The National Museum of Computing

Block H,
Bletchley Park
Bletchley
Buckinghamshire
MK3 6EB
England

Website

www.tnmoc.org

E-mail

info@tnmoc.org

Telephone

01908 374708

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Rebuild of Colossus, the world's first modern computer
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The National Museum of Computing is located at Bletchley Park and is an independent charity housing the largest collection of functional historic computers in Europe, including a rebuilt Colossus, the world’s first electronic programmable computer.
Visitors can follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s. New working exhibits are regularly unveiled and the public can already view a rebuilt and fully operational Colossus, the restoration of the Harwell / WITCH computer, and an ICL 2966, one of the workhorse mainframes computers of the 1980s, many of the earliest desktops of the 1980s and 1990s, plus the NPL Technology of the Internet Gallery.

Venue Type:

Museum, Science centre, Heritage site

 Opening hours

TNMOC All Galleries: open Thursday and Saturday afternoons (1pm to 5pm in summer or 4pm in winter) plus summer bank holidays.

TNMOC Guided Tours: Tuesday and Sunday afternoons at 2pm. Book through the Bletchley Park ticket office by the main entrance from 12 noon. £5 per person.

The Colossus and the Tunny Galleries are open daily as an extension to the Bletchley Park tour.

Organisations can arrange special visits and tours and use TNMOC's seminar room facilities from £20 per head per day.

 Admission charges

Entrance to the whole of TNMOC is £5 per person (£2.50 concessions, free for children 12 and under).
Entrance to the Colossus and Tunny galleries only is £2 (£1 concessions).
Entry is free to TNMOC members.

If you are coming only to TNMOC, there is no need to pay the Bletchley Park entrance fee (the Bletchley Park Trust is a separate organisation).

The Colossus and the Tunny Galleries are open daily as an extension to the Bletchley Park tour (see note below). Check tour start times at Bletchley Park Admissions. A £2 fee (£1 for concessions, free for children 12 and under) is charged for access to Colossus and Tunny.

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Gardens open to public
  • Parking for coaches
  • Picnic area
  • Refreshments
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
 Links

Additional info

Some of the facilties listed are part of the main Bletchley Park site and not specific to the Computer Museum. We are able to offer tailored programmes for educational, corporate or spcial interest groups upon request.

Block H,
Bletchley Park
Bletchley
Buckinghamshire
MK3 6EB
England

Website

www.tnmoc.org

E-mail

info@tnmoc.org

Telephone

01908 374708

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

The collection is 90% hands on. We have examples of most of the popular home computers such as the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore and BBC Micro. We also have a large selection of business machines, a couple of working DEC minicomputers (one from Blacknest, the Goverment seismic activity monitoring station) and a 1960's Elliott 803 mainframe also working (sometimes!!).

The machines are loaded with a variety of business software, games and programming languages, most of which are ready for you to have a go.

Collection details

Industry, Science and Technology, Social History, Weapons and War

Key artists and exhibits

  • One of the most important items in the collection is an Apple Lisa. This was the first commercial machine to use a graphical interface, it was released in 1984 and pre-dates Windows.

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Block H,
Bletchley Park
Bletchley
Buckinghamshire
MK3 6EB
England

Website

www.tnmoc.org

E-mail

info@tnmoc.org

Telephone

01908 374708

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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