The coolest IT museums in the world. Part 1
Riding around the world while on vacation, an IT person will always find something to do when he gets tired of lying on the beach or seeing local sights. In the end, there are clubs and bars ... But the heart somehow wants special joys, and the brain wants its own, warm tube impressions. Okay Google, we will free you from tedious surfing on the Internet in search of exciting IT expositions that will delight you and most likely fill you with new knowledge. Go.
Where: Russia, Moscow , Novaya Square, 3-4 (the main building is closed for renovation until 2018; for temporary addresses, see the website).
Website: www.polymus.ru
Phone: +7 (495) 730-54-38
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The largest scientific and technical museum, where you can substantively see the evolution of the technical thought of Russia and the world. In addition to the main collections of exhibits and tours of them, visitors are invited to listen to lectures, participate in scientific discussions and even creative experiments.
The most interesting for the geek will be the hall about computing technology, to which the company Intel has a hand - everything is there, from calculating pebbles to modern processors. The exposition “Open funds” also appeared, where you can see old exhibits of the Polytechnic Museum through the eyes of museum curators.
Open funds of the Polytech
Where: Russia, Moscow , Pestovsky Pereulok, Building 16, Building 2
Website: www.apple-museum.ru
Phone: +7 (915) 123-35-27
Here you can independently gaze and feel, and you can book a one and a half hour group tour , 40 minutes from which you will be told and shown, and the rest of the time will be spent on trying out the technique at work. In addition to the cognitive component, there is also a practical one: there is a kind of service center in which you can, for example, repair or assemble a Macintosh 1984 - 1997 release or rewrite electronic information from obsolete media to modern ones.
Join the beautiful
Some of the exhibits can be viewed on Instagram using the hash tag # of museum equipmentapple :
Where: Russia, Yekaterinburg , st. Rosa Luxemburg, 9/11
Website: www.uole-museum.ru
Phone: +7 (343) 371-50-60
Museum-branch of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. Exposure: radio spark period, tube; first televisions, phonographs; legendary military radio stations and headset; receivers of pre-transistor and transistor era; Rumkorf coil sparks and Tesla's transformer artificial lightning.
Excursions for small groups or one person of different ages on the topics: "Development of communication facilities", "History of sound recording", "Prerequisites, formation and development of wave theory and practice" and a lot of others. During all the excursions the work of the apparatus is demonstrated.
Telegraph, 19th century.
Where: Moscow (st. Kuznetsky Most, 12) | St. Petersburg (Konyushennaya Square, 2, letter B) | Kazan (Kremlin street, 21)
Website: www.15kop.ru
Or even like this: “Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines”. The exposition contains amazing units where you can play by purchasing a special token or a 15-kopeck coin from 1975 to 1992, depending on the model of the device. The 450R ticket includes a game on 15 slots (one or two) and a plague tour . And you can also order slot machines for the event or just go home! There is even a machine with soda water.
Soviet arcade cars
Where: Russia, Moscow , the territory of the innovation center Skolkovo, ul. Meadow, 4
Website: www.sk.ru
Phone : +7 (495) 956-00-33
South Gate "Skolkovo"
Our everything, science city, Russian silicon valley and modern scientific and technological innovation complex for the development and commercialization of new technologies. You don't even know what to write here. Residential quarters and contests with millions of prize pools, mind-blowing lectures of mega-brains from all over the world and training at the International Gymnasium, renting an office in the largest technopark of Europe and Startup Village with business angels from Formula 1. Here, to put it mildly, there is something to see, and what will happen is difficult to imagine.
And so it will be
Where: Germany, Paderborn , FĂĽrstenallee 7, 33102 Paderborn
Website: www.hnf.de
Phone : + 49-5251-306-600
Here is the present and the future of information technology. Thematic expositions for all or only for specialists, the history of computing technology, the world of codes and numbers, incredible programs for children, the history of communication from antiquity to our days ... 6,000 m 2 of exhibition space and lectures, seminars, conferences over 5000 years of information technology history. You can buy a ticket for adults, for children, for pensioners, family, annual subscription, damn stupa, salad in a cafe and something else in the museum shop.
