Computer Museum - European Museums

European Museums

• Retro Computer Museum (Leicestershire, England) – Regular open days and hands-on events.
• ComputerMuseum–Muenchen (Muenchen, Germany) – With a division for Seymour Cray/CDC/Cray Research
• FWT UNESCO Computer Museum (Padova, Italy)
• Heinz Nixdorf Museum (Paderborn, Germany) – Claims to be the largest.
• House for the History of IBM Data Processing (Sindelfingen, Germany) – To be closed in summer 2012 due to divestment of the building by IBM
• Museum of Computing (Swindon, UK)
• Musée Bolo, Switzerland
• The Centre for Computing History (Haverhill, Suffolk, UK)
• The Jim Austin Computer Collection (York, England) – A private collection that can be visited by appointment.
• The National Museum of Computing (Bletchley Park, England) – A publicly open museum that conserves and exhibits equipment associated with British computer history, with a particular emphasis on running machines.
• The technikum29 museum (nr. Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) – A small museum of computer and communications technology that specializes in maintaining and demonstrating equipment in fully working order.
• The UK National Archive for the History of Computing (Manchester, England) – Concentrates on the preservation of historical documents related to computing, rather than on the computers themselves.
• Universiteit van Amsterdam – Computer Museum (The Netherlands)