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Information Technology News UK Museum of Computing shuts up shop and puts history into storage
Information Technology News UK Museum of Computing shuts up shop and puts history into storage | UK Museum of Computing shuts up shop and puts history into storage |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Friday, 04 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Which begs the question, if the Museum of Computing is so
successful and such an important technological archive, why has it
closed? Actually make that two questions: will it ever open again?Featured Whitepaper
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The University of Bath is closing its Oakfield Campus, part of which it has allowed the museum to use as its base without charge for many years. Quite simply, the museum has been made homeless. Relying, as it does, on a team of dedicated volunteers the museum cannot up sticks and relocate outside the Swindon area. So despite having been offered a couple of suitable locations which would enable it to keep open, it has opted not to accept them. This seems to me to be folly. After all, surely retaining that technological archive is more important than retaining the same set of volunteers? Without wishing to diminish the work they have done, the importance of what they have achieved, the brutal truth is that new volunteers can always be found no matter the location. And so it is that the British are left without a national museum of computing. What's more, unless the curator, Simon Webb, finds the museum a new home within 18 months the future of the collection itself is in doubt. Because that is how long he has been given the use of the office space where the exhibits are in temporary storage. Is there an alternative in the new National Museum of Computing, housed in the historic Bletchley Park with its connections to wartime code breaking? Read on to find out... CONTINUED |
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