NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COMPUTING

At the National Museum of Computing you will find about the history of computers and the most important invention of the 20th century. The museum is one of the most informative and interesting tourist places to visit in Milton Keynes, where you’d find the old and large computing systems in a working state.

National Museum of Computing is one of the unique infotainment places to visit in Milton Keynes which is dedicated to collect and restore historic computer systems. The unique museum was opened in 2007, where you get to observe the development stage of computers, right from the 1950s to 2000s. The block- H of the museum was the first one to be built as the computer centre in the world that houses six Colossus Computers, the first set of computers developed by British codebreakers between 1943-1945.

This museum is also recognised as England's top 100 ‘irreplaceable places’ and keeps arranging corporate and educational visits for its visitors. The museum has put on display the Colossus Mark 2 computer, the Harwell Dekatron/WITCH which is the world’s oldest working digital computer and the Macaroni Transistorised Automatic Computer ( T.A.C.) among others. The museum also hosts various workshops, learning programs, group activities and virtual visits for its guests.

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Highlights

• Visit the world's largest collection of working historic computers at the National Museum of Computing.
• Go on a public guided tour at the National Museum of Computing which would make you aware of the evolution of Computing and extraordinary artefacts from the collection of the museum.
• The museum also organises Kids Programme to inculcate an interest in computers and teach them about the diverse learning opportunities in the fields of STEM.
• Don’t miss out on any of the iconic galleries arranged in the museum like Turing-Welchman Bombe, First generation computers, Large Systems, Software, Personal computers and many such others.
• Be the part of some interesting events like the National Video Game Day where the participants get to play recent and retro games.