Mimms Museum of Technology and Art

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Mimms Museum of Technology and Art
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Sun Microsystems computers at the museum
Mimms Museum of Technology and Art
EstablishedJuly 2019;5 years ago (2019-07)
Location Roswell, Georgia
Coordinates 34°02′19″N84°20′28″W / 34.038718°N 84.340978°W / 34.038718; -84.340978
Type Computer museum
Website mimmsmuseum.org

The Mimms Museum of Technology and Art (formerly the Computer Museum of America) is located in Roswell, Georgia and opened in July 2019 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon landing. It is the largest technology museum on the East Coast with the opening of Phase I and when completed will be among the largest in the world. [1]

The museum was founded by Lonnie Mimms, a commercial real estate developer and longtime computing artifact collector, [2] who originally operated an Apple pop up museum, and includes rare artifacts including a Cray-1, Apple I, Apple Lisa, a Pixar Image Computer, an Enigma, a Xerox Alto, a MITS Altair 8800 and more. The collection includes the contents of the former Bugbook Historical Computer Museum. While the museum shows many items, they are only a fraction of his 300,000 plus in the collection. [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ Greenfield, David (January 15, 2019). "Computer Museum of America Aims to Connect Technology and People". Automation World. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Schlosser, Kurt (September 12, 2024). "Paul Allen estate sells remaining Living Computers artifacts and systems to museum near Atlanta". GeekWire. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  3. ↑ Berrios, Laura. "A lifelong collector of digital artifacts is on a mission to document history". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN   1539-7459 . Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  4. ↑ Grochowski, Julia (December 27, 2019). "Computer museum opens doors to the future". Appen Media. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ Ranaivo, Yann (May 1, 2016). "Floyd man moves 30-ton collection of electronics to Atlanta suburb". The Roanoke Times. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ Lahkani, Asif (August 6, 2019). "The world's largest collection of vintage supercomputers is in Roswell, Georgia". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved October 28, 2020.


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