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

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### Israel

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* The Israeli Personal Computer Museum, Haifa[1]

### Japan

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* IPSJ Computer Museum \- A virtual museum by IPSJ, an academic society of information processing in Japan[2]
* KCG Computer Museum, Kyoto \- a computer museum by KCG, an education institution[3]
* Tokyo University of Science Museum of Science's "History of the Computer"[4]

### South Korea

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* Nexon Computer Museum

## Oceania

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### Australia

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* The Australian Computer Museum Society, Inc, NSW \- very large collection[5]
* The Nostalgia Box, Perth \- Video Game Museum[6]
* Powerhouse Museum \- Has Computer Exhibit
* Monash Museum of Computing History, Monash University[7]

### New Zealand

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* Techvana, Auckland[8][9]

## Europe

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### Belgium

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* Computermuseum NAM-IP, Namur[10]
* Unisys Computermuseum, Haren (Brussels)

### Croatia

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* Peek&Poke, Rijeka[11]

### Czech Republic

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* Apple Museum, Prague

### Denmark

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* Dansk Datahistorisk Forening, Hedehusene[12]

### Finland

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* Rupriikki Media Museum, Tampere[13]
* Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere[14]

### France

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* ACONIT, Grenoble[15]
* MO5 [fr], Paris[16]
* FEB, Angers[17]
* Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris[18]
* Musée de l’imprimerie, Lyon[19]
* AMISA : Association pour un Musée de l’informatique, Sophia Antipolis[20]
* INRIA : Institut national de recherche en Informatique et Automatique, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin[21]
* Silicium, Toulouse[22]

### Germany

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* Computerspielemuseum Berlin, Berlin \- Video Game Museum
* BINARIUM, Dortmund \- Video Game and Personal Computer Museum[23]
* Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn[24]
* Computermuseum der Fakultät Informatik, University of Stuttgart[25]
* Oldenburger Computer-Museum, Oldenburg
* Computeum, Vilshofen,[26][27] with a selection from the Munich Computer Warehouse, Private Collection[28]
* 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[29]
* Computermuseum der Fachhochschule Kiel, Kiel
* de:Analog Computer Museum,[30] Bad Schwalbach / Hettenhain \- Large collection of analog computers, working and under restoration.

### Greece

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* Hellenic IT Museum, in Athens[31]

### Ireland

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* Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland, National University of Ireland[32]

### Italy

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* 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[33]
* All About Apple Museum, Savona[34]
* Piedmontese Museum of Informatics, Turin[35]
* VIGAMUS, Rome \- Video Game Museum
* Tecnologic@mente, Ivrea
* Museo degli strumenti per il calcolo, Pisa

### Lithuania

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* Retrobytes cafe - vintage computers gallery, Kaunas[36]

### The Netherlands

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* Bonami SpelComputer Museum, Zwolle[37]
* Computer Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam[38]
* Computermuseum Hack42, Arnhem[39]
* HomeComputerMuseum, Helmond[40]
* Rotterdams Radio Museum, Rotterdam[41]

### Poland

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* Muzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki, Katowice[42]
* Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery (Muzeum Gier), Wrocław[43]
* Apple Muzeum Polska, Piaseczno[44]

### Portugal

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* 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

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* Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, Moscow
* Yandex Museum, Moscow
* Yandex Museum, Saint-Petersburg
* Moscow Apple Museum
* Antimuseum of Computers and Games, Yekaterinburg

### Slovenia

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* Computer History Museum Slovenia, Ljubljana

### Slovakia

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* Computer Museum SAV, Bratislava

### Spain

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* Computer Museum Garcia Santesmases (MIGS), Complutense University[45]
* Museum of Informatics, Polytechnic University of Valencia[46]
* Museo de la Historia de la Computacion, Cáceres

### Sweden

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* Dalby Datormuseum, Dalby on the island Aspö north of Strängnäs

### Switzerland

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* Musée Bolo, Lausanne
* Enter Museum, Solothurn

### Ukraine

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* Software & Computer Museum, Kyiv, Kharkiv

