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 American Computer & Robotics Museum - Bozeman, MT Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 45° 39.558 W 111° 03.308
12T E 495704 N 5056195
Opened in May of 1990 in Bozeman, this is the world's oldest continually operating museum dedicated to the History of the Computer, the Information Age, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Social Networking.
Waymark Code: WMWXX3
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 10/27/2017
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Dealing with every aspect of computer science, information technology and related disciplines, the museum houses displays of essentially everything imaginable which relates to these aspects of science and technology. Here, one will find the machines and inventions which enabled mankind's social and economic advancement through the ages, from the abacus to the printing press, telegraph, telephone and typewriter, to the calculator, the computer and the internet. More displays deal with the related fields of robotics, communications, entertainment, recreation - essentially every avenue of life today in which these technologies play a part.
The museum is a nonprofit organization, free to enter, though donations are always greatly appreciated.
Bozeman, Montana - American Computer Museum
See the information super highway when it was barely a dirt road! The American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman features the most comprehensive display of the history of the information age. See a 30,000 year timeline that merges ancient cave paintings of southern France to ideologies of the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, Lewis & Clark’s expeditions, the Pony Express, the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television, computers and the Internet to educate and delight the geekiest of computer geeks to those just beginning to explore the evolution of computers.
This Bozeman computer museum has spectacular exhibits of antique office equipment and furniture including typewriters, cash registers, time pieces, slide rules, adding machines on through 1940s and 1970s room-sized computers.
See the original Apollo Moon Mission Guidance Computer.
From Bozeman Dot Net
Winner of a 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence and rated within the top 5 attractions in Bozeman by TripAdvisor, the American Computer Museum is designed and built for both Techies and Non-Techies alike. Opened in May of 1990 in Bozeman, it is the world's oldest continually operating nonprofit museum dedicated to the History of the Information Age, Robotics/Artificial Intelligence & Social Networking. "Inch for inch, the best museum in the world." - Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus - Harvard. "An eye-opener for nine-year-olds to ninety-nine-year-olds, and you'll find your conversations going back to it again and again." - Montana Magazine. As seen on TripAdvisor and in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, Billings Gazette, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, ABC News, Vancouver Courier, New Yorker Magazine, USA Today, C-Span, ABC News, Distinctly Montana, and many other media outlets...
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Price of Admission: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Weekday Hours: From: 10:00 AM To: 4:00 PM
Weekend Hours: From: 10:00 AM To: 4:00 PM
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