Explore cultural moments in tech history, discover the strange and interesting stories behind unique artifacts, meet the pioneers who created our digital world, and go behind-the-scenes in CHM's collections.

Check out our other exhibits to learn Photoshop from the pros, experience the sights and sounds of classic computing, try your hand at coding, and discover why computer history is more than 2,000 years old.

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Check out chatbots and dig into AI in our new exhibit, Chatbots Decoded: Exploring AI, learn Photoshop from the pros, experience the sights and sounds of classic computing, try your hand at coding, and discover why computer history is more than 2,000 years old. Discover all this and much, much more in CHM’s exhibits.

CHM stewards the world’s leading collection and archive chronicling the history and impact of computing and technological innovation on the human experience. From machines to source code, lab notebooks to business plans, our collecting scope is expansive with unique perspectives into the online world, entrepreneurship, and software.

CHM has something for everyone. Dive deep into the history of computing, from the abacus to the internet, in our signature exhibit, Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing. Check out computer programming in action in Make Software: Change the World! and much more.

Computer History Museum The first advertisement for a microprocessor, the Intel 4004, appears in Electronic News. Developed for Busicom, a Japanese calculator maker, the 4004 had 2250 transistors and could perform up to 90,000 operations per second in four-bit chunks.

CHM is the leading museum decoding computing’s ongoing impact on our world. From the heart of Silicon Valley, we are uniquely positioned to cull the key lessons of the past and through our research, exhibits, events, and incomparable collection of computing artifacts create informed digital citizens empowered to make the choices that will ...

CHM HISTORY. From our founding in Boston to our home in Silicon Valley, CHM’s journey is as extraordinary as the history we preserve and the technological innovations that have transformed our world. Discover the archive of The Computer Museum, a predecessor of CHM and founded in 1975 by Ken Olsen and Gordon and Gwen Bell. Explore our history

The Computer Museum (TCM) The Computer Museum, dropping “Digital” from its name, relocates to Museum Wharf in the heart of downtown Boston. Its mission is threefold: Much of this “DNA” lives on at CHM today. See The Computer Museum’s historical website here: http://tcm.computerhistory.org/.