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The Museum of Computing Machinery (Italian: Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo) is a computer museum in Pisa, Italy. The museum presents a collection of instruments for computing, including mechanical calculators, mainframe computers, and personal computers. [1] Located in the Cittadella Galileiana, it is part of the Museum System of the University of Pisa, [2]

Founded in 1993[3], the museum houses a collection of more than 10,000 items documenting the history of computing.[4] As its core pieces, it hosts the Pisa Electronic Calculator, the final version of the first Italian computer[5], Olivetti's Elea 6001 mainframe computer, and Elea 9104, also known as the Computer of the National Institute of Computing Applications.[6] Its exhibition about the history of personal computing shows the scientific and technological development of computing machinery for personal use.[7][8] The museum offers interactive experiences. [9]

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  1. ^ "Quei PC che hanno fatto la storia Nuova donazione arricchisce le collezioni del Museo del Calcolo" (PDF). La Nazione Pisa (in Italian). 2019-04-16. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2026-03-09.
  2. ^ "A Pisa Museo degli strumenti di calcolo torna nella sede storica - Notizie - Ansa.it". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 2025-06-04. Archived from the original on 2026-03-10. Retrieved 2026-03-09.
  3. ^ microcomputer 170 (in Italian). Technimedia (published February 1997). 1997. pp. 144–151.
  4. ^ "Verso la riapertura del Museo del Calcolo". www.quinewspisa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-03-09.
  5. ^ Cignoni, Giovanni A.; Gadducci, Fabio; Paci, Stefano (2015-02-11). "A Virtual Experience on the Very First Italian Computer". J. Comput. Cult. Herit. 7 (4): 21:1–21:23. doi:10.1145/2629484. ISSN 1556-4673.
  6. ^ "MUSEO DEGLI STRUMENTI PER IL CALCOLO - I Calcolatori - I Grandi Calcolatori". Fondazione Galileo Galilei (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2025-02-14. Retrieved 2026-03-09.
  7. ^ Cignoni, Giovanni Antonio; Gadducci, Fabio; Tarantino, Chiara (2016). "Il progetto di una sala sulla storia dell'informatica personale". Museologia Scientifica Memorie (15): 55–58 – via Arpi Unipi.
  8. ^ Cignoni, Giovanni A. (2013). Dall'aritmometro al PC: la storia del calcolo personale nelle collezioni del Museo degli strumenti per il calcolo [From the arithmometer to the PC: the history of personal computing in the collections of the Museum of computing machinery]. Quaderni della Fondazione Galilei (in Italian). Pisa: Pisa University Press. ISBN 978-88-6741-314-0.
  9. ^ Cignoni, Giovanni A.; Cappellini, Leonora; Mongelli, Tommaso (2015). "Games, from Engaging to Understanding: A Perspective from a Museum of Computing Machinery". In Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos; Divitini, Monica; Baalsrud Hauge, Jannicke; Jaccheri, Letizia; Malaka, Rainer (eds.). Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 9353. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 439–444. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24589-8_37. ISBN 978-3-319-24589-8.