Bolo Museum Virtual Tour
© Sébastien Monachon
Want to visit the Bolo Museum, but a trip to Lausanne (Switzerland) is not on the cards? You can be there in a few clicks. A virtual tour now allows you to visit the Programmed Disappearance exhibition. You will also see many old computers in operation.
Located in the premises of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Bolo Museum has been safeguarding and highlighting IT assets for many years now. The Programmed Disappearance exhibition tells a fun and challenging tale of how the computer, although omnipresent, tends to be forgotten.
Will the computer disappear? Yes, because the tiny, immaterial, camouflaged, hybridized, humanized computer is present everywhere; albeit unbeknownst to us, sometimes even invisible, but omniscient. It is indeed difficult to imagine a world without computers, because it is present in every aspect of our society. It is deployed everywhere, ranging from micro-sensors which are invisible to the naked eye to high performance machines, occupying an entire room. This new virtual tour allows you to browse the history of computing in a few clicks and then to continue your exploration by visiting the Bolo Museum "in real life".
For this occasion, the Association of Friends of the Bolo Museum (aBCM) has released some of its reserved treasures to the museum: Amiga 500, NeXT Computer, Sinclair QL, Atari 1040 ST, and many other machines and objects waiting to be discovered along the 21 meters wall on which is spread the Programmed Disappearance exhibition, in the heart of the Bolo Museum.
The photography studio, ScenicView, led by Olivier Wavre and Sylvain Froidevaux, has made more than thirty 360° view panoramas. You can take this virtual tour directly on Google.
You can also keep a tangible souvenir of your visit by ordering a copy of Programmed Disappearance, a richly illustrated book with a foreword by Martin Vetterli, president of the National Research Council (SNSF) and professor at the IC Faculty.
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