### United Kingdom

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* Northwest Computer Museum, Leigh, Greater Manchester[47]
* The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park
* The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge
* Retro Computer Museum, Leicester[48]
* Science Museum, London, London
* National Archive for the History of Computing, University of Manchester[49]
* National Videogame Arcade, Nottingham
* The Computing Futures Museum, Staffordshire University \- In association with the BCS[50]
* Museum of Computing, Swindon
* Time Line Computer Archive, Wigton[51]
* The Micro Museum, Ramsgate[52]
* Home Computer Museum, Hull[53]
* IBM Hursley Museum, Hursley[54]
* Derby Computer Museum[55]
* The ICL Computer Museum[56]

See also: Computer Conservation Society[57]

## North America

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### Canada

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#### Ontario

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* Personal Computer Museum, Brantford
* University of Waterloo Computer Museum, Waterloo, Ontario[58]
* York University Computer Museum or YUCoM, York University[59]

#### Quebec

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* EMusée, Montreal[60]
* iMusée, Montreal[61]

#### Saskatchewan

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* University of Saskatchewan Computer Museum[62]

### United States

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#### Arizona

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* Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation, Glendale, Arizona[63]

#### California

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* 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.

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* Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.

#### Georgia

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* Computer Museum of America, Roswell, Georgia
* Museum of Technology at Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia[64]

#### Kansas

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* The Topeka Computing Museum, Topeka, Kansas \- Now being liquidated, online archive only.[65]

#### Maryland

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* System Source Computer Museum, Hunt Valley, Maryland[66]

#### Minnesota

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* Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

#### Montana

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* American Computer & Robotics Museum, Bozeman, Montana

#### New Jersey

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* Vintage Computer Federation Museum, Wall, New Jersey[67]

#### New York

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* The Strong, International Center for the History of Electronic Games, Rochester, NY \- Focus on Retrogaming but many games are on vintage personal computers.

#### Pennsylvania

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* Kennett Classic Computer Museum,[68] Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
* Large Scale Systems Museum,[69] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* Pennsylvania Computer Museum,[70] Parkesburg, Pennsylvania

#### Rhode Island

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* Rhode Island Computer Museum, Warwick, Rhode Island

#### Texas

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* National Videogame Museum, Frisco, Texas[71]

#### Virginia

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* U.Va. Computer Museum, University of Virginia[72]
* Virginia Computer Museum[73]

#### Washington

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* Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Seattle, Washington
* Microsoft Visitor Center, Redmond, Washington

#### Wisconsin

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* Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin[74] \- Exhibit offering "Seymour Cray and The Supercomputer"

## South America

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### Argentina

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* Espacio TEC,[75] 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

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* Museu Capixaba do Computador, Vitória/ES
* Museu do Computador, São Paulo/SP

## Online

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* The ICL Computer Museum[76] (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[77] \- Now a part of the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, Montana.

## See also

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* Computer museum
* List of video game museums

