
See also: Computer Conservation Society[52]
North America[edit]
Canada[edit]
- EMusée, Montreal[53]
- Personal Computer Museum, Brantford
- iMusée, Montreal[54]
- York University Computer Museum or YUCoM, York University
- University of Saskatchewan Computer Museum[55]
United States[edit]
Arizona[edit]
California[edit]
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
- DigiBarn Computer Museum, Boulder Creek, California
- Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Oakland, California
- The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California
- Intel Museum, Santa Clara, California
D.C.[edit]
Georgia[edit]
- Computer Museum of America, Roswell, Georgia
- Museum of Technology at Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia[57]
Kansas[edit]
- The Topeka Computing Museum, Topeka, Kansas - Now being liquidated, online archive only.[58]
Maryland[edit]
Minnesota[edit]
Montana[edit]
New Jersey[edit]
- Vintage Computer Federation Museum, Wall, New Jersey
New York[edit]
- The Strong, International Center for the History of Electronic Games, Rochester, NY - Focus on Retrogaming but many games are on vintage personal computers.
Pennsylvania[edit]
- Kennett Classic Computer Museum, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
- Large Scale Systems Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Computer Museum, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island[edit]
Texas[edit]
- Brazos Valley Computer Museum, Bryan, Texas[60]
- Museum of Computer Culture, Austin, Texas[61]
- National Videogame Museum, Frisco, Texas[62]
Virginia[edit]
- U.Va. Computer Museum, University of Virginia[63]
- Virginia Computer Museum [64]
Washington[edit]
South America[edit]
Argentina[edit]
- Espacio TEC,[65] Bahia Blanca
- Museo de Informática UNPA-UARG, Río Gallegos
- Museo de Informática de la República Argentina - Fundación ICATEC (closed), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Brasil[edit]
Online[edit]
- The ICL Computer Museum[66] (UK)
- MV Museu de Tecnologia (Brazil)
- Old Computer Museum
- San Diego Computer Museum - Physical objects were donated to the San Diego State University Library, but still does online exhibits
- Obsolete Computer Museum
- Old-Computers.com
- HP Computer Museum
- Early Office Museum
- IBM Archives
- EveryMac.com
- Bitsavers.org - Software and Document Archive
- TAM (The Apple Museum) - Apple Computers and Products
- Rewind Museum - Virtual museum with traveling physical exhibits
- The Computer Collector
- New Computer Museum
- IPSJ Computer Museum - Computers of Japan
- Freeman PC Museum
- FEMICOM Museum - Femininity in 20th century Video games, computers and electronic toys
- Home Computer Museum
- Malware Museum - Malware programs from the 80's and 90's that have been stripped of their destructive properties.
- History Computers
- KASS Computer Museum - A computer history museum & private collection
- Russian Virtual Computer Museum - a history of Soviet Computers from the late 1940s
- Soviet Digital Electronics Museum - a museum of Soviet electronic calculators, PCs and some other devices
- Development of Computer Science and Technologies in Ukraine - Ukrainian virtual Computer Museum
- Spectrum Generation collection, supporting the LOAD ZX Spectrum Museum in Portugal
- Home Computer Museum UK
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ IPSJ Computer Museum and its satellite museums
- ^ KCG Computer Meseum
- ^ Museum of Science, TUC
- ^ "Australian Computer Museum Society".
- ^ "TheNostalgiaBox". thenostalgiabox.com.au. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Monash Museum of Computing History".
- ^ "Computer Museum NAM-IP". Computer Museum NAM-IP.
- ^ "PEEK&POKE Muzej Računala - Computer Museum". www.peekpoke.hr.
- ^ "Dansk Datahistorisk Forening | Dataarkæologerne" (in Danish). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ "Media Museum Rupriikki - Museokeskus Vapriikki".
- ^ "The Finnish Museum of Games - Museokeskus Vapriikki".
- ^ "Association Pour un Conservatoire de l'informatique et de la télématique".
- ^ "Association MO5.com".
- ^ "Fédération des équipes Bull".
