I'm not specifically recommending them as I haven't been (and I often find museum exhibitions lacklustre) but these are on my list to check out next time I'm in the UK in the appropriate areas:
Reading was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s centre in the UK. While it was an American company they had a huge estate here. I have a soft spot for their machines so I'm curious to see what this small museum managed to pull together - I know they reached out in some of the relevant Facebook groups for personal stories of DEC and their machines:
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/reading%E2%80%99s-...
theGeatZhopa 1 days ago [-]
I wanted to tell you about computer museums in Germany, but then I've found a list of computer museums of the world at wikipedia:
In Germany we've quite a few more or less good equiped museums.. The one in Stuttgart, South of Germany, is located at the University and is quite interesting. May be the upper List will be of good inspiration for you!
digikata 2 hours ago [-]
The Video Game Museum is a smaller museum in Berlin https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/, but it has a lot of fun early history personal gaming equipment, with playable units. And including a lot of euro gaming and (at the time of my visit) running demoscene items I knew little to nothing about.
theGeatZhopa 1 hours ago [-]
especially the demos are (over-all) astonishing! I still remember the cracks made by phrozen crew and razor 1911 in the '90ties. They incorporated demos into their cracks of a few dozen Kb - that was awesome! What an audiovisual experience! That was my first time I heard about the demoscene :)
laurieg 1 days ago [-]
The National Museum of Computing (next to but completely separate from Bletchly Park) is fantastic.
Definitely book a tour if you go. Speaking to the volunteers about how they used the machines on display is a fantastic way to experience part of the living history of computing.
rahimnathwani 6 hours ago [-]
The (paid) PowerUp exhibit at the Science Museum in London:
Not sure why this has been downvoted. This place is excellent and you won't be disappointed. Not far from Cambridge and Bletchley park in American terms.
rlupi 14 hours ago [-]
In Switzerland, I recommend enter.ch. It has an extensive collection of consumer electronics, computing devices, and proper computers.
It reminds me of the computing museum near Google main campus in Mountain View, California.
And from a more local angle & purely for a lovely day out, may I recommend a trip to Cork City and a wander through George Boole’s old stomping ground in UCC.
Enjoy reconnecting!
decide1000 23 hours ago [-]
HomeComputerMuseum, Helmond (Netherlands) is a very very very good one. They have hundreds of historical pieces, some very unique, WHICH YOU CAN PLAY WITH!
sloaken 1 days ago [-]
Bletchley park is great. Consider it a full day.
Cambridge has a bunch of computer stuff. I think Raspberry Pi started there.
leo_dard 1 days ago [-]
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Manchester is where the important early computer development in the UK occurred; Turing spent a lot of time working with the Manchester Baby: https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/meet-ba...
Reading was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s centre in the UK. While it was an American company they had a huge estate here. I have a soft spot for their machines so I'm curious to see what this small museum managed to pull together - I know they reached out in some of the relevant Facebook groups for personal stories of DEC and their machines: https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/reading%E2%80%99s-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_museums
In Germany we've quite a few more or less good equiped museums.. The one in Stuttgart, South of Germany, is located at the University and is quite interesting. May be the upper List will be of good inspiration for you!
Definitely book a tour if you go. Speaking to the volunteers about how they used the machines on display is a fantastic way to experience part of the living history of computing.
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/power
It reminds me of the computing museum near Google main campus in Mountain View, California.
And from a more local angle & purely for a lovely day out, may I recommend a trip to Cork City and a wander through George Boole’s old stomping ground in UCC.
Enjoy reconnecting!
Cambridge has a bunch of computer stuff. I think Raspberry Pi started there.