Cryptologic Travel Guide

Adelaide, Australia

Somerton Man Sites

• Somerton Man grave
• Somerton Beach (place where the corpse of the Somerton Man was found)

Albuquerque, NM

Window Rock

• Navajo code talkers memorial

 

Amsterdam

Marinemuseum, Den Helder

• Has a Dutch Enigma

 

Belfast, UK

Whitehead

• Encrypted grave stone

 

Bergen, Norway

Theta Room

• Museum with an Enigma on display

Isdal Woman

• Isdal Woman guided tour

 

Berlin, Germany

Museum Harnekop

• Has cipher equipment from Eastern Germany

Antiquariat für Occulta & Masonica

• Book store selling masonic literature

Luftwaffenmuseum Berlin-Gatow

• Has an Enigma.

Set Theory Clock

• Clue for Kryptos

Deutsches Technikmuseum

• Has an Enigma and other cipher machines.

Deutsches Spionagemuseum

• Has an Enigma and other cipher machines.

 

Berne, Switzerland

Museum für Kommunikation

• Has a few encryption machines on display.

Museum ENTER (Solothurn)

• Computer museum (might have cipher technology)

 

Billings, MT

Montana Computer & Robotics Museum, Bozeman

• Has a few encryption machines on display.

 

Birmingham, AL

Old Flatwoods Cemetery in Nauvoo

•  Grave stone of Wealtha McGough

 

Birmingham, UK

Shugborough Hall

• Tourist site with a famous monument having an encrypted inscription

Cheltenham

• Listening Stones (scupltures with inscriptions, some of them encrypted)

Bonn, Germany

Arithmeum

• Has an Enigma.

 

Boston, MA

Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library 

• Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / National Heritage Museum

Museum of World War II

• Has an Enigma.

MIT

• Vail collection

 

Brussels, Belgium

Moustier

• Church with two encrypted altar inscriptions

Budapest

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• Rohonc Codex

Military Museum

• Has an Enigma H.

Hungarian Museum of Military History

• Has an Enigma H-221

 

Bydgoszcz, Poland

Rejewski Monument

• Monument dedicated to Marian Rejewski, who was born in Bydgoszcz.

 

Cardiff, UK

Monmouth Church

• Puzzle gravestone

 

Charlotte, NC

University of North Carolina

• Cyrillic Projector (Sculpture by Jim Sanborn)

Chicago, IL

Geneva

• Fabyan Villa (important place in crypto history)

 

Columbia, SC

University of SC Library

• Oliver Hart’s encrypted diary

 

Columbus, OH

Fulton, Ohio

• Encrypted gravestone

 

Copenhagen

Museum (?)

• Alexis Koehl’s cipher machines

 

Dallas

Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Bluffdale, Texas

• Masonic grave stone

 

Dublin

National Library

• Encrypted diary

National Print Museum

• might have cipher exhibits

 

Edinburgh

Dalkeith

• Grave stone

 

Gothenburg, Sweden

Kikås

• Encrypted gravestone of Knut Bergman (1853-1906)

 

Hamburg, Germany

Internationales Maritimes Museum

• Has an Enigma.

 

Independence, MO

Truman Museum

• Has cipher machines.

 

Innsbruck, Austria

Goldenes Dachl (Little Golden Roof)

• Encrypted inscription.

 

Koblenz, Germany

Bundeswehr Museum

• Has cipher equipment.

 

Liverpool, UK

U-boat Story / Birkenhead

• Has an Enigma.

Liverpool Record Office

• Has cipher material.

 

London, UK

Blandford Forum

• Military museum with crypto exhibits

The Bletchley

• https://www.thebletchley.co.uk/#t43-kitch3n

British Library

• Journal of the South Carolina Baptist Historical Society (1975, Olilver Hart’s Diary)
• BL Ms Add 32305 contains 39 folios of “unidentified cipher keys”:
• “Alaric 3 Cipher” book, by Nathaniel George Wilkins

British Museum

• Simonds D’Ewes Diary (?), in The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D’Ewes encrypted books are mentioned
• Franks Casket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks_Casket
• Encrypted letters:
  https://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_035330
  https://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_058722
  https://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_008017

Freemason Archive

• Has numerous cipher archivals

Imperial War Museum

• Has encryption machines
• Has PoW letters written by Julius Green

Imperial War Museum Duxford

• Has crypto equipment.

Combined Military Services Museum Maldon

• Has an Enignma
• MI9 paperwork
• other cipher equipment?

National British Archive

• Has a lot of crypto-related material.

Newmarket (Suffolk)

• Bill Tutte Memorial

Science Museum

• Has encryption machines.

Blythe House Archive & Library

• Has a Beatrix Potter collection, open to all with an interest in Beatrix Potter and her encrypted diary.

Wellcome Library

• Has encrypted documents.

Museum of Childhood

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2624200/Confessions-crushes-stolen-kisses-200-years-teenage-diaries.html

Victoria & Albert Museum

• Akhnaton coat (not on display)
• https://www.wired.com/2012/01/british-pow-uses-morse-code-to-stitch-hidden-message-during-wwii/

Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum

• Has Polish cipher equipment.

