List of computer museums
Below is a list of computer museums around the world, organized by continent and country, then alphabetically by location.
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Africa
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Asia
Russia
South Korea
Australia
- The Nostalgia Box, Perth - Video Game Museum[1]
- Powerhouse Museum - Has Computer Exhibit
- Monash Museum of Computing History, Monash University[2]
Europe
Belgium
- Information Technology Museum - Unisys Belgium, Brussels[3]
Croatia
Finland
Germany
- Computerspielemuseum Berlin, Berlin
- Computer Game Museum of Berlin, Berlin - Video Game Museum
- Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum, Paderborn[6]
- Computermuseum der Fakultat Informatik, University of Stuttgart[7]
- Oldenburger Computer-Museum, Oldenburger
- Computeum, Munich - Computer Warehouse, Private Collection[8]
- Deutsches Museum, Munich - Large computer collection in their Communications exhibit
- technikum29 living museum, Frankfurt - Working and under restoration.
Ireland
Italy
- UNESCO Computer Museum, Padova[10]
- All About Apple Museum, Savona[11]
- VIGAMUS, Rome - Video Game Museum
The Netherlands
- Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam[12]
Slovenia
- Computer Museum Društvo Računalniški Muzej, Ljubljana
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park
- The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge
- Retro Computer Museum, Leicester[14]
- Science Museum, London, London
- National Archive for the History of Computing, University of Manchester[15]
- National Videogame Arcade, Nottingham
- The Computing Futures Museum, Staffordshire University - In association with the BCS[16]
- Museum of Computing, Swindon
- Time Line Computer Archive, Wigton[17]
- The Micro Museum, Ramsgate[18]
See also: Computer Conservation Society[19]
North America
Canada
- Personal Computer Museum, Brantford
- iMusée, Montreal[20]
- York University Computer Museum or YUCoM, York University
- Nova Scotia First Museum, Annapolis Royal
United States
- Southwest Museum of Engineering,Communications and Computation, Glendale, Arizona[21]
- 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
- The Computer Museum of America, Roswell, Georgia - Temporary Location until Museum opens in 2017[22]
- The Topeka Computing Museum, Topeka, Kansas[23]
- Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
- American Computer & Robotics Museum, Bozeman, Montana
- Rhode Island Computer Museum, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
- Bugbook Historical Computer Museum, Floyd, Virginia
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. -
- Living Computer Museum, Seattle, Washington
- Microsoft Visitor Center, Redmond, Washington
- U.Va. Computer Museum, University of Virginia[24]
- Museum of Computer Culture, Austin, Texas[25]
- Retro-Tech, Peoria, Illinois - Permanently closed on September 1, 2016
- Digital Equipment Museum, Burlington, Massachusetts
- The Jefferson Computer Museum, Jefferson County, Wisconsin[26]
- The Strong, International Center for the History of Electronic Games, Rochester, NY - Focus on Retrogaming but many games are on vintage personal computers.
South America
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Online
- Old Computer Museum - [1]
- San Diego Computer Museum - Official Website - Physical objects were donated to the San Diego State University Library, but still does online exhibits
- Obsolete Computer Museum- Official Website
- Old-Computers.com - Official Website
- HP Computer Museum - Official Website
- Early Office Museum - Official Website
- IBM Archives - Official Website
- EveryMac.com - Official Website
- Bitsavers.org - Official Website - Software and Document Archive
- TAM (The Apple Museum) - Official Website - Apple Computers and Products
- Rewind Museum - Official Website - Virtual museum with traveling physical exhibits
- Virtual Museum of Computing
- The Computer Collector - Official Website
- New Computer Museum - Official Website
- IPSJ Computer Museum - Official Website - Computers of Japan
- MOCA - Museum of Computer Art - Official Website
- Freeman PC Museum - Official Website
- FEMICOM Museum - Official Website - Femininity in 20th century Video games, computers and electronic toys
- Home Computer Museum - Official Website
- Malware Museum - Official Website - Malware programs from the 80's and 90's that have been stripped of their destructive properties.
See also
References
- ^ "TheNostalgiaBox". thenostalgiabox.com.au. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Monash Museum of Computing History".
- ^ "Information Technology Museum - Unisys Belgium (Jacques Laffut Collection) - Brussels' Museums". www.brusselsmuseums.be.
- ^ "PEEK&POKE Muzej Računala - Computer Museum". www.peekpoke.hr.
- ^ "Media Museum Rupriikki - Museokeskus Vapriikki".
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Computeum, One Of The Biggest Computer Museums in Germany". Hackaday. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "FWT UNESCO Computer Museum Home Page". musi.fwtunesco.org.
- ^ "All About Apple Museum - The alive Apple Museum in Italy". All About Apple.
- ^ "UvA Computermuseum". ub.fnwi.uva.nl.
- ^ "Complutense University of Madrid". www.ucm.es.
- ^ "Contact Us". www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk.
- ^ "http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/research/nahc/".
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ "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. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "UK Computer Museums". UK: Computer Conservation Society. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ http://imusee.net/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Southwest Museum Of Engineering, Communications and Computation -Arizona's Radio and Television Museum - Also History Of Computers andComputation (SMECC)". www.smecc.org.
- ^ http://www.computermuseumofamerica.com/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "The Topeka Computing Museum". www.gateman.com.
- ^ "The U.Va. Computer Museum". www.cs.virginia.edu. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Power up the Past!". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "The Jefferson Computer Museum". www.threedee.com.