George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is showcasing the world-renowned treasures of its photography, motion picture, and technology collections via the exhibition The Best of Photo & Film: Right Before Your Eyes. More than 200 unique and historically significant artifacts, presented together for the first time, will create this rare experience on view Sept. 13, 2003 through April 11, 2004.
In seinem Programm vom 24. Juni 1987 verpflichtete sich das Deutsche Historische Museum der "Aufklärung und Verständigung über die gemeinsame Geschichte von Deutschen und Europäern".
Bevor diese Idee umgesetzt werden konnte, gab es heftige und kontroverse Debatten in der deutschen Presse. Sinn, Aufgaben und Realisierungschancen eines von der Bundesregierung in Berlin ins Leben gerufenen Nationalmuseums zur Geschichte Deutschlands bezweifelten die Skeptiker.
Die Gründungsurkunde für ein Deutsches Historisches Museum konnte am 28. Oktober 1987, anläßlich der 750-Jahr-Feier der Stadt Berlin, von Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl und dem Regierenden Bürgermeister der Stadt Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, im Gebäude des Reichstags unterzeichnet werden.
The Deutsches Museum is one of the biggest museums of technology and science in the world. It is not a state museum but an independent public institution. Under the terms of its constitution it has the right of self administration and functions under the protection and supervision of the Bavarian state government.
Besides its main building on the Munich "museum island" the Deutsches Museum also has two branch museums:
The Deutsches Museum Bonn and the
Flugwerft Schleißheim some kilometers northwest of Munich
The University of Virginia's Computer Museum was conceived and created by Professor Gabriel Robins, who also serves as its curator.
The museum contains various computer-related artifacts, both historical and modern. Most of the artifacts shown here are physically located in display cases in the hallways of the Department of Computer Science (Olsson Hall) at the University of Virginia.
These artifacts came from the personal collections of some of our faculty members, and several other donors, including Professor Sam Cooke of the University of Louisville. To see an enlarged view of any or the artifacts / photos, please click on it.
This page all about old machines such as pdp11, dec20's and other old VAX systems. I've also included information about old hard drives that were sold at the time.
I added the latter when a student told me a picture of a Fujistu Eagle hard drive was a power surge protector
Our Mission: The Virtual Museum of Natural History was established to provide instant, ready access to current biodiversity data to all interested users via the Internet at no charge
The Computer Museum of America has selected 10 computer pioneers to be inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame this summer, Museum Curator David Weil announced.
Half the 10 new inductees were selected by the public in an online poll. The other half of the Class of 2002 were chosen by a select panel of the Computer Museum of America.
The collection began during the 18th century with models of several ships of the Royal Fleet. Now, more than a century later, the Museum has over 17,000 items, in addition to the photographic archive-containing about 30,000 photographs-and the drawing and ships’ plans archives approximately 1,500. In Portuguese and English.
The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. As such, the Museum plays a unique role in the history of the computing revolution and its worldwide impact on the human experience.
The Computer History Museum has online exhibits for interested visitors and specialists, as well as resources for researchers. "Visible Storage: Samples from the Collection" is a true online exhibit, with an overview, text, and images in sections starting with "Ancient-1940s" to "1970s-1990s." The "Timeline of History of Computing from 1945-1990" has brief text and images for various aspects of the time period, searchable by year or by subject, including Computers, People & Pop Culture, Software, Components, Robots & AI, Networks, and Companies. "Internet History, 1962-1992" provides more details about the development of the Internet along with larger images. "Microprocessors, 1971-1996" is an online version of a poster developed for the museum. Designed to look like a microprocessor, it presents the various products of companies over time. "Curator's Choice" features ten artifacts from the permanent collection, and the Hall of Fellows provides biographies of more than 20 individuals who contributed to the development of computing. Finally, the Document Archive has more than ten documents available in PDF format in an index, or listed by subject category. A search of the artifact collection provides catalog entries but no images.
The Kew Bridge Steam Museum is housed in a magnificent 19th Century Pumping Station and centres around the station's five world famous Cornish Beam Engines, two of which can be seen, in steam, every weekend.
Originally used to pump West London's water supply for more than a century, one of them, the "Grand Junction 90", is the largest working beam engine in the world.
