Hellenic IT Museum, Computer museum in Moschato-Tavros Municipality, Greece
The Hellenic IT Museum is a computer and technology museum located in the Moschato-Tavros Municipality, a residential suburb of Athens, Greece. It displays a collection of old and rare objects, from early laptops to oversized storage drives, covering the history of information technology from the 1970s to the mid-1990s.
The Hellenic IT Museum was founded in May 2008 by Georgios Tsekouras and began operating in 2009. In 2012 it became the first official body in Greece to gather knowledge on the development of computing from 1970 to the mid-1990s in a single space, under the legal umbrella of a non-profit organisation approved by the Court of First Instance of Athens (A.K. 1428/2012).
The museum's collection comes entirely from donations: more than 11,500 objects given by over 550 donors, including individuals, public bodies and large private organisations. Exhibits feature machines from Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad, Texas Instruments, Wang, Olivetti, Zenith, Casio, Compaq, Toshiba, Sharp and Apple, alongside software, hardware and old issues of specialist magazines.
The museum is at Petrou Spyropoulou 2 & Thessalonikis Street in Moschato, a residential suburb south of central Athens. Visits by individuals and school groups are arranged in advance with museum staff, so contact the museum before travelling. The collection is displayed indoors and is reached by public transport from the city centre.
Among the exhibits is a replica of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek device considered one of the oldest known computing tools in the world. The museum also holds a copy of the first computer mouse, designed by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, showing how far back the story of computing really goes.
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