Centre for Computing History
Museums & Science Centres · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16☔ Rainy-day friendlyEducationalBirthday partiesSchool holiday activitiesMemberships availableSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Birthday parties
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Centre for Computing History is a hands-on museum exploring how computers became personal. Based in Cambridge, it houses over 1,300 computers, 352 game consoles, 15,295 video games and thousands of peripherals, manuals, magazines and documents. Visitors can explore exhibitions on computers by date, the Leo Project, Viva computer, game consoles and calculators, alongside a programme of activities and events. The museum runs group visits and a learning programme for schools, and hosts gaming parties and retro gaming events.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Audiobook or story CD
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Bottle or beaker
- Travel sickness bands
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