List of computer museums

Below is a list of computer museums around the world, organized by continent and country, then alphabetically by location.

Asia

Russia

• Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, Moscow

South Korea

• Nexon Computer Museum

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

• Peek&Poke, Rijeka^[4]

Finland

• Ruprikki Media Museum, Tampere^[5]

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

• Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland, National University of Ireland^[9]

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

• Computer Museum Garcia Santesmases (MIGS), Complutense University^[13]

Switzerland

• Musée Bolo, Lausanne

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.

Online

• Old Computer Museum -
• 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

• Computer museum
• List of video game museums

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