Mimms Museum of Technology and Art

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Mimms Museum of Technology and Art
Sun Microsystems computers at the museum
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EstablishedJuly 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07)
LocationRoswell, Georgia
Coordinates34°02′19″N 84°20′28″W / 34.038718°N 84.340978°W / 34.038718; -84.340978
TypeComputer museum
Websitemimmsmuseum.org

The Mimms Museum of Technology and Art (formerly the Computer Museum of America) is located in Roswell, Georgia and opened in July 2019[1] to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon landing. It is the largest technology museum on the East Coast with the opening of Phase I and when completed will be among the largest in the world.[2]

The museum was founded by Lonnie Mimms, a commercial real estate developer and longtime computing artifact collector,[3] who originally operated an Apple pop up museum, and includes rare artifacts including a Cray-1, Apple I, Apple Lisa, a Pixar Image Computer, an Enigma, a Xerox Alto, a MITS Altair 8800 and more. The collection includes the contents of the former Bugbook Historical Computer Museum. While the museum shows many items, they are only a fraction of his 300,000 plus in the collection.[4][5][6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "The Launch". Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. Retrieved May 31, 2025.
  2. ^ Greenfield, David (January 15, 2019). "Computer Museum of America Aims to Connect Technology and People". Automation World. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  3. ^ Schlosser, Kurt (September 12, 2024). "Paul Allen estate sells remaining Living Computers artifacts and systems to museum near Atlanta". GeekWire. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  4. ^ Berrios, Laura. "A lifelong collector of digital artifacts is on a mission to document history". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN 1539-7459. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  5. ^ Grochowski, Julia (December 27, 2019). "Computer museum opens doors to the future". Appen Media. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  6. ^ Ranaivo, Yann (May 1, 2016). "Floyd man moves 30-ton collection of electronics to Atlanta suburb". The Roanoke Times. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  7. ^ Lahkani, Asif (August 6, 2019). "The world's largest collection of vintage supercomputers is in Roswell, Georgia". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
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