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Museums are exhibitions of machines whether online or offline - but are different from collections.Museums can be distinguished by the following traits -- structured website into categories- 80% of content is related to historical computing- obvious direction in contentExamples of what is a Museum and what is not -IS -A website describing the history of Sinclair, listing all makes and models.A website describing computing history, showing several prevalent machines in an era.IS NOT -A website about Fred and how he liked his Commodore 64.A website about a 286 and an Atari 2600.



Silicium - A French organization which collects old computers, repairs them and then regularly organizes exhibitions.
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Computer History Museum - Focuses exclusively on the history of computing. Includes hours and directions. Located in Mountain View, California.
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The Museum of Contemporary Computers - A University of York collection of over 100 computers ranging from minis to supercomputers.
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The Vintage Computer Club Malta - Dedicated to old equipment. History, collection, news, trades, and forum.
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Nostalgia Museum - Aims to preserve the culture of computers and consoles that for market reasons have become obsolete.
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The Computer Museum of America - San Diego museum whose mission is to preserve the major milestones in the development of the computer industry and to chronicle these milestones for the enrichment and education of all.
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The Computer Hall of Fame - Honors major achievements in the computer industry.
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The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) - Links to on-line resources concerning the history of computing around the world, including pioneers of the field such as Alan Turing.
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The As-Yet-Unnamed PC Museum - Collection of Personal Computers, including several rarities and prototypes. Specialising in Atari, Apple, Commodore & Microbee.
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The Secret Weapons of Commodore - Prototype and rarities of the CBM / Commodore lines of machines. Informative chronological site on all things Commodore.
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The Home Computer Museum (HCM) - Extensive personal collection of most European and International Home Computers complete with excellent photography.
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Computer Museum .it - Based on a personal collection of computers, with an archive of 1000 tech tables, old computer advertisements and history pages.
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The Topeka Computing Museum - Includes exhibit information and photos.
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DigiBarn Computer Museum - Traces the history of the evolution of personal computing and the graphical user interface.
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Old-Computers - An on-line museum with photographs, articles, and a collectors club with a forum and chat.
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American University Computing History Museum - Promotes awareness of the history of computing, supports research in the historiography of computing, provides support to teachers and houses a collection of computer artifacts. Features a virtual tour, history, syllabus, lectures, student projects and bibliography.
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Rhode Island Computer Museum - A site devoted to computer preservation and education.
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The Machine Room - Many classic home and business computers from the 1970s and 1980s, including pictures, descriptions, technical details and links to other sources of information.
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Computer Museum @ Bletchley Park - Hands on exhibition of computing technology from Colossus to the present day on the site where the first computers were used to break the enigma code, Bletchley Park
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Doug Coward's Analog Computer Museum - An on-line museum of analog computing devices.
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The Obsolete Computer Museum - Visit my collection of personal computers from 1976 to the present. On display is Apple II, IIe, Apple III, Mac SE/30, Mac Classic II and TRS-80 to name a few. Also the homebrew EDCAM.
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The MSX Museum Box - More than 175 pictures of different MSX computer systems (with descriptions)manufactured between 1983 and 1991.
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Pelikonepeijoonit - The Arctic Computer and Console Museum
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Peters Vintage Computer Collection - From the Commodore Pet 2001 to the Apple iMac.
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Personal Collection of Jetze Mellema - Collection of old home computers: Atari, MSX, Commodore, Sinclair and many others.
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Wave Report: Computer History Museum - Over one thousand photographs taken at the Californian institution.
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American Computer Museum - Computer history and information age exhibits. Photographs of some of the current collections, including personal computers, calculators, the first minicomputer (which weighed 250 lbs), and the influence of the information age on the expansion of the West.
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The First Computer Museum of Nova Scotia, Canada - A walk-in computer museum in eastern Canada includes a collection of vintage microcomputers, video games and robots.
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University of Virginia's Computer Museum - Contains various computer-related artifacts, both historical and modern, with photographs and descriptions.
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Atari History Museum - Information, images and personal stories on all items produced by Atari.
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Houston Computer Museum - Will be open to the public six days a week starting sometime in the next 18 months. Includes contact information.
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CPU Museu - The Corsican Intel CPU Museum - Intends to collect samples of all Intel CPUs since 1971. Site shows images and specifications of each item.
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