Ask HN: Computer Science/Engineering Museums?

7 points by questionr 9 years ago | 7 comments

Any museums, exhibits or tours related to computer science/engineering?

Computer History Museum @ Mountain View http://www.computerhistory.org/

Intel Museum @ Santa Clara https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/intel-museum.html

Living Computer Museum @ Seattle http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/

f_allwein 9 years ago |

Bletchley Park is great for its own exhibition, plus it has the UK's national museum of computing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Museum_of_Compu...

There's a fine guidebook called the Geek Atlas, which should be what you're looking for. Bit US centric though: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596523213.do

OJFord 9 years ago | |

    > Bletchley Park is great for its own exhibition, plus it
    > has the UK's national museum of computing

Came to say the same. It's recently had a bout of lottery funding too.

They still have a running Colossus replica too - well worth a visit.

alblue 9 years ago | | |

Note that the museum of computing didn't get any of that funding, and visitors to the main Bletchley park site are not told about it apart from a single sign in the lobby. Unless you know it's there you won't find it.

http://www.tnmoc.org/

f_allwein 9 years ago | |

Oh, I forgot to mention: The Deutsches Museum in Munich, the world's largest museum of science and technology: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/index.php?id=1&L=1

DanBC 9 years ago |

I was going to say the BT Museum, but that closed to visitors in 1997(!).

The replacement is "Connected Earth": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_Earth

> Connected Earth is a UK network of organisations, primarily museums, that preserve the history of telecommunications in the UK. Heritage artefacts are physically dispersed to Connected Earth partners and other institutions as appropriate, and are brought together again online through virtual galleries, searchable catalogues and educational resources at its website.

csixty4 9 years ago |

MIT Museum http://mitmuseum.mit.edu

Jeema101 9 years ago |

I was just at the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT not too long ago. It's pretty small but they have some interesting stuff - for example, an Apple I donated by Woz, a control module from a Minuteman ICBM, some Apollo moon mission hardware, among other things...