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Switzerland’s Museum of Consumer Electronics

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If you're ever at EPFL or near Lausanne, there's Musée Bolo as well. Probably smaller than this one, but free.

And shoot me an email, until spring I can still give you a tour:-)

Nice, I'll definitely visit this one with my kids. Strange I didn't hear about this one as a Swiss living about an hour away.

Heh, same here :)

I guess a fair percentage of HN commenters live in Switzerland.

It feels like Switzerland is really overrepresented on HN compared to its population for some reason. I wonder why that is?

Might be since HN feels a little like home: opinions are appreciated but moderation is expected. Source: Swiss myself.

Also Swiss here, never heard of this. Will need to take a trip to Solothurn =)

I had passed by it and didn't think much about it. Probably have to organize a field trip with my friends now.

Another excellent museum is the Museum für Kommunikation in Berne. Maybe less to touch, but still a lot of cool exhibits.

https://www.mfk.ch/

Might have to check it out - by coincidence I’m flying to Switzerland (from Australia) tomorrow for an holiday and will pass nearby on Sunday.

Sounds quite cool that they have some Crypto AG machines. Those have a rather infamous history - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

Crypto AG is such a stain on our reputation, it is not even funny. Nor discussed much. The (incredible) limited political fall out is, in my opinion, the worst.

Cover up, delay, cover up, delay, trickle some info, delay more, wait till people have changed roles, pretend there is no records, fail to remember, the list is endless.

There's a similar one in Cracow:

https://muzeumelektroniki.pl/?page_id=99

A real nostalgic journey, you can touch everything and many of these actually work.

I strongly recommend the American Computer & Robotics Museum [1] in Bozeman, MT. It's a small museum with a huge legacy.

[1] - https://acrmuseum.org

Looks very cool. I'm going to be in Switzerland next week, but sadly no time to make the trip down from Zurich... :( Reminds me of the Computer History museum in Mountain View, CA. I visited many years ago, it was very cool then, but much improved now from what I understand.

If you are every in the area of either, visit - it is good for engineers to understand what came before, IMHO.

If your in our around Cambridge (UK) there is this https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

Home to a computer made just out of transistors!

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