London: Group Visit to the The National Museum of Computing

Group Visit to The National Museum of Computing

The National Museum of Computing is an independent charity. It houses the world’s largest collection of functional historic computers and World War II machines.

This museum is home to the world’s largest collection of working historic computers and is recognised as one of England’s top 100 “irreplaceable places”. It houses the functional historic computers and World War II machines, including Enigma, Lorenz, the working Turing-Welchman Bombe, the rebuilt Colossus (the world’s first electronic computer), and the WITCH (the world’s oldest working digital computer).

The Museum enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s and beyond. Visitors will engage with several volunteers as they go round, who will be on hand to deliver the stories and full demonstrations of the working exhibits.

This museum is situated adjacent to the Bletchley Park complex and is an independent museum with its own separate entrance and admission fee. There is a car park, but the site is only a short walk (less than 15 minutes) from Bletchley train station. Trains run from London Euston and typically take around 53 minutes. There is also a café at the museum.

We will meet at the museum but will need to know in advance who will be coming.

This is a paid event- currently £15, with some concessions.

Further details to follow. Please re-visit this page for details and joining instructions.