- ^ "Musée des Arts et Métiers".
- ^ "Musée de l'imprimerie".
- ^ "AMISA".
- ^ "INRIA".
- ^ "Silicium".
- ^ "[BINARIUM. Deutsches Museum der digitalen Kultur]". www.binarium.de.
- ^ KG, HDNET GmbH & Co. "HNF - Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum - The world´s biggest computer museum in Paderborn". www.hnf.de.
- ^ Krause, Klemens. "Computermuseum of the faculty of computer sciences". computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
- ^ "Man from Munich gives City of Vilshofen a Computer Museum".
- ^ "Computeum is taking shape".
- ^ "The Computeum, One Of The Biggest Computer Museums in Germany". Hackaday. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Computerarchiv Muenchen : süddeutsches Museum für digitale Entwicklungsgeschichte". Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
- ^ "Analog Computer Museum". analogmuseum.org.
- ^ "Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland | MSPI Participants | Museums Standards Programme for Ireland | Our Initiatives | Museums and Archive | The Heritage Council". www.heritagecouncil.ie. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "The Israeli Personal Computer Museum Page".
- ^ "FWT UNESCO Computer Museum Home Page". musi.fwtunesco.org.
- ^ "All About Apple Museum - The alive Apple Museum in Italy". All About Apple.
- ^ https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-piemontese-dell-informatica
- ^ "Bonami Spelcomputer Museum". computermuseum.nl.
- ^ "UvA Computermuseum". ub.fnwi.uva.nl.
- ^ "Computermuseum Hack42". museum.hack42.nl.
- ^ "HomeComputerMuseum". www.homecomputermuseum.nl.
- ^ "Rotterdams Radio Museum". rotterdamsradiomuseum.nl.
- ^ "Muzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki Home Page". www.muzeumkomputerow.edu.pl.
- ^ "Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery Home Page". www.gikme.pl.
- ^ "Apple Muzeum Polska". www.applemuzeumpolska.pl/.
- ^ "Complutense University of Madrid". www.ucm.es.
- ^ "Museum of Informatics". www.upv.es.
- ^ "The Retro Computer Museum". www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk.
- ^ "Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine". Archived from the original on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
- ^ "The Staffordshire University Computing Futures Museum Home Page - a computer hardware museum/ teaching resource on the Stafford campus of Staffordshire University, The Octagon, Beaconside, Stafford, Staffordshire, UK". www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk.
- ^ "Time Line Computer Archive". t-lcarchive.org.
- ^ "The Micro Museum - Computer Museum - Ramsgate Kent UK". The Micro Museum - Computer Museum - Ramsgate Kent UK.
- ^ "Home Computer Museum - Hull, Humberside UK". www.homecomputermuseum.co.uk.
- ^ "IBM Hursley Museum Park". slx-online.biz/hursley/index.asp.
- ^ "Derby Computer Museum". www.derbycomputermuseum.co.uk.
- ^ "The ICL Computer Museum". vintage-icl-computers.com.
- ^ "UK Computer Museums". UK: Computer Conservation Society. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ http://emusee.org//.
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{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "University of Saskatchewan Computer Museum - UofS Computer Museum | University of Saskatchewan". computermuseum.usask.ca. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ "Southwest Museum Of Engineering, Communications and Computation -Arizona's Radio and Television Museum - Also History Of Computers andComputation (SMECC)". www.smecc.org.
- ^ "Museum of Technology: Middle Georgia State University". www.mga.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ "The Topeka Computing Museum". www.gateman.com.
- ^ "The System Source Computer Museum".
- ^ "A locally curated collection of old computers". www.bv-computer-museum.org. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ "Power up the Past!". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "National Videogame Museum". www.nvmusa.org. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ "The U.Va. Computer Museum". www.cs.virginia.edu. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Virginia Computer Museum".
- ^ "Espacio TEC - Museo de Informática".
- ^ "www.vintage-icl-computers.com". www.vintage-icl-computers.com. Retrieved 2022-12-26.