Computer History Museum

Dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history, the Computer History Museum houses one of the largest collections of computing artifacts in the world, including computer hardware, ephemera, photographs, moving images, documents, software and some of the very first computers from the 1940s and 1950s.

The museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission packages range from $12-$40, but children 12 and younger are free. 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View; 650-810-1010; computerhistory.org