Sculpture illustrating Moore's Law
Where: Germany, Munich , Museumsinsel 1, 80538 MĂĽnchen
Website: www.deutsches-museum.de
Telephone : +49 (0) 89 2179-1
The world's largest museum of natural science and technology. Locals call it simply: German Museum. Here the question does not arise: “what’s a museum?”, Because it is obvious that if the Russian Museum is the arts and all humanitarian, and if the German Museum is, of course, technology. And any: from transport to musical instruments, from materials to energy technologies.
Exposure of power engines
Where: Germany, Berlin , Karl-Marx-Allee 93a, 10243 Berlin
Website: www.computerspielemuseum.de
Telephone : +49 30 6098 8577
Sixty-year history of the evolution of computer games: from elementary consoles to the virtual world with the effect of presence. Here is collected and constantly updated the largest collection of gaming equipment and computer games in Europe. The exposition is divided into three parts: the history and background of computer games; plot and graphics; music and hardware requirements. As well as a section on gaming addiction and thousands of magazines on the history of games, design and development. There are audio guides in Russian!
Where: France, Paris , La DĂ©fense, 25 Allee Pierre Ziller
Website: www.museeinformatique.fr
Telephone : +33 (0) 1 8087 6251
The museum is located in the business district of La Défense, “Parisian Manhattan”, in the building of the business card of the district - the Great Arch . Proud of preserving memorial objects since 1942: the world's first Micral calculator, one and a half ton Cray supercomputer for $ 15 million, a vacuum tube of 1908 and 200 more exhibits over 400m 2 .
Where: Italy, Parma , Parco Area delle Scienze 53 / a - 43124 Parma
Website: wwww.museo.dmi.unipr.it
Telephone : +39 0521 906929
The museum is small but interesting. Works as part of the University of Parma museum system . Here, permanent exhibitions can be visited by prior appointment through a museum representative museo@dmi.unipr.it .
Where: Poland, Katowice , 40-061 Katowice, pl. Oddziałów Młodzieży Powstańczej, 1
Website: www.muzeumkomputerow.edu.pl
Phone : +32 4130890
Here you can meet such dinosaurs, that neither in a fairy tale to say, nor with a pen describe. Sometimes right at the entrance to the museum at the time of their delivery. You can even try to write music on bbc micro via the umi midi interface, as did Depeche Mode at the dawn of his career in the 80s. Lectures and master classes are attached.
Where: Belgium, Brussels, Avenue du Bourget 20 (Bourgetlaan 20), B-1130 Brussels
Website: www.unisys.be
Telephone : +32 (2) 728 05 27
Small, but officially recognized by the world technical museum of the computer company Unisys . Founded by former company employee Jacques Laffut. Guided tours by appointment.
Where: USA, California , Santa Clara (2200 Mission College Boulevard)
Website: www.intel.com
Phone : +1 408-765-5050
Intel Actually, that says it all. Awesome exposure, excursions that listen with an open mouth, a unique design of the premises. Here you just have to be any geek.
Where: USA, California , Mountain View (1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043)
Website: www.computerhistory.org
Phone : +1 (650) 810-1010
Another impressive museum in California. Here it is believed that the history of the computer is 2,000 years old. Therefore, expositions and exhibitions tell about mysterious ancient devices, about future technologies, about the development and amazing breakthroughs of gadgets, about dramas of computer gurus and whole companies and about thousands of things. In particular, there is an exhibition dedicated to one of the progenitors of the computer, mathematics, Charles Babbage , who created a universal computing device difference machine .
Where: USA, Washington , Redmond , 15010 NE 36th Street, Microsoft Campus, Building 92, Redmond, WA 98052
Website: www.microsoft.com
Phone : +1 (425) 703-6214
Here, too, everything is clear. Add only that in this center you can buy a lot of teaching materials for students and teachers.
Where: USA, California , San Jose (201 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113).
Website: www.thetech.org
Phone : +1 408-294-8324
Unusually interesting expositions and excursions! The funny thing is that by the barcode on the tickets you can do different things at different stands. For example, make the robot draw your portrait. Here it is.
Where: USA, Texas , Frisco , 8004 N. Dallas Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75034
Website: www.vghmuseum.org
Phone : +1 (972)668-5180
The collection of this museum is huge. Here you can see the prototypes of well-known consoles, rare arcade machines and a lot of accessories for gamers. The museum is located in the Frisco Discovery Center .
This article was mainly museums. And in the next part, in addition to museums, you will see visits to research laboratories and centers, famous electronic markets, visits to game developers and a couple of surprises.
