The Computer Museum has been operating in Boston since 1979, and you can visit it today with your New England car rental. Today, much of the museum is found in California, but some of the exhibits still remain at the Boston Museum of Science.

Museum history

The Computer Museum got its start in 1975 with a display of circuit and memory hardware in the lobby of the Digital Equipment Corporation’s main building in Maynard, Massachusetts. In September 1979, the Digital Computer Museum was founded in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and received non-profit status in 1982. At this time, it changed its name to the Computer Museum and relocated to Museum wharf in Boston, sharing space with the Boston Children’s Museum. The Museum was focused on activities for children, including a two-story walk through of a computer, a virtual fish tank and robot theater. When the museum was in Boston, it had the largest collection of robots. In 1999, the Boston Computer Museum was closed, with many of the exhibits moving to Mountain View, California and the other parts of the collection moving to the Museum of Science.

Boston Museum of Science

When you are here with your car rental New England, you will find the Computer Museum is now part of the Museum of Science in Boston. While much of the Computer Museum was moved to Silicon Valley, some of the exhibits can still be found here. For example, there is an exhibit on the computing revolution, which tells the history of computing through hands-on exhibits. There is also Cahners Computer Place, which has educational video games that you can play. This museum has over 500 interactive exhibits and live presentations on a daily basis. Aside from the computer museum, there are exhibits about electricity (including the largest Van de Graaff generator), updates in science and technology, a to-scale solar system model, engineering challenges, and much more.

Exploring science

The Current Science and Technology section of the Museum of Science covers a wide range of topics that you can see when you are here with your New England car rental. Some of the topics here include health sciences, genomics, immunology, the brain, behavior, biotechnology, Earth and space, nanotechnology, information technology, engineering, robotics, and much more. There are daily presentations in the Museum Exhibit Halls that cover the latest developments in these fields. If you are at home and would like to see some of these presentations, there are also podcasts and videocasts that you can catch on their website.

Plan your visit

When you visit with your car rental New York, you will find the Museum of Science is open Saturday through Thursday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. During the summer (July through Labor Day), they are open until 7 p.m. Saturday through Thursday, instead of closing at 5 p.m. For more information about special exhibits and events when you are here, you can check out their website to find out what is going on with the daily schedule. Tickets are $20 for adults (12+), $18 for seniors (60+), and $17 for kids (3-11). There are discounts available for purchases of the exhibit and shows. You can save up to 29% depending on how many shows you see when you are here with your rental car New England. There is on-site parking here as well, on a first-come, first-served basis.

When you are here with your New England car rental, you will find the Computer Museum has changed a lot since it was first opened in the 1970s. Today, much of the museum is located in Silicon Valley, but some of the exhibits still remain in the Museum of Science in Boston.