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The National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution has a Computer History Collection, Information Age, on its first floor. It centers on the technical evolution of electrical and electronic information technology. The display has over 900 original artifacts. They include Samuel Morse's telegraphs, Alexander Bell's telephones, a Hollerith punched card machine, a 4-rotor German ENIGMA encoder used during World War II, the ENIAC computer, the TELESTAR test satellite, an automotive welding robot, a selection of early personal computers, and digital high definition television.

14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 202-357-2700 http://americanhistory.si.edu

The Charles Babbage Institute is a historical research center and archives dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and its impact on society. CBI preserves relevant historical documentation and conducts and fosters research. The CBI archives program preserves primary source materials relating to the history of information technology. The collection consists of corporate records, manuscript materials, records of professional associations, oral history interviews, trade publications, periodicals, obsolete manuals and product literature, photographs, films, videos, and reference materials.

222 - 21st Avenue South, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, 612 624.5050, http://www.cbi.umn.edu

American Computer Museum appeal from the beginner through the expert in computing. It has a comprehensive assortment of antique office appliance, mainframe computers and peripherals, and scores of personal computers - all presented in a timeline fashion. Located 90 miles north of Yellowstone National Park in beautiful downtown Bozeman, Montana, the museum draws thousands of visitors from all 50 states and over 50 countries.

(406) 587-7545, americancomputermuseum@computer.org

The Computer Museum History Center is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest collections ofcomputing artifacts in the world, a collection comprising over 3,000 artifacts, 2,000 films and videotapes, 5,000 photographs, 2,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and gigabytes of software. The collection is housed in a visible storage building in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Building T-12A, Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, CA 94035, +1 650 604 2579 info@computerhistory.org

In 1999, the Computer Museum closed to the public and joined forces with the Museum of Science, Boston. With the integration of several Computer Museum exhibits and programs, the Museum of Science greatly accelerated the enhancement of computing and other new technologiesthroughout the institution. It has opened two Computer Museum exhibits at Science Park, an upgraded Virtual FishTank and The Best Software for Kids Gallery, now part of an expanded Cahners ComputerPlace.

http://www.mos.org/tcm/tcm.html

The Computer Museum of America maintains storage facilities throughout San Diego County as it accumulated one of the world's largest collections of historic computing equipment.

640 C Street, San Diego, 619-235-8222 , dweil@computer-museum.org

MIT Museum presents exhibitions and programs that explore the foundations and frontiers of science and technology. The museum provides a window on the research being done behind laboratory doors at MIT and gives visitors the opportunity to investigate technological innovation.

265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA, http://web.mit.edu/museum

The Computer Science Museum is an effort by the UC Davis Computer Science Club, a chapter of the ACM, to help preserve the history of computing. Focusing primarily on personal computers, the museum contains artifacts and relics from years past.

http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/homepage.html

At the Intel Museum in Santa Clara, you can experience the power of computer chips first hand, and the evolution of their development. Explore the pages of the site and interact with our Web movies to learn more about the museum and computer chips.

2200 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA, 95052-8119, (408) 765-0503, museum@intel.com

The Greater Pittsburg Vintage Computer Museum contains Randolph Byrnes's personal collection of Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM and Tandy computers, as well as peripherals and softwares.

http://myoldcomputers.com

At the National Cryptologic Museum, visitors can glimpse some of the dramatic moments in the history of American cryptology. The people who devoted their lives to cryptology and national defense, the machines they built, the techniques they used, and the places where they worked are displayed.

http://www.nsa.gov/museum/

The Bradbury Science Museum is a component of Los Alamos National Laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of California. Its primary mission is to interpret Laboratory research, activities, and history to official visitors, the general public, and Laboratory employees andto promote greater public understanding of the Laboratory's role in national security programs. Over 40 high-tech interactive exhibits within five galleries explain the Laboratory's defense, technology, and basic research projects, as well as the history of the Manhattan Project.

15th and Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico, (505) 667-4444, http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/museum/index.shtml