The Computer History Museum
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Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum
09/23/2004 05:10 AMComputer History Museumhttp://www.computerhistory.org/
The Computer History Museum is the world's largest and
most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the
computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. It allows
you to discover how computing became the amplifier for our minds and
changed the way we work, live and play. We hope your visit will be
educational and entertaining and that the legacy of these innovations
live on to inspire others.
Computer History Museum revisits the
birth of the Mac
Computer History Museum revisits the
birth of the Mac
12/29/2003 04:17 PMJanuary 2004 brings the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh computer,
and
The Computer History
Museum is going to celebrate with its "The Macintosh Marketing
Story: Fact and Fiction, 20 Years Later" panel lecture next month,
approximately two weeks after Macworld Expo.
Museum of Funeral History
Museum of Funeral History
02/01/2005 08:37 PMDavid Pescovitz:
BB reader Robert
Aguirre points us to the National Museum of Funeral History in
Houston, Texas where, where the "largest assemblage of
fantasy coffins outside of Ghana"
are on display, along with other treasures like this 1921 RockFalls
hearse, hand-carved from six kinds of wood.
LinkSeattle's Museum of History & Industry
Seattle's Museum of History & Industry
10/28/2003 11:08 PM Seattle's
Museum of History
& Industry has compiled a
p
hotographic archive of Seattle and its surrounding communities.
Over 12,000 images from
local museums, libraries and historical societies capture
the heritage of King county spanning over 100 years. The
project was developed through the National Leadership Grant
for Library and Museum Collaboration.
Lincoln Museum Goes High-Tech with
History
Lincoln Museum Goes High-Tech with
History
04/02/2005 04:39 AMNPR Apr 2 2005 7:44AM GMT
Tour through computing industry history
at the Microsoft Museum
Tour through computing industry history
at the Microsoft Museum
06/14/2004 01:13 PMAnders Hejlberg is a distinguished engineer here. At least that's his
official title. But that doesn't do justice to the role he's played in
the industry (first at Borland, where he ran the team that developed
Turbo Pascal and later Delphi, or here at Microsoft, where he and his
team developed C#).
Justine Cooper's photos of the American
Museum of Natural History
Justine Cooper's photos of the American
Museum of Natural History
06/05/2005 11:42 PMDavid Pescovitz:
Justine Cooper was the first
artist-in-residence at the American Museum of Natural History in New
York City. During her residency, she explored the back passageways,
storage rooms, and specimen cases where the majority of the museum's
collection is stored. Cooper documented what she saw using a wood 4x5
view camera from 1910. Her huge photographs are a stunning testament
to the wonder and oddity of nature as we collect it. Cooper's show,
Saved By Science, at the Kashya Hildebrand gallery in New York closed
today, but much of the work can be viewed online. (Seen here: Trophies
| 30" x 39") From the press release and artist statement:
Sheer optical exuberance surfaces from a set of Graphium sarpedon
butterflies. In the Victorian attic a group of donated ex-Barnum &
Bailey, Ringling Brothers Circus seals, swathed in plastic wrap, await
their departure to climate-controlled storage. The 21st century liquid
nitrogen cooled frozen tissue collection holds a million specimens in
a room the size of a studio apartment. Immense corridors of locked
steel storage cabinets most powerfully express the veil of structure
dropped over the complexity of nature...
The photographs present the stored collections as both an evolution of
the collecting and storing process, and as an historical and
contemporary perspective on how we systematize and assign value to
nature.
L
ink (Thanks, Heather Sparks!)Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television
Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television
06/10/2004 10:19 PMsuperb colloboration .. ingenious.org.uk .. 3
museums,
ingenious.org.uk
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"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television."
"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television."
06/11/2004 05:57 PMAustralian Computer Museum Needs a
Saviour
Australian Computer Museum Needs a
Saviour
06/24/2004 01:22 AMHall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum
of America
Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum
of America
05/10/2004 02:42 PMChristie's to auction computer history
Christie's to auction computer history
02/05/2005 09:40 PMThis isn't your average eBay auction. For those who want to own a bit
of computer and Internet history, the venerable auction house
Christie's International is putting on the block a collection of
documents that follow the evolution of computing from the 1600s to the
1970s.
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Christie's to auction computer history
collection
Christie's to auction computer history
collection
02/05/2005 08:59 PMAuction house Christie's International PLC later this month will
auction off a collection of documents showing the evolution of
computing from the 1600s to the 1970s.
