The Virtual OS Museum offers over 1,700 installations of 600+ operating systems, curated by developer Andrew Warkentin since 2003, and accessible via emulation on your computer.
The Virtual OS Museum has over 1,700 unique installations
Jun 08, 2026
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What's the storyThe Virtual OS Museum is a digital treasure trove of over 1,700 unique installations of more than 600 operating systems across over 250 platforms.
The project is the brainchild of Andrew Warkentin, an OS historian and developer who has been curating this collection since 2003.
The Virtual OS Museum lets you relive over 600 operating systems right on your desktop
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A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them
From mainframes, to Mac OS, and everything in between.
The history of computing at your fingertips.
If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like to use the many operating systems Apple (and NeXT) released over the past 40-plus…
OK, every operating system is a bit of a stretch — Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but [Andrew]’s Virtual OS museum…
Mit dem „Virtual OS Museum“ lassen sich 80 Jahre Computergeschichte direkt im Emulator nacherleben. Das Projekt macht historische…
