[1] The museum idea became more concrete in 1983/1984 through purchases with the support of the Cologne office machine expert Uwe Breker.

[1] Between 1992 and 1996, the HNF was designed and built on the premises of the former headquarters of Nixdorf Computer AG by the Berlin architects Ludwig Thürmer and Gerhard Diel, and a scientific team led by the mathematician Norbert Ryska.

[2] In the presence of the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the museum was opened on 24 October 1996. has an average of over 110,000 visitors annually.

[citation needed] In its permanent exhibition space, the museum presents 5,000 years of information and communications technology (ICT).

In a historical journey through time, the story is presented from the origin of writing in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BC to current topics such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, and robotics.