"A network called 'Internet' - Computer
Invasion: A History of Aut..."
"A network called 'Internet' - Computer
Invasion: A History of Aut..."
01/07/2004 06:08 PMChina bans computer game accused of
distorting history (AFP)
China bans computer game accused of
distorting history (AFP)
05/29/2004 12:31 PMAFP - China has banned a Swedish-made computer game accused of
"distorting history and damaging China's sovereignty," by showing
Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations, state press
said.
China bans computer game accused of
distorting history
China bans computer game accused of
distorting history
05/29/2004 12:14 AMChannel NewsAsia May 29 2004 3:42AM GMT
Computer package aims to bring Scottish
history alive for pupils
Computer package aims to bring Scottish
history alive for pupils
05/25/2004 04:35 PMScotland Today May 25 2004 8:02PM GMT
CIA Spy Museum
CIA Spy Museum
12/29/2003 11:50 PMCIA Museum Showcases Exotic Spy Gadgets. Spy
satellites, anti-rocket laser cannons — you know the
drill.
Besides the jungle transmitter, the exhibits include a
robotic catfish, a remote-controlled dragonfly and a camera strapped
to the chests of pigeons and released over enemy targets in the 1970s.
The secret gadgets currently used by CIA are left to the imagination
of visitors.
I wonder how this compares to the Intern
ational Spy Museum.
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Music Museum to Get Wi-Fi
Music Museum to Get Wi-Fi
12/08/2003 04:45 PMI wrote a story for the Seattle Times about a planned wireless network
at the Experience Music Project: The rock museum, built by Paul Allen,
plans to offer the network to visitors but also use it for a variety
of internal functions. One plan is to use the network to stream audio
and video to handheld devices that visitors can carry around through
the exhibits. I'm not sure I did a very good job of conveying how
interesting this project is. For those of you who aren't familiar with
the EMP or haven't seen pictures, it's a Frank Gehry building that
looks like a bunch of colorful lumps glued together. I would imagine
that building a wireless network there would be a nightmare, given the
structure doesn't have a single right angle. I'll be interested to
check back with the folks at EMP in a couple of months when more of
the network should be in place to hear about the experience. Then I'd
like to check in again next summer to see how many of the ambitious
applications are actually in place....
Framley Museum
Framley Museum
12/03/2003 02:38 PM Framley Museum.
'The museum was founded in 1882 when objects of local interest began
to gather in the field where the museum now stands, due to the natural
action of the wind and rain. '
'In 1886, visionary Whoft
philanthropist, Manimal MacCorkindale proposed building some walls
around the objects, forming Framley's first museum.
A door fitted in 1932 cemented the museum's popularity.'
Courtesy
of the mighty
Framley
Examiner. Fiji Museum
Fiji Museum
01/17/2004 10:42 PM Welcome to the
Fiji
Museum.
Museum Victoria
Museum Victoria
03/21/2003 10:20 AM Museum Victoria,
Australia's largest public museums organisation.
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Steamboat Museum
Steamboat Museum
01/22/2004 02:12 AM Steamboat Museum.
museum of idiots
museum of idiots
06/05/2005 10:53 PMI saw Phil Hellmuth at E3 today, in what I think was the Yahoo! Games
booth (I'm not entirely sure,...
Mah Jong Museum
Mah Jong Museum
10/28/2003 11:08 PM Welcome to
The Mah Jong
Museum.
Pics of Sci-Fi Museum
Pics of Sci-Fi Museum
06/07/2004 03:51 PM
Kirsten Anderson of Roq La Rue
gallery in Seattle posted some pictures from the "friends and family"
premiere of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle.
LinkChicago Museum to Get Wi-Fi
Chicago Museum to Get Wi-Fi
08/27/2004 01:30 PMThe very cool Field Museum in Chicago will get a Wi-Fi network, built
by Concourse: Most users will pay a "nominal" fee to access the
network, but Chicago Public School kids and their teachers will get
free access. The museum also envisions using the network to offer
interactive exhibits in the future. The Experience Music Project, Paul
Allen's music museum in Seattle, also built a Wi-Fi network in its
space recently. The networks sound useful internally for museum
workers as much as for an extra service for visitors. I'm not sure how
willing or interested I would be in paying to access a Wi-Fi network
in a museum after I've already paid an entrance fee. But the networks
would offer a great conduit for delivering content about exhibits to
handheld devices as part of the regular museum experience. The EMP has
a bar and restaurant that people can visit without paying an entrance
fee to the museum so those users might be interested in paying to use
the network....
