HomeComputerMuseum Helmond
Flyctory.com Pros
- Great collection of home computers
- Very interactive, large variety of machines are working and you can use them
- Museum includes repair service
Flyctory.com Cons
- The place is a bit of freaky... But I love it!
A museum for home computers feels like a technical reflection of my biography. I personally started with an Atari 800 XL and explored the bits and bytes. I had an Amiga 500, owned several PCs and felt to enjoy more or less the whole history of video gaming which happened in parallel. The HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond near Eindhoven, Netherlands, has been found in 2018 and is already quite a successful place in the small city. As the owner and driver of the museum, Bart van den Akker, is a legendary member of the Weird Al Yankovic community, I just had to visit that place. My visit took place in July 2020.
This museum won my “Hidden Gem” award in my Best Ones 2020

HomeComputerMuseum Helmond – Location & Admission
The museum is located right in the heart of Helmond. During my visit on a Saturday, I could stroll around the lovely Helmond market before the place was opening. From Helmond station (which is connected by Intercity trains to Venlo and Eindhoven)
Admission was 8.88 EUR for adults. You can stay in the museum the whole day for that fee. The museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday to Saturday, the HomeComputerMuseum Helmond is open from 11:00 to 18:00 hrs and Sunday 12:00-17:00.


HomeComputerMuseum – Business Concept
In fact, the HomeComputerMuseum is built on three pillars. The museum itself, which is really focusing on home computers (in contrast to huge calculation machines, which were not suitable for home use) is, of course, the most obvious one. Due to that special focus, the museum is focusing on machines sold 1975 and thereafter.
As the team needs to maintain all the historic machines, they have a huge expertise in computer repair / maintenance, which is the second pillar of financing. This also includes that they sell computers, which they have repaired / partially repaired but cannot use for the exhibition. Finally, the Helmond place is an integrative / inclusive project, as it gives people who suffer from mental / physical limitations a place to work (and they are really doing a good job there).

I of course concentrate myself on the touristic element of the place, i.e. the home computer museum itself. The website of the museum gives a full list of their computers in display (which would blow the volume of my posting).
HomeComputerMuseum Helmond – The Visit
The first thing which you recognize when you enter the museum: it is just huge! The place could easily be a medium size furniture shop – overall, there are around 200 to 300 machines in display. The rules are easy: all machines are plugged and running – if they are not running, you can try to start them – but there is likely a reason for them to be shut down. Only very few items are in display. You are entitled to touch and try out anything you like (according to Bart, the only exception to that is the staff). Practically all machines are documented with a short background story on displays. One side is in Dutch and the rear side is in English, so that you can learn a lot about the computers. There is sufficient seating (even though some of the seats are a bit improvised, e.g. former school furniture). There are lockers for ordinary sized bags / backpacks near the reception desk.






The first area, which is quite close to the reception / welcome desk, is featuring video game consoles and arcades. There is also an arcade machine which is emulating multiple consoles. The museum features a great selection of machines, including legends like the Saba Fairchild. I spent most of the time playing legendary Duck Hunt on the NES (which is quite a cool opportunity, as it requires a tube TV). You can try out 1980’s classics, but also comparably modern machines like the X-Box. Racing fans may go for a duel of Sega Rally on the video game arcade.






After that warming up with joypads, arcade controllers and Duck Hunt guns, you are about to dive into the beginning of home computers. As said, the focus of the museum is really on computers you used at home, so there are only a few exceptions of large machines, which played a role in Dutch computer history. It is hard to point out individual computers here, I loved to see an MITS Altair 8800 and the portable version of the Commodore C-64, the SX-64.





There are also masses of computers from the “golden era of home computing”. The museum is especially strong in Atari and – even more – in Commodore machines, where the collection feels to be quite complete. The Apple collection is also massive, including computers from the Apple IIe and III to the iMac G3,













All the machines you saw so far are up and running. So they fall under the “Sit Down and Try Out” policy definitely. However, there are also some amazing pieces of computer history, which are “just” on display or which cannot be brought to public access like handheld consoles. You should definitely have a look towards the toilets of the museum – the storages, which are next to it are loaded with gems of the home computer history, which cannot be displayed at all for various reasons.




HomeComputerMuseum Helmond – Services
As you may spent some hours in the museum – at least if you are a nerd like me – it is good to know that the museum also operates a small bar which is serving drinks and even some limited bites.

