5 /5 Lon Welsh: I would suggest that you go to Bletchley Park, which is immediately adjacent, sharing a parking lot, before you come here.
This is gonna provide a lot of amplification and it’s all going to make a lot more sense if you’ve got the historical back drop of Bletchley Park first.
I think Bletchley Park is gonna be more interesting to the historian or the person that tracks a little bit more on the human side.
This museum is going to be more interesting to the engineer or IT person that likes to get a little bit more into the weeds of how you break a code and how do you develop a computer for the first time?
I enjoyed both of them quite a bit and I think they fit together really well.
You could do them both on the same day, but it would be pretty mentally taxing! Take a break in the middle.
I think if your budget one and a half to 2 1/2 hours that should be enough for most people to get through the exhibits and watch some demonstrations
This is an example we’re watching. The demonstrations actually is pretty much the reason why you’re gonna wanna come. Otherwise you just walk into a room you see an old machine from the 1940s you can look at it for me and say wow that looks complicated. And that’s about all that you get out of it. However, at least on the day I was there, they have a volunteer in multiple rooms that will spend about a half an hour, explaining the problem, walking through the solution, and the story of the person that worked on it, why this machine was a solution of the problem. And then they show you how the machine did it. The machines have been restored and they work! It’s absolutely amazing. Watching these stories come to life when they show you the demonstrations.