SF museum site
SF museum site
06/11/2004 07:32 PMThe website for Seattle's science fiction museum is live.
Link
(
Thanks, Fun Furde)
The Museum of London
The Museum of London
12/07/2003 08:14 AM The Museum of London.
Rodin Museum
Rodin Museum
07/07/2004 02:52 PM
Rodin Museum.
Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns
Sci-Fi Museum Is About More Than Ray
Guns
06/13/2004 04:49 PMAP via Los Angeles Times Jun 13 2004 8:05PM GMT
Art Museum Screensaver 4.0
Art Museum Screensaver 4.0
06/22/2004 06:51 PMA compilation of some of histories greatest art.
Museum Cats
Museum Cats
09/23/2004 11:35 AM
The Art of Cats:
The
Katte
nkabinet (
Cat Cabinet, the Cat Museum) of Amsterdam:
a collection of objects d'art wholly centered around the theme of
the cat, among which you will find a wonderful
gallery
including
Picasso. Controversial
social taboos are not avoided. Malaysia's
Cat City of
Kuching has a
Cat Museum;
more info on the Museum of Meows
he
re (
Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows in mourning when
the family cat died. Malays attached superstitions to cats believing
they possessed supernatural powers...) The scullery of Kathleen
Mann's Antiques in London's High Street has a "
Purrfect Museum" too, with 250 exhibits
from all over the world going back to the 1770s, founded by Kathleen
and her mother ...
Kitty. Not to be outdone,
Lith
uania and
Russia
have cat museums as well.
The Kelet Museum
The Kelet Museum
01/02/2005 12:46 AMwhat you are about to discover is a creature not of this world ..
Kelet Museum .. kelets
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CIA Online Spy Museum
CIA Online Spy Museum
12/27/2003 12:30 PM The
CIA's Online Spy Museum DC Museum Report
DC Museum Report
12/17/2004 06:36 PMWrapping up my stay in Washington, DC, here's a report on the
museums. The National Gallery has a Dan Flavin show. Even
if you have seen his fluorescent light works in Marfa, Texas or at
Dia:Beacon this exhibition is worthwhile. My favorite piece is
"untitled (honor of Harold Joachim) 3", a corner installation that
graces the cover of Dan
Flavin: The Complete Lights. The new National Museum of the American
Indian has a temporary show of George Morrison wood
collages. Morrison was a 20th century Chippewa artist. The
cafeteria is fantastic. The rest of the American Indian museum
is worth seeing in the sense that a train wreck is fascinating.
The project cost more than $220 million and is kind of a sick
supersized parody of Frank Lloyd Wright's NY Guggenheim. There
is a huge cylindrical atrium that is basically empty and that barely
relates to the exhibits, which are well off to the side in dark
claustrophobic galleries. The artwork and artifacts are dimly
lit and crammed into crowded display cases. Compared to the
anthropology museum in Mexico City or the average American Indian
museum in Oklahoma or South Dakota this new Smithsonian is a
depressing example of the current state of American non-profit
organization management. It reminds one of the disappointing Udvar-Hazy Air and
Space annex at Dulles Airport, where nearly $1 billion seems to
have been invested in the kind of museum that Polynesian cargo
cultists might have built. I.e., a lot of interesting objects
(airplanes) are displayed but the assumption is that they can't be
understood or explained.
[Update: Ellis Vener just emailed a photo that he snapped of
Alex
in the back seat.]
Behind the Scenes: The U.K.'s Science
Museum
Behind the Scenes: The U.K.'s Science
Museum
03/25/2005 05:03 PMEver wonder what goes on behind the scenes at a major science museum?
ExtremeTech received a sneak peek of the U.K.'s Museum of Science and
Industry's archives in Swindon.
The Candy Wrapper Museum
The Candy Wrapper Museum
06/03/2004 03:39 AMThe Candy Wrapper Museum
candywrappermuseum.com
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Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a
Museum Piece
Online, Anything and Everything Can Be a
Museum Piece
03/30/2005 01:44 AMThe age of MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, is over. The age of MoOM,
the Museum of Online Museums, is upon us.
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