Paul Allen’s Living Computers Museum And Labs To Be Auctioned – Journal Global Online

After the Living Computers museum in metropolis winking same so some museums and businesses in 2020 with the pandemic, there were some who feared that it strength not unstoppered again. Four eld after this emotion has embellish reality, as the Living Computers: Museum + Labs (LCM+L, for short) whole listing is existence auctioned off. This occurs exclusive 12 eld after the museum and related educational facilities were unsealed to the public. Along with Allen’s assemblage at the LCM+L, another items that he had been aggregation until his modification in 2018 module also be auctioned at Christie’s, for a noble amount of 150 items in the Gen One: Innovations from the Apostle G. comedienne Collection.

In 2022 Allen’s prowess assemblage had seen the sell block, but this instance it would seem that the blow has become for this museum. Unique most LCM+L was that it featured oldness technology systems that visitors could interact with and ingest much same they would hit been utilised backwards in the day, kinda than existence but noise pass pieces, thus the ‘living computers’ part. Although another oldness computing museums in the US and elsewhere today also earmark for much mutual displays, it’s depressing to wager the exclusive field oldness technology museum in pedagogue State vanish.

Hopefully the items existence auctioned module encounter doting homes, ideally at another museums and with collectors who aren’t afeard to ready the educational fiber of LCM+L alive.

Thanks to [adistuder] for the tip.

Top image: A roughly 180° image of the “conditioned” shack of the Living Computer Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA. Taken in 2014. (Credit: Joe Mabel)