## References

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1. ^ "The Israeli Personal Computer Museum Page".
2. ^ IPSJ Computer Museum and its satellite museums
3. ^ KCG Computer Meseum
4. ^ Museum of Science, TUC
5. ^ "Australian Computer Museum Society".
6. ^ "TheNostalgiaBox". thenostalgiabox.com.au. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
7. ^ "Monash Museum of Computing History".
8. ^ "Techvana - Technology Nirvana - The New Zealand Computer Museum". Techvana - The New Zealand Computer Museum. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
9. ^ "Techvana". Tall Poppies. 41 (1): 8–9. March 2016 - via National Library of New Zealand.
10. ^ "Computer Museum NAM-IP". Computer Museum NAM-IP.
11. ^ "PEEK&POKE Muzej Računala - Computer Museum". www.peekpoke.hr.
12. ^ "Dansk Datahistorisk Forening | Dataarkæologerne" (in Danish). Retrieved 2022-12-26.
13. ^ "Media Museum Rupriikki - Museokeskus Vapriikki". 30 August 2023.
14. ^ "The Finnish Museum of Games - Museokeskus Vapriikki".
15. ^ "Association Pour un Conservatoire de l'informatique et de la télématique".
16. ^ "Association MO5.com".
17. ^ "Fédération des équipes Bull".
18. ^ "Musée des Arts et Métiers".
19. ^ "Musée de l'imprimerie".
20. ^ "AMISA".
21. ^ "INRIA".
22. ^ "Silicium".
23. ^ "[BINARIUM. Deutsches Museum der digitalen Kultur]". www.binarium.de.
24. ^ KG, HDNET GmbH & Co. "HNF - Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum - The world´s biggest computer museum in Paderborn". www.hnf.de.
25. ^ Krause, Klemens. "Computermuseum of the faculty of computer sciences". computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
26. ^ "Man from Munich gives City of Vilshofen a Computer Museum".
27. ^ "Computeum is taking shape".
28. ^ "The Computeum, One Of The Biggest Computer Museums in Germany". Hackaday. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
29. ^ Computerarchiv Muenchen : süddeutsches Museum für digitale Entwicklungsgeschichte. C. Habermueller. 2019. `{{cite book}}`: `|website=` ignored (help)
30. ^ "Analog Computer Museum". analogmuseum.org.
31. ^ "The Hellenic IT Museum home page".
32. ^ "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.
33. ^ "FWT UNESCO Computer Museum Home Page". musi.fwtunesco.org.
34. ^ "All About Apple Museum - The alive Apple Museum in Italy". All About Apple.
35. ^ "Museo piemontese dell'informatica".
36. ^ "RETROBYTES (CAFE - VINTAGE COMPUTERS GALLERY)".
37. ^ "Bonami Spelcomputer Museum". computermuseum.nl.
38. ^ "UvA Computermuseum". ub.fnwi.uva.nl.
39. ^ "Computermuseum Hack42". museum.hack42.nl.
40. ^ "HomeComputerMuseum". www.homecomputermuseum.nl.
41. ^ "Rotterdams Radio Museum". rotterdamsradiomuseum.nl.
42. ^ "Muzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki Home Page". www.muzeumkomputerow.edu.pl.
43. ^ "Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery Home Page". www.gikme.pl. 26 March 2019.
44. ^ "Apple Muzeum Polska". www.applemuzeumpolska.pl/.
45. ^ "Complutense University of Madrid". www.ucm.es.
46. ^ "Museum of Informatics". www.upv.es.
47. ^ "North West Computer Museum". www.nwcomputermuseum.org.uk.
48. ^ "The Retro Computer Museum". www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk.
49. ^ "Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine". Archived from the original on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
50. ^ "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.
51. ^ "Time Line Computer Archive". t-lcarchive.org.
52. ^ "The Micro Museum - Computer Museum - Ramsgate Kent UK". The Micro Museum - Computer Museum - Ramsgate Kent UK.
53. ^ "Home Computer Museum - Hull, Humberside UK". www.homecomputermuseum.co.uk.
54. ^ "IBM Hursley Museum Park". slx-online.biz/hursley/index.asp.
55. ^ "Derby Computer Museum". www.derbycomputermuseum.co.uk.
56. ^ "The ICL Computer Museum". vintage-icl-computers.com.
57. ^ "UK Computer Museums". UK: Computer Conservation Society. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
58. ^ "University of Waterloo Computer Museum | University of Waterloo". uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
59. ^ "YUCoM york university computer museum | York University". museum.eecs.yorku.ca. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
60. ^ "PCmuseum - Personal computer history and collection of pc's". emusee.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
61. ^ http://imusee.net/. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
62. ^ "University of Saskatchewan Computer Museum - UofS Computer Museum | University of Saskatchewan". computermuseum.usask.ca. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
63. ^ "Southwest Museum Of Engineering, Communications and Computation -Arizona's Radio and Television Museum - Also History Of Computers andComputation (SMECC)". www.smecc.org.
64. ^ "Museum of Technology: Middle Georgia State University". www.mga.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
65. ^ "The Topeka Computing Museum". www.gateman.com.
66. ^ "The System Source Computer Museum".
67. ^ "Museum Info - Vintage Computer Federation". Retrieved 21 February 2024.
68. ^ "Kennett Classic". Retrieved 21 February 2024.
69. ^ "Large Scale Systems Museum". Retrieved 21 February 2024.
70. ^ "The Computer Church". Retrieved 21 February 2024.
71. ^ "National Videogame Museum". www.nvmusa.org. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
72. ^ "The U.Va. Computer Museum". www.cs.virginia.edu. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
73. ^ "Virginia Computer Museum".
74. ^ "Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology". www.cfmit.org. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
75. ^ "Espacio TEC - Museo de Informática". 19 August 2022.
76. ^ "www.vintage-icl-computers.com". www.vintage-icl-computers.com. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
77. ^ "The Vintage Mac Museum » Say Hello Again". Retrieved 2023-10-07.