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Brilliant timing - I visited the National Museum of Computing (the computer museum that’s next to the actual Bletchley Park house) 2 weeks ago as Ruth Bourne was giving a talk while stood at the reconstructed Bombe. It was incredible to hear firsthand from someone who had been a part of this war effort.

She couldn’t even tell her mother what she worked on as the news would be “all round town within minutes”.

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Gee, that sounds like an interesting visit. And it looks like it opened in 2007. I'd bet the US' most notable computer museum is the CHM in California. It would be nice if we had a public museum for computing like the UK's. Although I suppose there might not be much difference in practice.

The National Cryptologic Museum[1] next to Fort Meade has an extensive collection of code-breaking devices and computers from various time periods, plus a library.

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/

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