The Paessler 2018 Bytes Festivals starts on 29 March 2018 with lots of hands-on events and workshops until 8 April 2018. Sci-fi, code-breaking, digital music, Station X, coding and learning are all in the mix.
The Bombe will stay on the Bletchley Park Estate thanks to the huge success of the Crowdfunder that raised £60,000, exceeding the original target of £50,000. Donations are still coming in.
Three Witches – one scientific and two artistic -- have been brought together for a public display at TNMOC until the end of April 2018. Never before have these three Witches been seen together.
A race of computers spanning eight decades was won by a BBC micro:bit operated and programmed by a nine-year old student. The Grand Digital computer race held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of TNMOC.
TNMOC launches a Crowdfunder to keep the reconstructed Bombe on the Bletchley Park Estate. The original Turing-Welchman Bombes were used to decipher enemy Enigma messages during World War II.
There's an unusual perspective on computer at the Museum in February as two huge paintings created 30 years apart are displayed near their original inspiration – the WITCH, the world’s oldest working digital computer.
The 2018 Museum Relaxed Opening sessions for people with autism and related special needs are to be sponsored by Paessler AG throughout 2018. Six new dates are announced.
Taking control is the theme of the fun-filled 3-day Bytes Festival on 28, 29, 30 December 2017. Parent, daughters & sons can code robots, program Minecraft & experiment with the future of voice control.
Having defied the scrapyard on three occasions, the world’s oldest working digital computer is celebrating the 5th anniversary of its latest life as s popular educational tool in TNMOC's Learning Programme.