American Computer Museum in Bozeman Montana

See the information high way when it was a dirt road! Here at the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, the Compuseum will show you the most comprehensive display of the history of the information age. From the ancient cave paintings of southern France to the ideologies of the Enlightenment, the knowledge based American Revolution to the explorations of Lewis & Clark, the Pony Express, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television computers and the Internet are interwoven and presented in a 30,000 year timeline with thousands of historic artifacts and supporting materials.

Visitors from all 50 states and over 30 countries have marveled at the vast scope of the Compuseum's collection ranging from 4,400 year old Babylonian Clay tablets through an original copy of Sir Isaac Newton's revolutionary book, Principia (the foundation of physics) to rare documents from American and world-wide contributors to the rise of the Information Age including signed documents by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Graham Bell, Samuel Morse, Ada Lovelace, Claude Shannon with original first editions of books by Charles Babbage, John Von Neuman, etc., to spectacular exhibits of antique office equipment and furniture including typewriters, cash registers, time pieces, slide rules, adding machines on through the enormous room-sized computers of the 19405 through the 19705.

The stories of radio, television, the transistor, the microprocessor and other important inventions are showcased with world-class artifacts including an original Apollo Moon Mission Guidance Computer, a piece of the ENIAC computer and the first generations of the personal computer including the Altair, Apple I, the IBM PC, the first portable computers and hundreds of hand- held electronic calculators including the prototype of the very first one!

The best part of the Compuseum is that those visitors with little if any computer background have left extremely positive comments regarding their ability to, for the first time, understand the computer revolution. Individuals with backgrounds and interests spanning antiques, human history, the Story of writing and mathematics, philosophy and the arts have found the Compuseum equally as engaging as those particularly interested in the history and evolution of science and technology. Those who are fascinated with technology: computer and communications specialists and professional historians of science and technology have been impressed with the depth of the Compuseum's historic coverage. Children as well as adults enjoy the hands-on opportunities to try for themselves some early devices including typewriters, adding machines, slide rules and early games in the Compuseum's interactive area.

The Compuseum has been written about in such quality media outlets as, The New Yorker Magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, The Los Angeles limes, QST Magazine, PC Week Magazine, National Public Radio, C-Span and national network television.

The Compuseum is located at the American Computer Museum at 2304 North 7th Avenue - Suite B (across the street from Murdocks Ranch & Home Supply) in Bozeman. There is plenty of free parking available. The admission fee is $4 per adult (13 yrs. and older), $2 per child (6 to 12 yrs.) and free for children under 6.

Museum hours areSeptember-May:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Noon - 4 p.m. & Thursdays 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. June, July & August:
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 7 days a week & Thursdays till 8 p.m.
Closed July 4th, Christmas and New Year's Days.

For More Information:
2304 North 7th Avenue - Suite B
Bozeman, MT 59715
Local (406) 582-1288
Content from Bozeman Chamber of Commerce