The Museum is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. Its collection comprises over 13,000 objects, 20,000 images, 5,000 moving images, 4,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and 5,000 titles or several hundred gigabytes of software.

The Computer History Museum was established in California in 1996 and is now located in Mountain View, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Formerly known as The Computer Museum History Center (a division of The Computer Museum, Boston), the Computer History Museum became a fully independent, public benefit 501(c)(3) organization in July of 1999.

Efforts are well underway to create a worthy home in Silicon Valley. In October 2002, the Museum acquired a landmark building at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd in Mountain View, CA, and opened its first phase to the public in June 2003. Future plans include full museum exhibits, a Timeline of Computing History exhibit made possible by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a Semiconductor History Website funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

The Museum currently offers online exhibitions on a variety of topics related to the history of computing. You can also visit the Museum to experience computing history in person. Exhibits featuring highlights from the Museum's collection are currently on display in the Museum's Visible Storage area, which is not a complete exhibition but an accessible subset of its warehoused collection.

In the future, the Museum will tell the amazing story of the computing revolution with even more exhibits, including theme galleries focused on semiconductor technologies and computing disciplines such as software, networking and storage.

contact the museum

Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043

Tel: 650-810-1010
Fax: 650-810-1055
info@computerhistory.org

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