Uptown Waterloo was alight this past Saturday for the annual Lumen festival and the UW Computer Museum played a small part! Several artifacts from our collection were on loan to the Waterloo Public Library's Lumen display "The Lost Library."
"An immersive journey through a library that time forgot. Step into a library that feels strangely familiar—but not quite right. The Lost Library is an immersive, liminal-space experience where forgotten objects, flickering screens, strange messages, and fragments of the past come together to create a library suspended somewhere outside of time."
We're proud to have played a small part by providing an IBM PC and Apple Macintosh SE for the experience. As library staff noted, "visitors mentioned how happy, nostalgic, and even emotional it made them to see this equipment."
