Muzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki, Katowice

Museum of the History of Computers and Information Technology - a private museum dedicated to the history of computers and information technology established in Katowice, Poland on December 12, 2012.

In the permanent seat, next to the train station in Katowice at 1 Oddziałów Młodzieży Powstańczej Square, temporary thematic exhibitions are presented, such as "The colorful world of iMacs" or "The world of game consoles".

The museum initially presented its collections in the building of the College of Mechatronics. In 2014 it moved to a building on Oddziałów Młodzieży Powstańczej Square. In 2016 the exhibition was opened in the building of the cultural institution "Katowice - Miasto Ogrodów".

The exhibits comprising the collection come both from the Museum's own purchases and from numerous donations. Among the donors can be found private individuals, but also institutions such as: CPU Service sp. z o.o. Kroll Ontrack, MOSiR Zabrze, IBM Serwis, Huta Pokój, and many others.

The exhibit is divided into three time periods: 1960s-70s, 1980s-90s, and 1990s.

On 25 October 2016, a permanent exhibition was opened in the building of the Katowice City of Gardens Cultural Institution named after Krystyna Bochenek. The exhibition presents a cross-sectional historical outline of the development of the field of IT, also presenting the achievements of domestic companies producing IT equipment. The entire exhibition is interactive. Among the exhibits there is also an ODRA computer with a 1305 central processing unit in a recreated Computing Centre, and over 240 different interactive workstations. In the exhibit you can trace the development of mobile hardware, interactive entertainment, 8, 16, and 32-bit computers, learn about the evolution of memory media, and touch computers such as: Elwro 800 junior, Elwro 804PC, Elwro 801 AT, Meritum, ComPan, Bosman, SMC-10, PRS 4. A rarity is the remnant of the ODRA 1304 computer donated by the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, the only one in Poland. The facility has active 8 track tape memories manufactured by Japanese companies Fujitsu, HP, Meramat, IBM, DIGITAL.

The Museum, as the only one in Poland, is conducting commissioning and restoration work on computer systems of the ODRA 1305 series, under the leadership of engineer Romuald Jakóbc. The process of restoring the systems to operation, has been called "Operation Thanasis". On 26.04.2019, the EXEC was launched on a unit donated by the AGH University of Science and Technology of Krakow with serial number 384, manufactured in 1985 and shut down on 1 May 2010 at the Lublin Tatary railway station.

Since 2018, the museum has established a partnership with The National Museum of Computing from the UK, through the collaboration, among other things, restoration work is being carried out on the ODRA 1305 computer software.

Works on a new exhibition devoted to computers produced in ZEG and EMAG TYCHY are in progress.

Exhibits on display will include the SMC-10, MiSter Z80/ComPan 2.

The museum as of 2017 has 3943 computers.

From April to December 2020, a weekly live program called "An Hour or Two" was broadcast on the museum's YouTube channel.