ZCOM, Computer museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany.
ZCOM is a computer museum in Hoyerswerda, housed since 2017 at D.-Bonhoeffer-Straße 1–3 on 1000 square metres. Its permanent exhibition covers computing technology and its social effects, linking the machines to art. Highlights are the Zuse computers Z 11, Z 22, Z 23 and Z 25, a working model of the Z1 and the Graphomat Z64 plotter.
The museum was founded in 1995 and started very small but grew steadily over the years. A major expansion in 2016 added significantly more exhibition space to show a larger collection of machines and their stories.
The collection shows how computers changed daily life and work for people over time. You see the machines that once filled offices and homes, and how people actually used them.
The museum closed to public visitors on 1 September 2026. Its last site was at D.-Bonhoeffer-Straße 1–3, where the permanent exhibition covered 1000 square metres. A 45-minute interactive audio-play tour with 12 QR-code stations traced the development of the first computer.
Many of the computers and machines on display still work, which is quite rare for such old equipment. This gives visitors a direct sense of how these machines actually functioned in their time.
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