Bolo Museum

Musée Bolo is the Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games. It occupies Building INF of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Faculty of Computer Science and Communications. The collection was begun in 1995 by the engineer, Yves Bolognini and it became a museum in 2002, now run by the foundation Mémoires Informatiques. The diverse collections include several thousand objects, including computers, peripherals, accessories, software, magazines and tutorials. Among the computers are awe-inspiring supercomputers from the 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented, for example by the Lilith workstation created at the Zurich Polytechnic School, for which one of the first mice was developed at the Lausanne Polytechnic School. An important collection of games and video consoles is also represented. The museum in laid out for visitors to explore the collections in any order.