Museum Night at the Bolo Museum!
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Whether you are a computer genius or retro, whether you were born before the digital age or smack dab in the middle, come and do some sleuthing with us at the Bolo Museum on the EPFL campus in Lausanne. The Museum Night festival will take place on Saturday, 27th of September, from 2.00 p.m. to 2.00 a.m.
Computers, so familiar, unavoidable and essential, can also be...collected!
The adventure began in 1995 with a student who started collecting discarded computers at his parents' house. Yves Bolognini, after whom the Bolo Museum is named, eventually enlisted a team of enthusiastic volunteers and set about refurbishing old computers and placing them in inventory.
Since then, the Bolo Museum collection has grown to over two thousand computers plus software, peripherals, video game consoles, books and magazines from the time. This collection, unlike any other in the world, includes such recognized gems as the Amiga 500, the NeXT Computer, the Sinclair QL or the Atari 1040 ST.
For the Museum Night festival in Lausanne, on Saturday, 27th of September, the Bolo Museum will be organizing:
• "Demos" of the Commodore 64 and Amiga scene with DJ David, who will be mixing diskettes and playing colorful, funny and psychedelic clips, some of which tell stories. The older the machine, the more the demo requires programming prowess;
• The "Game Lounge", now twice as spacious, features video games that take us back to our childhood: Pac-Man, Pong and Donkey-Kong;
• The Documentary film "The Triumph of The Nerds: The Rise of Accidental
Empires", traces the history of computers from their invention up until the Internet boom;
• Guided tours of the exhibit "Programmed Disappearance: the Bolo Museum leads the investigation".
The theme of this 14th Museum Night festival is exploration. Take the quiz that guides you through the various stands. You may win a free tour of the Bolo Museum's main inventory…a trove as awe-inspiring as Ali Baba's cave!
Museum Bolo official website: www.bolo.ch