Brought to life by the enthusiastic talks - Excellent visit, especially using the 2 for 1 National Rail scheme. The talks given by the enthusiastic guides on the Bombe and Colossus were really interesting and well explained. The complex way the codebreakers recreated the coding machines in order to decode the messages was almost understood by me! I really liked the panels that walked through the history of computing developments by year from the 1960’s albeit these were relatively brief and need updating beyond 2009. Some of the display cases needed a bit more TLC and maybe a bit more information. I loved the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum display case….and was able to play Jetpac!! We spent more than 3 hours at the museum and heartily recommend it if you are nostalgic for computer history and code breaking in WW 2.

Great museum - Great museum, go here first before visiting Bletchley Park. Traces the history of computing from the earliest beginnings, explains how Enigma and Lorenz were deciphered. Demonstrators are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the Enigma, Bombe, Colossus and more, with demonstrations of the rebuilt machines. Small cafe and shop with interesting merchandise.

Im going back! - Brilliant!! We loved it...lots of interactive stuff for small people and fascinating talks for big ones about enigma and the 2nd world war. This is the computing mudeum NOT the other one but this is BETTER

Trip Advisor rip-off. Buy ticket direct! - The museum is fantastic, but could be difficult for less maths savvy visitors. TripAdvisor ticket cost £21 but a ticket direct from the museum (also available on line) would only have cost £17.50. Certainly not a discount and not a ticket to Bletchly park as one might think. Infuriating!

Wonderful exhibits and staff alike - I took my daughter who is studying A Level Computer Science. You have a wonderful resource of computers but just as important are the volunteers, we greatly enjoyed the time and enthusiasm shared by Chris in the first-generation computer area but all staff were great. Appreciated the opportunity to be hands on with some of the consumer focused products.

Excellent day out. - We'd been looking forward to visiting Bletchley for a while and we weren't disappointed. The visit was extremely informative and helped tell this vital wartime story, bringing to life the characters, the challenges they faced and the service they gave for their country. All the staff at the venue were excellent, very helpful and courteous. The exhibits and the information boards were fantastic and really explained the technical challenges and the solutions in an easy to understand and informative way. Would really recommend a visit to Bletchley.

Tripadvisor sent me to the wrong place - The National Museum of Computing is well worth a visit whether you are interested in computers or not. The 4 stars reflected the fact that the AI Exhibition I booked the ticket for is not here. It is at Bletchley Park on the same site but costs twice as much for a season pass

Great for WWII / codebreaking stuff - uneven for the rest - Visited this museum today, which I've been wanting to do for ages. I enjoyed my day there, but I think it's important to note that the focus of the museum and where it is at it's best is definitely the WWII codebreaking effort, including the Bombe, Tunny, Colossus etc. I was able to hear some fascinating talks and see the machines demonstrated in person, and I loved all that stuff. The rest of the museum was interesting but rather weaker by comparison - there was lots of stuff around, although it was often displayed in a somewhat haphazard fashion and the amount of information was lacking. There are some real treasures in there - such as an Apple Lisa, a Next Cube, various interesting Sharp machines, an Osborne 1 and many more. However most were not working and there was little information about them. It was great to look around the mainframes / large computers room and there were some examples of working machines although it was hard always to really understand what you were looking at. There were some volunteers around though who were helpful and enthusiastic. The 'Home Computer' section was fun to look round and there were some working examples but overall you didn't learn a whole lot about the way computing developed after the war. Unfortunately some of the other galleries felt a little unloved and in some cases rather out of date (although this pretty much inevitable, but I was amused to see a teardown of a 'modern PC' including a floppy disk and CD-ROM drive). So I would definitely recommend a visit, but to get the best out of it you'd have to be primarily interested in all the WW II stuff (which is of course consistent with being on the Bletchley Park site). I was, and I was very interested in all the talks and demonstrations of those, but if you are looking for a museum focused on more recent history including home computers you might want to try elsewhere.

Gem of a museum - Really enjoyed our time at the museum especially the old games, re lived our youth. Purchased the ticket through TripAdvisor thinking is was a ticket to Bletchley park was a bit misleading but worked out well in the end because we wouldn't have gone to this museum and missed a treat.

Great collection - The staff are great, the exhibits well laid out with a really good range from old calculators to the ICL main frame. Make no mistake this is a great place and we'll either a visit, but you will get more out of the visit if you already have some idea about the history. Please note this is mainly the history of Computing in Britain, which is fine by me ;-) The only disappointing part for me was I was hoping to see more in the DEC area.