Computer History Museum

LC control no.	nr2005026865
Corporate name heading	Computer History Museum *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Computer Museum (Mountain View, Calif.)
See also	Computer Museum History Center *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Found in	Computer History Museum web site, viewed on 9 Nov. 2005: caption (Computer History Museum) footer (1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA) Early user interface design at Apple, c1997: opening credits (Bay Area Computer History Perspectives and the Computer Museum present ...) Its Web site, Nov. 4, 2008 (Computer History Museum was formally established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in 1999; in 1979, the museum's founders Gordon and Gwen Bell opened an exhibit of many computing devices from their personal collection in the lobby of Digital Equipment Corporation; it wasn't long afterward that the museum's name became The Digital Computer Museum and subsequently The Computer Museum; fall of 1984, The Computer Museum opened to the public at Museum Wharf in Boston, sharing space with the Children's Museum; in 1996, a significant portion of the museum's collection moved to Mountain View, Calif.; by 2000 the remaining collection from Boston arrived in Silicon Valley; in 2001, the museum shortened its name from The Computer Museum History Center to its current name)