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Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA USA https://computerhistory.org

Kennett Classic in Kennett Square, PA USA https://www.kennettclassic.com

Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io

System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/

Vintage Computer Federation Museum at Infoage in Wall NJ USA https://vcfed.org/museum-info/

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Hopefully someday we can re-add Living Computers in Seattle, WA USA to the list. https://www.livingcomputers.org

Paul Allen's death, and then the COVID pandemic, effectively put the museum in stasis. At least two of Allen's former museum-ish places are getting to reopen soon - both the downtown Cinerama and the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor museum in Mukilteo have been sold by his estate and are reopening this year. Hopefully Living Computers is next.

If the Cinerama can be saved, so then can the LCM, one should hope. The LCM isn’t in the same kind of prime location the Cinerama is. I picture the terms to be different, no pre-existing 3rd party to hand things off to, and getting some of the key people back is going to be a challenge.

I really hope so, does anyone know if there are any grassroots efforts to help lobby for this?

Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, CO USA https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/

Thank you, that one’s local and I had no idea about it.

Connections Museum in Seattle, WA (telecom focus) https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/

I've been to System Source and I can highly reccomend it. The curator, @inversephase is awesome and super knowledgeable. Tons of fun to talk to.

American Computer and Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT USA https://acrmuseum.org/

National Videogame Museum in Frisco, TX https://nvmusa.org/

I went there in September of last year and really enjoyed it. If anyone wants to see some of it, I posted my pics in a blog post. Unfortunately it doesn't have many pictures of the computers that were hands on there, but more of the video game consoles. https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/09/national-videogame-museum-t...

We must go nearly all the same places :P

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