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List of computer museums

A computer museum is devoted to the study of historic computer hardware and software, where a “museum” is a “permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and enjoyment”, as defined by the International Council of Museums.

Asia
IsraelThe Israeli Personal Computer Museum, Haifa JapanIPSJ Computer Museum - A virtual museum by IPSJ, an academic society of information processing in Japan, and affiliated physical computer museums ("satellite museums") all over Japan, such as: • KCG Computer Museum, Kyoto - a computer museum by KCG, an education institution • Microcomputer Museum in Ōme,_TokyoTokyo University of Science Museum of Science's "History of the Computer" South KoreaNexon Computer Museum ==Oceania==
Oceania
AustraliaThe Australian Computer Museum Society, Inc, NSW - very large collection • The Nostalgia Box, Perth - Video Game Museum • Powerhouse Museum - Has Computer Exhibit • Monash Museum of Computing History, Monash University New ZealandTechvana, Auckland ==Europe==
Europe
Belgium • Computermuseum NAM-IP, NamurUnisys Computermuseum, Haren (Brussels) CroatiaPeek&Poke, Rijeka Czech Republic • Technical museum in Brno - Computer Technology • Retro Computer, Žatec • Muzeum počítačové techniky, Higher Education College Žďár nad Sázavou • Arcade Hry, Červený Újezd (arcade video games) • Game World, Prague (arcade video games) Denmark • Dansk Datahistorisk Forening, Hedehusene Estonia • Arvutimuuseum, Tallinn FinlandRupriikki Media Museum, TampereFinnish Museum of Games, Tampere • The Functional Computer Museum of Kallio, Helsinki FranceACONIT, Grenoble • , ParisFEB, AngersMusée des Arts et Métiers, ParisMusée de l'imprimerie, LyonAMISA : Association pour un Musée de l'informatique, Sophia AntipolisINRIA : Institut national de recherche en Informatique et Automatique, Montbonnot-Saint-MartinSilicium, Toulouse GermanyComputerspielemuseum Berlin, Berlin - Video Game Museum • Arithmeum, Bonn - Comprehensive collection of historical calculating machines • BINARIUM, Dortmund - Video Game and Personal Computer Museum • Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, PaderbornComputermuseum der Fakultät Informatik, University of StuttgartOldenburger Computer-Museum, OldenburgComputeum, Vilshofen, with a selection from the Munich Computer Warehouse, Private Collection • 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 • Computermuseum der Fachhochschule Kiel, Kiel:de:Analog Computer Museum, Bad Schwalbach / Hettenhain - Large collection of analog computers, working and under restoration. GreeceHellenic IT Museum, in Athens IrelandComputer and Communications Museum of Ireland, National University of Ireland Italy • Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante, Palazzolo Acreide (Siracusa) • Museo del Computer, via per Occhieppo, 29, 13891 Camburzano (Biella) • Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica, CosenzaUNESCO Computer Museum, PaduaAll About Apple Museum, SavonaPiedmontese Museum of Informatics, TurinVIGAMUS, Rome - Video Game Museum • Tecnologic@mente, IvreaMuseum of Computing Machinery, Pisa • IMuC - Computer Museum Messina, Messina Lithuania • Retrobytes cafe - vintage computers gallery, Kaunas The Netherlands • Bonami SpelComputer Museum, Zwolle • Computer Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam • Computermuseum Hack42, ArnhemHomeComputerMuseum, Helmond • Rotterdams Radio Museum, Rotterdam PolandMuzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki, KatowiceMuzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery (Muzeum Gier), WrocławApple Muzeum Polska, Piaseczno Portugal • 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 Romania • Retro IT, Arad RussiaMuseum of Soviet Arcade Machines, Moscow • Yandex Museum, Moscow • Yandex Museum, Saint-Petersburg • Moscow Apple Museum • Antimuseum of Computers and Games, Yekaterinburg • Museum of Dmitriy Bachilo, Novosibirsk • IT Museum of Perm University, Perm • Cyber museum, Murom SloveniaComputer History Museum Slovenia, Ljubljana Slovakia • Computer Museum SAV, Bratislava SpainComputer Museum Garcia Santesmases (MIGS), Complutense UniversityMuseum of Informatics, Polytechnic University of Valencia • Museo de la Historia de la Computacion, Cáceres Sweden • Dalby Datormuseum, Dalby on the island Aspö north of Strängnäs SwitzerlandMusée Bolo, LausanneEnter Museum, Solothurn Ukraine • Software & Computer Museum, Kyiv, Kharkiv United KingdomNorthwest Computer Museum, Leigh, Greater ManchesterThe National Museum of Computing, Bletchley ParkThe Centre for Computing History, CambridgeRetro Computer Museum, LeicesterScience Museum, London, LondonNational Archive for the History of Computing, University of ManchesterNational Videogame Arcade, NottinghamMuseum of Computing, SwindonTime Line Computer Archive, WigtonThe Micro Museum, RamsgateHome Computer Museum, HullIBM Hursley Museum, Hursley • Derby Computer Museum See also: Computer Conservation Society ==North America==
North America
Canada Manitoba • Manitoba Computer & Gaming Museum Winnipeg OntarioPersonal Computer Museum, BrantfordUniversity of Waterloo [https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/ Computer Museum, Waterloo, Ontario • Vintage Computer Museum, Toronto, Ontario • York University Computer Museum or YUCoM, York University QuebecEMusée, MontrealiMusée, Montreal SaskatchewanUniversity of Saskatchewan Computer Museum United States ArizonaSouthwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation, Glendale, Arizona CaliforniaComputer History Museum, Mountain View, CaliforniaDigiBarn Computer Museum, Boulder Creek, CaliforniaMuseum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Oakland, CaliforniaThe Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CaliforniaIntel Museum, Santa Clara, California D.C.Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. GeorgiaMimms Museum of Technology and Art, Roswell, Georgia • Museum of Technology at Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia Kansas • The Topeka Computing Museum, Topeka, Kansas - Now being liquidated, online archive only. MarylandSystem Source Computer Museum, Hunt Valley, Maryland Minnesota,Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota MontanaAmerican Computer & Robotics Museum, Bozeman, Montana New Jersey • Vintage Computer Federation Museum, Wall, New Jersey New YorkThe Strong, International Center for the History of Electronic Games, Rochester, NY - Focus on Retrogaming but many games are on vintage personal computers. Ohio • Dayton Computer Museum, Riverside, Ohio - From 600 B.C. to the present. Examples of every Computer Generation with many from the beginning of personal computers. Not only the artifact, but the history, what does it do and how does it do it? A project of the Dayton Microcomputer Association. Pennsylvania • Kennett Classic Computer Museum, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania • Large Scale Systems Museum, New Kensington, Pennsylvania • The Computer History Learning Center aka The Computer Church, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania Rhode IslandRhode Island Computer Museum, Warwick, Rhode Island TexasNational Videogame Museum, Frisco, Texas VirginiaU.Va. Computer Museum, University of Virginia • Virginia Computer Museum WashingtonLiving Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington - Closed in 2020, liquidated in 2024. • Microsoft Visitor Center, Redmond, WashingtonThe Interim Computer Museum, Tukwila, Washington WisconsinChippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin - Exhibit offering "Seymour Cray and The Supercomputer" ==South America==
Online
• The ICL Computer Museum (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 • Vintage Mac Museum - Now a part of the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, Montana. ==See also==
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