Polytechnical Museum
Where: Russia, Moscow , Novaya Square, 3-4 (the main building is closed for renovation until 2018; for temporary addresses, see the website).
Website: www.polymus.ru
Phone: +7 (495) 730-54-38
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The largest scientific and technical museum, where you can substantively see the evolution of the technical thought of Russia and the world. In addition to the main collections of exhibits and tours of them, visitors are invited to listen to lectures, participate in scientific discussions and even creative experiments.
The most interesting for the geek will be the hall about computing technology, to which the company Intel has a hand - everything is there, from calculating pebbles to modern processors. The exposition “Open funds” also appeared, where you can see old exhibits of the Polytechnic Museum through the eyes of museum curators.
Open funds of the Polytech
Apple Technology Museum
Where: Russia, Moscow , Pestovsky Pereulok, Building 16, Building 2
Website: www.apple-museum.ru
Phone: +7 (915) 123-35-27
Here you can independently gaze and feel, and you can book a one and a half hour group tour , 40 minutes from which you will be told and shown, and the rest of the time will be spent on trying out the technique at work. In addition to the cognitive component, there is also a practical one: there is a kind of service center in which you can, for example, repair or assemble a Macintosh 1984 - 1997 release or rewrite electronic information from obsolete media to modern ones.
Join the beautiful
Some of the exhibits can be viewed on Instagram using the hash tag # of museum equipmentapple :
Radio Museum them. Popova
Where: Russia, Yekaterinburg , st. Rosa Luxemburg, 9/11
Website: www.uole-museum.ru
Phone: +7 (343) 371-50-60
Museum-branch of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. Exposure: radio spark period, tube; first televisions, phonographs; legendary military radio stations and headset; receivers of pre-transistor and transistor era; Rumkorf coil sparks and Tesla's transformer artificial lightning.
Excursions for small groups or one person of different ages on the topics: "Development of communication facilities", "History of sound recording", "Prerequisites, formation and development of wave theory and practice" and a lot of others. During all the excursions the work of the apparatus is demonstrated.
Telegraph, 19th century.
Museum of Soviet Gaming Machines
Where: Moscow (st. Kuznetsky Most, 12) | St. Petersburg (Konyushennaya Square, 2, letter B) | Kazan (Kremlin street, 21)
Website: www.15kop.ru
Or even like this: “Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines”. The exposition contains amazing units where you can play by purchasing a special token or a 15-kopeck coin from 1975 to 1992, depending on the model of the device. The 450
Soviet arcade cars
Innovation Center "Skolkovo"
Where: Russia, Moscow , the territory of the innovation center Skolkovo, ul. Meadow, 4
Website: www.sk.ru
Phone : +7 (495) 956-00-33
South Gate "Skolkovo"
Our everything, science city, Russian silicon valley and modern scientific and technological innovation complex for the development and commercialization of new technologies. You don't even know what to write here. Residential quarters and contests with millions of prize pools, mind-blowing lectures of mega-brains from all over the world and training at the International Gymnasium, renting an office in the largest technopark of Europe and Startup Village with business angels from Formula 1. Here, to put it mildly, there is something to see, and what will happen is difficult to imagine.
And so it will be
The world's largest computer museum
Where: Germany, Paderborn , FĂĽrstenallee 7, 33102 Paderborn
Website: www.hnf.de
Phone : + 49-5251-306-600
Here is the present and the future of information technology. Thematic expositions for all or only for specialists, the history of computing technology, the world of codes and numbers, incredible programs for children, the history of communication from antiquity to our days ... 6,000 m 2 of exhibition space and lectures, seminars, conferences over 5000 years of information technology history. You can buy a ticket for adults, for children, for pensioners, family, annual subscription, damn stupa, salad in a cafe and something else in the museum shop.
Sculpture illustrating Moore's Law
German Museum of Natural Science and Technology
Where: Germany, Munich , Museumsinsel 1, 80538 MĂĽnchen
Website: www.deutsches-museum.de
Telephone : +49 (0) 89 2179-1
The world's largest museum of natural science and technology. Locals call it simply: German Museum. Here the question does not arise: “what’s a museum?”, Because it is obvious that if the Russian Museum is the arts and all humanitarian, and if the German Museum is, of course, technology. And any: from transport to musical instruments, from materials to energy technologies.
