After a successful fund-raising campaign, the British Centre for Computing History (www.computinghistory.org.uk), founded in 2006, was re-opened in Cambridge on 27 July, in a ground area of nearly 300 square metres, a site larger than the previous facility. Prior to being moved to Cambridge, the institution was hosted in Haverhill (Suffolk) for four years, where the size of the exhibition space did not allow for as many visitors as expected despite the successful exhibitions staged there. The management says that, all in all, the concept of such a museum (presenting the information age, most of all the IT history of the last 50 years) has been justified, if the right circumstances are provided.

Visitors can try various IT devices including vintage computers (ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Atari, etc.), game consoles and calculators as well as the latest tools such as Raspberry Pi. More than 20 thousand exhibits have been put on display.

In addition to presenting the history of computing, the museum hopes to be able to encourage children to take up programming and IT studies. For this end, the museum will organise a road show introducing the basics of computer science and coding to children in an unusual and inspiring setting. The Centre for Computing History entered into a partnership with Google to implement the above initiative. Naturally, it is not only Google but various other companies (for instance Samsung) as well that give support to the institution, which is open between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Wednesday to Sunday, with Mondays and Tuesdays reserved for special bookings. Entry fees are ?5 for adults and ?4 for children.