Intel Museum

For a free museum you can't really complain. I would not go out of my way for this but we happen to be in the area and my son wanted to stop by. It has a lot of information and history about computers. My son enjoyed the interactive exhibits. If you're walking by quickly through everything, you can finish the museum in 20-30 minutes. If you're actually reading everything and the interactive exhibits you could finish in an hour.

How exciting is the life of a microprocessor? Not very. But the Intel Museum does a great job of presenting one of the marvels of the 20th Century. This museum is free and takes at most an hour. It presents the history of Intel, it's founder, a history of their processor chips and has interactive screens and areas where kids and adults can get more hands on experience of what goes into making a chip physically and on the programming side. There numerous screen swipe stations that are popular the kids. While you're trying to explain how you first used a 486 chip in the 1990s in your computer, your kids have wandered off trying to spell their name at the 1's and 0's display. The back corner of the museum covers how chips are manufactured and explains and shows the clean rooms of chip manufacturing floors. There are various classic products displayed that have used Intel processors, from computers, to watches to video game machines. The staff was helpful, as they came by to check on us multiple times to see if we had any questions. If you arrange for a guided tour, that is very helpful because the guide simplifies the explanation of all the technical stuff. They host kids and school tours and they have a glass walled meeting room in the middle where they can do fun tech workshops with kids.The museum store has a variety of Intel shirts, jackets, hats, water bottles, pens, pins, bags, toys. The prices seemed very reasonable, at just a bit above cost. There were $10 t-shirts, $4 pens, $3 pins, things that would cost double at other tech onsite stores (like Apple and Google).If you want to get some tech history in for free or don't have time to cover the Computer History Museum that's 7 miles away, stop by the Intel Museum. One caveat... It's only open on weekdays.***Hot Tip*** Go in the main entrance lobby seating area and sit on the couches. Then look up. You'll see a giant every-angle-of-the-ceiling video of their manufacturing facilities. It's quite relaxing and therapeutic.

Very well thought out museum highlighting the history of Intel and the leaps and bounds they have come from. The organization and layout is very intuitive to follow, the path is all chronologically ordered and details for each and every item on exhibit. The staff are very kind, patient, and pumped up to get visitors started experiencing the location. The whole exhibit can be experienced in an hour. The entrance is to the side of the main lobby. There is a gift shop as well with unique small crafts and outfits and accessories. There is a visitors area parking area and the crowd fluctuates depending on time of day and any large tours that are making a stop. This is a free museum and you can do a self guided tour or a guided tour by the staff. There are some neat interactive screens to play with too. Overall, a nice place to spend some time if you're in the general San Jose Silicon Valley area.

I really enjoyed visiting this place. Interesting to see the history of Intel. It was a quick visit, but also worth a stop to learn a little bit about the company.

Found this free attraction while exploring Santa Clara last week. So much insight and the employees were so kind to me and the other guests, willing to answer any and all questions we had. Top tier team!

I arranged a tour of the museum years ago for a group of high schoolers and it was a fantastic experience. The guide was friendly and up-beat and communicated at a level that could be well understood by the students. I recently went back with my daughter on a school field trip (4-8th graders) and was really disappointed by the guide. They were barely inaudible, didn't communicate anything clearly, and would occasionally just make up random names for the kids, and not in a funny way, but an "I don't care about any of you" kinda way. I found the whole thing rather disrespectful. If the museum can't hire guides able to handle school groups, I would suggest they stop the service, it's just a bad experience and wastes everyone's time.

Intel Museum is simply amazing. I really enjoyed seeing the progress that we have made from 3.2 microns to 7 nm chips.The museum has a lot of interesting and interactive activities that include 4G vs 5G speed demo, AR funny stuff, Intel Bunny Suit cutouts for taking pictures, etc.It also has 2 Pokemon Go Gyms and 3 PokeStops. Have fun people, you'll learn a good deal about the computing units in our computers and a lot of other things as well!

Free parking and free admission. It was a fun and informative journey through semiconductor history and more ... Go show your kids how big everything used to be, haha

Tried the Intel Museum again because my friend in town wanted to check it out! I thought maybe when I went last time it was just a bad day, nope. Do not waste your time here. It was such a mess! I at least wanted to try on a bunny suit but the station was in bedlum. I've attached other photos as well. They really need some guides or at least someone who knows how to keep the place running during the day. Besides all that, the circulation was so awful, the museum itself smelled nauseating.

They don't allow service dog inside No sign under Code, Sections 365.5, 365.6 and 365.7 I am disability very disappointed never ever come back or recommend any one come here.