CHM Developer Portal - CHM

Welcome to the Computer History Museum’s developer portal. Our Collections API offers direct access to catalog metadata about the world’s most significant collection of computing artifacts, empowering developers, researchers, and creators to explore, integrate, and build. Develop apps, services, stories, and more, all rooted in computing history.

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Our Use Cases

Whether you're building digital exhibits, training AI models, prototyping education tools, or integrating historical content into new platforms, our Collections API gives you the right tools.

For Creators

Use our API to discover data about CHM’s historical computing assets and build new experiences, stories , and more.

For Institutions

Integrate structured collections data from CHM via our reference architecture or shared discovery tools into your own platforms or workflows.

For Researchers

Access historical and real-time structured metadata , digitized content, and linked data for projects in technology and computing .

Looking for Images & Media?

Our Online Collection website is the best place to find images, videos, and PDFs for your projects or research. Take advantage of our advanced search tools to find exactly what you need or discover something new. Save objects or archive items to your album and make media requests directly to our collections team.

CHM Online Collection

About CHM

CHM is the leading museum decoding computing’s ongoing impact on our world. From the heart of Silicon Valley, we are uniquely positioned to cull the key lessons of the past and through our research, exhibits, events, and incomparable collection of computing artifacts create informed digital citizens empowered to make the choices that will shape a better future.

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