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Northwest computer museum is open !

Gary C

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Hi everyone

NWCM is now open :)

Its in Leigh which is near Manchester UK so if your in the area, drop in and say hello

We have quite a collection (but any donations are gratefully received) and our aim is to make them accessible to visitors to learn and explore.

Cafe, Museum and Classroom setup with 10 working BBC B's (on a good day, they are keeping me busy)

Website https://www.nwcomputermuseum.org.uk/ (When its displayed, enter the Konami code for some blasting fun :) )

Address is

4th Floor
Leigh Spinners Mill
Park Lane
Leigh
WN7 2LB
 
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Hi Gary - good to know, I have been lurking for a while wondering when the museum would open. I hope to make it down there in a few weeks' time.

One thing that might help to boost visitor numbers is a more informative website - at the moment there is little more than a nicely animated landing page. Not everyone uses or likes social media, so just having a presence on Facebook, Twitter etc is not really enough.
 
One thing that might help to boost visitor numbers is a more informative website - at the moment there is little more than a nicely animated landing page. Not everyone uses or likes social media, so just having a presence on Facebook, Twitter etc is not really enough.
I also think a better web site would help. Will probably pop in Sunday after visiting


Dave
 
Hi Gary - good to know, I have been lurking for a while wondering when the museum would open. I hope to make it down there in a few weeks' time.

One thing that might help to boost visitor numbers is a more informative website - at the moment there is little more than a nicely animated landing page. Not everyone uses or likes social media, so just having a presence on Facebook, Twitter etc is not really enough.
I just fix things :)

But will pass on the comments.
 
As a rough guideline / template the website eventually needs to be along similar lines to that of the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge:


Obviously it takes a lot of time and work to get a website up to that level of content, especially all the material under the 'Exhibits' tab, but that is the sort of website they ultimately need to aim for.
 
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