HomeComputerMuseum Helmond – My View
The HomeComputerMuseum Helmond is just amazing. First of all, it is huge – especially if you bear in mind it is privately driven. The collection itself is mind-blowing – apart from the very early machines, which have been sold before I was born, it really feels like a technical biography of my life. The fact that you can touch the machines, that you can explore them and play with them (or code) just makes it perfect. So good, so interactive – if you are into computer technology, you should add Helmond on your travel bucket list… But arrive early and allow for a lot of time, you might sit down everywhere and enjoy your memories as much as I did. Of course, it is a Flyctory.com Top Pick!
The owner of the HomeComputerMuseum is a friend of mine. I know Bart since a long time as the webmaster of the international Weird Al Yankovic Forum. This did not influence my judgement on the exhibition.
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Covid-19 felt to be a good opportunity for Esa Holopainen to go solo. Instead of releasing new stuff with Amorphis, ...
The National Monument Camp Vught - or Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch, which has been the German name during the Nazi era - is ...
A debut on Flyctory.com: this week, I am featuring a very special interview in my Spotlight interview category. While I ...
Even though the Netherlands capitulated against Germany just after a few days under attack during World War II, they have ...
The Ferris wheel right over the North Sea - the SkyView at the Pier in Scheveningen is definitely the most ...
In 1944, the 101st Airborne Division, called Screaming Eagles, landed North of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. As part of the Operation Market ...
How could a visit of Rotterdam be complete without having a look into the harbor? The Port of Rotterdam is ...
I am a huge fan of the works of the Dutch artist M.C. Escher, wo worked a lot with geometric ...
Visiting some places around Utrecht and aiming for a relaxing weekend in the Netherlands, my wife and I had a ...
Even if you likely think of their home brand when you think about Heineken - but in fact their beer ...
There are just a few hotel stay reviews left which I haven't covered on Flyctory.com yet after overnights became practically ...
The blue and white porcelain from Delft is a globally well-known brand. While my wife and I spent time in ...
If you are on a city trip, you likely fancy to buy a multi-attraction ticket. There are global companies like ...
In late September 2020, I felt to explore the region of Arnhem, majorly in order to explore some of the ...
The Aviodrome in Lelystad in the Netherlands calls itself a Luchtvaart Themapark - an "Aviation Theme Park". You can definitely spent as ...
After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
During August 2020, my wife and I took a trip to Rotterdam and The Hague / Den Haag. Due to ...
The Louwman collection, nowadays driven by the son of founder Pieter Louwman, Evert, is a private collection of oldtimer cars ...
Undoubtedly, Amsterdam is not just a beautiful city, but also a place of rich cultural history. One example for that ...
Some cities are economically dominated by one big company player (which can have good and bad effects). Eindhoven in the ...
During a summer visit to Amsterdam, Covid-19 reduced the number of tourists that significantly that practically all attractions I visited ...
There are not too many museums about African history and culture on the European continent. Thus, the Afrika Museum in ...
We did not have too much time in Rotterdam when we visited the region in late August 2020. My wife ...
During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
I am not really a person who is into paintings and other graphic arts, but without spoiling this review too ...
Going to Rijksmuseum, having the Heineken Experience, daring a look into the Red Light district... For most first-timers in Amsterdam, ...
Sometimes you see hordes of people, locals and tourists, in front of a small booth at the end of Voetboogstraat ...
During a July 2020 trip through the Netherlands, I had two nights at the NH Collection Hotel Eindhoven Centre, right ...
One for the most positive surprises of my early July 2020 trip to Amsterdam and Eindhoven was the Channel Museum ...
After my wife and I stayed at the wonderful beautiful Vliegtuigsuite, we visited the safari park Beekse Bergen near Tilburg ...
With the Covid-19 situation easing and travel restrictions more and more lifted, I was happy to have a trip to ...
At least in the Cologne area where I live, Castle Arcen in the Netherlands, close to the German border, is ...
The city of Venlo in the Netherlands is maybe some sort of perfect illustration of profiting from the Schengen Agreement, ...
It's already about a month since my last Country Music Picks in May 2020. Covid-19 has been the dominating topic ...
Some of my hobbies are travelling, civil aviation incl. historic planes and hotels - so having a plane which has ...
It feels a bit like Ilse deLange wants to push towards the German music market nowadays: the Dutch country and ...
I ran into the music of Sylvia Aimee, a Dutch country music artist, some one year ago. The quality of ...
Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled ...
Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound ...
10th January 2020 had a couple of interesting album releases. DeWolff from the Netherlands are playing an interesting mix of ...
I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
While there is a boom in local modern country music in the United Kingdom, there is still quite some development ...
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
DJK Holzbüttgen close to Dusseldorf and Cologne is an amazing masterpiece of local sports club management. Having started with very ...
After having this category of postings since quite some time, I decided to have more regular country music picks in ...
After an ICE high speed train ride from Cologne, I chose the ibis Amsterdam Zentrum as my overnight during my ...
While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
On the road to Neuchatel, Hungary and Netherlands had quite bad positions, but at least the advantage that they knew ...
After the Netherlands showed a good fight against Slovakia, they had to compete against likely the strongest team in their ...
Slovakia had their third match on Friday evening, concluding the first round of matches of Qualification Group 4. Being nominally ...