American Computer & Robotics Museum
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| Established | May 1990 |
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| Location | Bozeman, Montana |
| Coordinates | 45°40′43″N 111°02′27″W / 45.67861°N 111.04083°WCoordinates: 45°40′43″N 111°02′27″W / 45.67861°N 111.04083°W |
| Type | Computer museum |
| Website | www |
The American Computer & Robotics Museum, formerly known as the American Computer Museum, is a museum of the history of computing, communications, artificial intelligence and robotics that is located in Bozeman, Montana, USA. It was founded in May 1990 by Barbara and George Keremedjiev as a non-profit organization and will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in May 2015. The museum is also known as the American Computer & Robotics Museum. The museum was originally intended to have been located in Princeton, New Jersey, but the location was changed when the founders moved to Bozeman. It is likely the oldest extant museum dedicated to the history of computers in the world. The Computer Museum in Boston opened first, but it closed in 1999.
The museum's mission is:
"To collect, preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts and history of the information age."
In 1994 the American Computer Museum won the Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits from the Society for the History of Technology.
The American Computer Museum presents (in association with the College of Engineering, the College of Letters & Science, the Humanities Institute and the Computer Science Department of Montana State University) the George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards, named for Dr. George R. Stibitz, who first used relays for computation at Bell Laboratories in 1937 and the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Awards, named for Harvard Emeritus Professor Dr. Edward O. Wilson.
Items in the museum's collection include the following.
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