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An exhibit of more than 1,500 typewriters preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.
This purpose-built museum in Italy’s Bolzano region holds over 1,500 typewriter models in its permanent collection. The museum was built in honor of Peter Mitterhofer, one of the machine’s many accredited inventors. With the help of typewriter collector Kurt Ryba’s donation “for all times and as an inalienable cultural heritage,” the museum displays its most polished examples as part of a vast chronology of key-punching and space bar slapping. Spanning 4 floors, the museum provides a unique insight into how things were typed before repetitive strain injury was conceived.
