American Compuseum

Even the worst technophobe will enjoy and learn something new about computer evolution at the Bozeman Computer Museum, located near the Museum of the Rockies.

  • Bozeman Computer Museum has spectacular exhibits of antique office equipment and furniture including typewriters, cash registers, time pieces, slide rules, adding machines on through 1940s and 1970s room-sized computers.
  • See the original Apollo Moon Mission Guidance Computer.

Overview

See the information super highway when it was barely a dirt road! At the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, the Compuseum displays the most comprehensive display of the history of the information age. See a 30,000 year timeline that merges ancient cave paintings of southern France to ideologies of the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, Lewis & Clark’s expeditions, the Pony Express, the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television, computers and the Internet to educate and delight the geekiest of computer geeks to those just beginning to explore the evolution of computers.

Location

American Computer Museum
2023 Stadium Drive, Suite 1-A
Bozeman, MT 59715
406-582-1288

Directions

From the Museum of the Rockies, head West on Kagy Boulevard, less than a mile. American Computer Museum (its new location), is located on Stadium Drive, on the left, just past 11th Avenue.

Hours

March, April and May: Noon to 4 pm, Tuesday through Sunday
June, July and August: 10am to 4pm, 7 days
Closed on July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day

Fees

Admission is currently FREE in celebration of the Museum’s 20th year anniversary.

Highlights

  • 4,400 year old Babylonian Clay tablets through an original copy of Sir Isaac Newton's revolutionary book, Principia (the foundation of physics)
  • 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, and more
  • 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 1940s through the 1970s.
  • 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
  • Hundreds of hand- held electronic calculators including the very first prototype

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