Exposure of power engines
Computer Games Museum
Where: Germany, Berlin , Karl-Marx-Allee 93a, 10243 Berlin
Website: www.computerspielemuseum.de
Telephone : +49 30 6098 8577
Sixty-year history of the evolution of computer games: from elementary consoles to the virtual world with the effect of presence. Here is collected and constantly updated the largest collection of gaming equipment and computer games in Europe. The exposition is divided into three parts: the history and background of computer games; plot and graphics; music and hardware requirements. As well as a section on gaming addiction and thousands of magazines on the history of games, design and development. There are audio guides in Russian!
Museum of Informatics
Where: France, Paris , La DĂ©fense, 25 Allee Pierre Ziller
Website: www.museeinformatique.fr
Telephone : +33 (0) 1 8087 6251
The museum is located in the business district of La Défense, “Parisian Manhattan”, in the building of the business card of the district - the Great Arch . Proud of preserving memorial objects since 1942: the world's first Micral calculator, one and a half ton Cray supercomputer for $ 15 million, a vacuum tube of 1908 and 200 more exhibits over 400m 2 .
Museum of Mathematics and Computer Science
Where: Italy, Parma , Parco Area delle Scienze 53 / a - 43124 Parma
Website: wwww.museo.dmi.unipr.it
Telephone : +39 0521 906929
The museum is small but interesting. Works as part of the University of Parma museum system . Here, permanent exhibitions can be visited by prior appointment through a museum representative museo@dmi.unipr.it .
Computer History and Computer Science Museum
Where: Poland, Katowice , 40-061 Katowice, pl. Oddziałów Młodzieży Powstańczej, 1
Website: www.muzeumkomputerow.edu.pl
Phone : +32 4130890
Here you can meet such dinosaurs, that neither in a fairy tale to say, nor with a pen describe. Sometimes right at the entrance to the museum at the time of their delivery. You can even try to write music on bbc micro via the umi midi interface, as did Depeche Mode at the dawn of his career in the 80s. Lectures and master classes are attached.
Computer Museum
Where: Belgium, Brussels, Avenue du Bourget 20 (Bourgetlaan 20), B-1130 Brussels
Website: www.unisys.be
Telephone : +32 (2) 728 05 27
Small, but officially recognized by the world technical museum of the computer company Unisys . Founded by former company employee Jacques Laffut. Guided tours by appointment.
Intel Museum
Where: USA, California , Santa Clara (2200 Mission College Boulevard)
Website: www.intel.com
Phone : +1 408-765-5050
Intel Actually, that says it all. Awesome exposure, excursions that listen with an open mouth, a unique design of the premises. Here you just have to be any geek.
Computer History Museum
Where: USA, California , Mountain View (1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043)
Website: www.computerhistory.org
Phone : +1 (650) 810-1010
Another impressive museum in California. Here it is believed that the history of the computer is 2,000 years old. Therefore, expositions and exhibitions tell about mysterious ancient devices, about future technologies, about the development and amazing breakthroughs of gadgets, about dramas of computer gurus and whole companies and about thousands of things. In particular, there is an exhibition dedicated to one of the progenitors of the computer, mathematics, Charles Babbage , who created a universal computing device difference machine .
Microsoft Visitor Center
Where: USA, Washington , Redmond , 15010 NE 36th Street, Microsoft Campus, Building 92, Redmond, WA 98052
Website: www.microsoft.com
Phone : +1 (425) 703-6214
Here, too, everything is clear. Add only that in this center you can buy a lot of teaching materials for students and teachers.
Innovation Museum
Where: USA, California , San Jose (201 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113).
Website: www.thetech.org
Phone : +1 408-294-8324
Unusually interesting expositions and excursions! The funny thing is that by the barcode on the tickets you can do different things at different stands. For example, make the robot draw your portrait. Here it is.
National Museum of Video Games
Where: USA, Texas , Frisco , 8004 N. Dallas Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75034
Website: www.vghmuseum.org
Phone : +1 (972)668-5180
The collection of this museum is huge. Here you can see the prototypes of well-known consoles, rare arcade machines and a lot of accessories for gamers. The museum is located in the Frisco Discovery Center .
This article was mainly museums. And in the next part, in addition to museums, you will see visits to research laboratories and centers, famous electronic markets, visits to game developers and a couple of surprises.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/367305/
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