World’s Largest Heinz Nixdorf Computer Museum
Computer museum was opened in 1996 by Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl. Its collection of first computing machines was collected by the pioneer of the industry Heinz Nixdorf. A 6000 sq. m museum entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest computer museum in the world. Its exhibition is dedicated to five thousand years of informational technology development: from the appearance of written language in 3000 B.C. to the 21st century.
A clay plate with inscriptions dating back to 2350-2100 B.C. is kept in the computer museum. Here you will find a computing machine that Wilhelm Schickard made for Johannes Kepler in 1623; a replica of Leibniz’s step reckoner; the first mass produced calculator of the middle of the 19th century; the first mass produced type writer of 1878 (for example, Friedrich Nietzsche used this model); Morse telegraph; ciphering machine “Enigma”. There are over two thousand items in the museum.
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