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A museum of Macintosh
Macseum is a digital museum of Apple’s golden hardware age — beige boxes, candy-colored gumdrops, and floating flat panels — with exhibits, stories, and the restoration craft that keeps them alive.
Gallery map · Main hall
The Lineage
Every machine on display, in one family tree — from the 1984 original to the lamp that smiled. Click any machine to step into its exhibit.
Scroll sideways on small screens · The tree is also the sitemap
Plan your visit
Three wings, one obsession
The Compact Wing
All-in-one beige boxes with a nine-inch soul. From the 1984 original through the Color Classic, these are the machines that defined what a Macintosh was.
6 machines on display →
The Portable Wing
Apple learns to travel — from a sixteen-pound "portable" with a lead-acid battery to the clamshell iBook you could carry like a handbag.
3 machines on display →
The Modern Era Wing
The comeback years. Translucent plastic, impossible shapes, and the machines that turned Apple from a cautionary tale back into a giant.
3 machines on display →
On display today
Curator's picks
Start with the greatest compact ever made, the machine that saved Apple, and the most beautiful failure in the company's history.
The rotunda · hands on
Spin a Macintosh
A rotating display case — drag to spin, scroll or pinch to zoom. The stand-in renders will be replaced with proper 3D scans.
The reading room
Stories & anecdotes
The tales behind the hardware — boardroom fights, single-airing commercials, and the three seconds of C major everybody recognizes.
Macseum Stories · No. 1 · 6 min read
The Ad That Almost Wasn't
Apple's board hated '1984' so much they tried to sell the airtime. It ran once — and became the most famous commercial ever made.
Macseum Stories · No. 2 · 7 min read
Why the Cube Failed
Apple built the most beautiful computer of its era, priced it against itself, and 'suspended' it within a year. The autopsy is a design-school classic.
Macseum Stories · No. 3 · 5 min read
The Sound of Startup
A tritone, an arpeggio, and one perfect C-major chord: how the Mac's boot sound became the most famous three seconds in computing.
The conservation department
Restoration & care
Own one of these machines? The museum's workshop guides cover the repairs and rituals that keep vintage Macs breathing.
Beginner
Retrobrighting: Reversing Yellowed Plastics
Why old Macs turn yellow, and how hydrogen peroxide and sunlight can bring back the platinum.
Advanced
Recapping: Saving a Logic Board from Its Own Capacitors
Every surface-mount electrolytic capacitor from the early nineties is leaking or about to. Here's how to assess the damage and replace them.
Beginner
The Collector's Guide to Sourcing Parts
Where vintage Mac parts actually come from: the marketplaces, the reproduction scene, the donor-machine math, and how not to overpay.
Visitor services
More than display cases
The passport
Collect all twelve
Every exhibit you visit stamps your Visitor Passport. Fill the book and the museum certifies you as a Docent.
Open your passport →The examination
Which Mac are you?
Six questions, one diagnosis, zero scientific oversight. Everyone corresponds to exactly one vintage Macintosh.
Take the quiz →The library
The Stacks are open
Original manuals catalogued by wing — plus the museum’s guide to keeping old Macs out of landfills.
Browse the Library →The gift shop
Being stocked
Prints, replica stickers, and curated parts links are on the way. Every museum exits through a gift shop.
Peek inside →12 exhibits · 3 stories · 3 guides · one startup chime