Computer Museums List

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Hi all!
I’m a volunteer at the Computer Museum of Camburzano (Italy, inside Biella province), I think the biggest european computer museum. We’ve 13000+ catalogued items subvidived on 7000+ different computers, calculators, networking, softwares and other categories.

I often have troubles in founding data of rare objects. I think would be useful for all us having a list of museums worldwide, either visitable and only online ones.

I’ll add in next days a link list, for now I put Camburzano’s museum link:
www.museodelcomputer.org

It’s in italian, but with today’s browser should not be a problem the online translation.

I suggest to visit catalogue letter “G”, General Electric company. You’ll see a truly unique system we saved in 2017…

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Of course I strongly ask your help.
We can make a very complete list and who knows, perhaps will follow also some collaboration :wink:

I dream a worlwide computer museum network.

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Back in the days of G+, Fabrice (@drealmer) started and maintained a Google Map showing very many computer museums. See here

It looks like this:

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or this:

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You can zoom and click to find each museum’s information. But I think only Fabrice can modify the map.

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Hi folks, sorry for being away for so long. If anyone has suggestions on this to add to that map, please let me know and I’ll update it. Thanks for the ping, Ed.

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It’s a really great venue I’ll definitely visit, I hope there’s a convenient route from Milano via public transports.

By the museum site yields a SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN certificate warning.

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I can confirm this, Firefox doesn’t let me see the site without jumping through a few security exception hoops. Please check the certificate.

(It seems, the certificate is for another domain, apparently a CDN of the hosting provider. With services like Let’s Encrypt, it should be pretty easy to obtain a valid certificate for free. Many hosting providers offer a free-of-cost solution for this.)

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In Argentina we have “Espacio TEC” museum https://espaciotec.com.ar/ here is the point in the map https://maps.app.goo.gl/CmyDsmUHVRvTw9Wx6

In fact this week we will have the Argentine Symposium of History, Technologies and Informatics and the Symposium on the History of Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean (SAHTI and SHIALC acronyms from its Spanish meaning SAHTI - SHIALC - 53 JAIIO) where the last day will be held at the museum. :smile:

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Here’s the one from the head post - thanks, and good to see you here!

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Added, thanks!
And happy to this community thriving :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the info. I tell to IT people

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Thank you for adding!

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@drealmer can you give us the map URL?
Is the mapped museums list avalaible in a webpage or other easy surfable way?

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I question are the links valid. Computer Museums seem to come and go faster than new spam.

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Very few museums. 2 in the Netherlands, 3 in North-Rhine Westphalia (Germany). Almost all are universities or well known museums (Heinz Nixdorf). And these are valid. 8 more in Germany, incl. 2 in Berlin (thereof one for games).
But I wonder who needs that map with that few museums?
One has to check for opening times+holiday anyway.

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There may be more computer museums and collections than it seems, such as Ctrl+Alt Museum in Pavia, Italy, and the Computer History Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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many “online museums” in truth are private collections. and they appear and disappear easily.

@ all: I’ve also checked about SSL issues: our site doesn’t use SSL so this is the reason of error

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Yes there are many Online museums, but usually you can’t visit them.
But I think there are much more museums.
Maybe clubs or from communes or from individuals but not just online. Or temporary expositions.

Personally, I don’t like museums and currently I won’t travel (far).

Some larger museums have virtual tours.

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Some/many web browsers have an option to default to HTTPS (e.g., I’m using such a setup), in which case this seems to (a) provide the usual view of the website (good!) and (b) to default to a general certificate of the provider (a critical mismatch).