The National Museum of Computing

A fantastic and fascinating place to visit. Spent only two or so hours there. Needs the same again to do it justice. Scary parts were seeing equipment l and my friends had used, displayed as museum items. The staff were very knowledgeable and genuinely enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge in a very understandable way.

Fantastic experience for children and adults! Loads to explore and learn! And the Staff there are amazing! Great for a day out!

A museum made with a lot of love and passion. Unfortunately with little financial means, so that the exposition looks a bit worn.The extremely friendly staff comfort about it.

Visited here on Friday as part of the Geocaching community. What a fab place. It was so well set up with staff obviously passionate and interested in what they were talking about. I would have liked to have spent more time here and would like to return.

The staffs are very knowledgeable and provide a few 30-minute explainer sessions on topics involving Enigma machine, Bombe, Tunny code system, and more. There are a few rooms and some corridors showing those very old computers, and you can see some black and white screens, screens with big green texts, and computer screens with only 16 basic colours. You can see devices/computers including really old Apple computers, old IBM computers, old Compaq computers, old model Ericsson/Nodia phones, floppy disks, disk readers, joy sticks, electronic circuits. Xerox, NEC, etc are just some old brands in electronic devices / phones that you can see. A large box of computer is labelled with Portable Computer. Some of the old computers are not simply for show. The museum made them available for visitors to play retro games (such as Pacman) on them. At the end of the tour, there is a small cafe / gift shop area.

An often overlooked gem of a museum next to but not part of bletchly park.. you can visit on its own which is well worth it or as part of a visit to bletchly itself with a combined ticketThe museum is home to the largest collection of historic working computers in Europe including recreations of the bombe and colossus from bletchly through to the first true computer and early commercial machines with some heath Robinson level ingenuity to make them work from tubes of mercury for memory through to high speed tape reels.. the museum also houses old mainframe machines and even games consoles, calculators and slide rules and is absolutely fascinating for anyone with even a passing interest in computing..Not only is the collection one of a kind but many of the staff are too, many worked on machines like the ones in the collection or have experience in the field and all have in depth knowledge of the various machines, how they work and can often even demonstrate functions to a visitor.. we expected to spend an hour or so but our visit was much much longer

Genuinely amazing collection showing the history of computing from it's Inception to the modern day. Huge number of retro computers to directly interact with including games from the 8 and 16 bit eras. Knowledgeable experts in every area, happy to chat through any exhibit or computer

A great day out. The volunteers have an impressive depth of knowledge about the exhibits and are really engaging. The exhibits themselves are also amazing, especially the Bombe and Colossus. Highly recommended.

This museum is an absolute must visit when going to Bletchley Park. It is a separately run museum requiring its own entrance fee. We were escorted by Robert, a highly enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide. Robert took time to explain the techniques and algorithms used in code breaking. Highlights of the exhibits are the Bombe and Colossus replicas, and the Enigma & Lorenz cipher machines. However, the history of modern computing from mainframes mechanical calculators is also well covered. Notes: the exhibition is closed to the public on Fridays. A discount voucher is provided for visitors to Bletchley Park.