Frontal view of the reconstructed Colossus at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park
National Museum of Computing entrance

The National Museum of Computing

Bletchley Park

A museum of computing history in Block H at Bletchley Park, home to the Colossus codebreaking computer.

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Ultra Avenue, Bletchley, MK3 6GY

Quick facts

It is housed in Block H, a building rented from the Bletchley Park Trust, and opened in 2007.

Its collection runs from 1940s codebreaking machines through mainframes to personal computers.

Colossus, designed by Tommy Flowers and first used operationally in February 1944, is described as the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.

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