Virtual Museum of Computing

Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)

Available in| English
Founded| 1994
Headquarters| University of Oxford (in 1994),

Oxford

United Kingdom

Area served| Worldwide
Created by| Jonathan Bowen
Founder(s)| Jonathan Bowen
Industry| Museums
Services| Virtual museum
Parent| Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp)
Website| museums.fandom.com
Launched| 1994
Current status| Hosted by MuseumsWiki

The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) is an eclectic collection of links and online resources concerning the history of computers and computer science.[1][2] It includes links to other related museums, both real and virtual, around the world, as well as having its own virtual galleries of information. A particular feature is the early computing pioneer Alan Turing, among others.[3]

This virtual museum was founded by Jonathan Bowen on 1 June 1995, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom .[4] It has been supported by Museophile Limited[5] and also forms part of the Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp), supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).[6] VMoC was subsequently hosted at the University of Reading and London South Bank University, and was mirrored around the world as part of VLmp. It is now available as a wiki on the MuseumsWiki, hosted on Fandom (formerly Wikia).[7]

## See also

* Virtual Library museums pages

## References

1. ↑ "Virtual Museum of Computing Web Site". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (4): 67. 1996.
2. ↑ Bowen, Jonathan P. (2005). "The Development of Science Museum Websites: Case Studies (Chapter XVIII)". E-learning and Virtual Science Centers, Section 3: Case Studies. Hershey, USA: Idea Group Publishing. pp. 366–392. http://www.jpbowen.com/pub/evsc05a.pdf. (Official information.)
3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `dev`
4. ↑ Bowen, Jonathan P. (2010). "A Brief History of Early Museums Online". The Rutherford Journal 3. http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article030103.html.
5. ↑ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Museophile Limited. //vmoc.museophile.org/.
6. ↑ "Virtual Museum of Computing". Virtual Library museums pages. International Council of Museums. http://archives.icom.museum/vlmp/computing.html.
7. ↑ "Virtual Museum of Computing". MuseumsWiki. Fandom. http://museums.fandom.com/VMoC. Retrieved 24 June 2021.

## External links

* Virtual Museum of Computing website
* Virtual Museum of Computing on Archive.org:
* Pioneers of Computing gallery, including Alan Turing and Charles Babbage
* A Brief History of Algebra and Computing gallery
* Early Microprocessor Instruction Set Cards gallery
* VMoC ICOM mirror website

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