A vintage computing centre in Freiburg, Germany. They preserve hardware and software from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and have it set up working so visitors can use it.
Fediverse address (in German):
@3rz@freiburg.social
Tagged: Museums
bitsavers
Runs an enormous online archive of computing history material at the bitsavers website, and is software curator at the Computer History Museum in California, USA.
Fediverse address:
@bitsavers@oldbytes.space
The European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science
A contemporary art museum in the Netherlands.
Fediverse address (in Dutch and English):
@EICAS@mastodon.art
Museum of Portable Sound
Dedicated to exhibiting, preserving and researching non-musical sounds as museum objects. The collection is accessible through online interactive video sessions which can be booked in advance (in-person visits are also possible in the UK at Southsea and London).
Fediverse address:
@museumofportablesound@toot.community
Wo meine Sonne scheint
An artists’ initiative based in the Netherlands and Germany which helps organise exhibitions of new and experimental art.
Fediverse address (in English, Dutch and German): @womeinesonnescheint@mstdn.social
Auschwitz Memorial
The memorial and museum at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp built during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Over a million people were murdered by the Nazis at the camp during the Second World War, most of them civilians including children. The memorial functions as a reminder of what can happen, and campaigns for it never to happen again.
Fediverse address:
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world
Beeld en Geluid
The Netherlands Sound & Vision museum. They have a massive archive of thousands of videos available on the Fediverse.
Fediverse address (in Dutch):
@nisv@peertube.beeldengeluid.nl
Norbert Holstein
Botanist and plant curator at the Natural History Museum in London. Also a fan of fungi.
Fediverse address:
@dr_norb@fediscience.org
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Art museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Has a huge collection covering all periods of art, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Fediverse address:
@boijmans@mastodon.social
Benjamin L. Clark
Curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum, dedicated to the creator of the Peanuts comic strip featuring Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
Fediverse address:
@benjclark@mastodon.online
Glasgow Women’s Library
Lending library, archive of important materials related to women, and provider of support services to women. The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history.
Fediverse address:
@womenslibrary@mastodon.scot