Jozef Pilsudski Institute (aka Instytut Józefa Piłsudskiego)

• Has a French-built Enigma analogue and a considerable display concerning the Polish contribution to early Enigma cracking.

Military Intelligence Museum at Chicksands

• Has an Enigma.

 

Los Angeles, CA

Huntington Library

• The Civil War Telegraph Archive of Thomas T. Eckert

Luxemburg

• https://learning.mozilla.org/codemoji/#/onboarding/step1

 

Luzern, Switzerland

Verkehrshaus

• Has cipher machines (Enigma, Kryha)

 

Manchester, UK

Mellor

• Pigpen grave stone of Thomas Brierly,

Castleton

• Pigpen grave stone of John Farmer Dakin

Manchester University

• Turing memorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Memorial
• Encrypted diary: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13677160

 

Milan, Italy

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

• Has a few cipher machines on display.

 

Milton Keynes, UK

Bletchley Park

• Famous crypto museum

National Museum of Computing

• Has an original SZ42, plus rebuilds of the Tunny Machine and Colossus.

Escape room “Roomescape”

• https://www.roomescapemk.com/decipherthevoynich.html

• https://www.agreatescaperoom.com/about

 

Milwaukee, WI

Public Museum, Dietz Typewriter Collection

• https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/history/online-collections-research/dietz-typewriter-collection (Cryptologia 1991-1-4 Sedgwick)

 

Montreal, Canada

Fuck-you Gravestone

• Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetary in Montreal, for 54-year-old John Laird McCaffrey who died in 1995

Fabian Humphrey’s Prayer Book

• Montreal, McClennan Library (McGill University), MS G 177

 

Moscow

Zvenigorod

• Bell with encrypted inscrption

 

Munich, Germany

Deutsches Museum

• Has a cipher machine collection.

 

Narvik, Norway

Occupation Museum

• Has an Enigma.

 

Newcastle, UK

??? Cemetry

• Encrypted gravestone of Walter Creighton Bell

 

New Orleans, LA

National World War II Meuseum

• Has Enigma on display.

 

New York City

Pigpen grave Stones

• https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2014/03/18/der-verschluesselte-grabstein-im-schatten-des-world-trade-center/

Nightmare House

• Zodiac Killer exhibit https://nightmarenyc.com/    (temporary?)

New York Public Library

• David Shulman Collection
• New York Tribune Articles after 1876 election
• https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/baconcipher.pdf

New York Society Library

• Winthrop cryptogram

 

New York State

• Henry Debosnys exhibits/papers in Adirondack History Museum, Elizabethtown, NY
• Noah John Rondeau’s encrypted journals in Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

 

Nottingham, UK

Cryptology Escape Rooms

• https://cryptologyrooms.co.uk/

Nuremberg, Germany

Railway + Communication Museum

Protokollbuch des studentischen Constantistenordens

 

Oakland, CA

Edward Hebern building

• Former headquarters of Edward Heberns cipher machine company

 

Orlando, FL

Ocala

• Code Talkers Monument

 

Paderborn

HeinzNixdorf MuseumsForum

• Has a large collection of cipher machines.

 

Paris

Écouen, Musée national de la Renaissance

•  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:16th_century_French_cypher_machine_in_the_shape_of_a_book_with_arms_of_Henri_II.jpg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encoded_letter_of_Gabriel_Luetz_d_Aramon_after_1546_with_partial_deciphering.jpg

Musée Carnavalet

• parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/page-69-du-carnet-de-croquis-inscriptions-et-chiffres

 

Philadelphia, PA

University of Delaware Library

• Charles Herbert diary (many parts in code, broken)

 

Pittsburgh, PA

Leibniz Encryption Machine

 

Portsmouth, UK

National Museum Royal Navy

• Has an Enigma

Collingwood Museum

• Whittingham Cryptograph

 

Poznan, Poland

Codebreakers Memorial

• Memorial dedicated to the Polish Enigma codebreakers

 

Raleigh, NC

North Carolina State University

• Jack Levine Collection

North Carolina State Archives

• Rose O’Neal Greenhow ciphers

 

Richmond, VA

Museum of the Confederacy

• Encrypted message in a bottle, cipher disks

 

Rome, Italy

Restaurant Armando al Pantheon

• Uses plates designed by Luigi Serafini, creator of the Codex Seraphinianus

 

Salzburg, Austria

Salzburg Museum

• Untersberg Code Document

 

San Francisco, CA

Museum ship USS Pampanito

• Has a Sigaba machine and other cipher equipment on board

 

San Jose, CA

Computer History Museum, Mountain View

• https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102627408
  https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102704301

Mountain View National History Museum

• Has an Enigma.

 

St. Louis, MO

Washington University

• Crypto books in library

 

Stockholm, Sweden

Ödeshög

• Rök Runestone

 

Toronto, Canada

Wellesley grave stone

• https://www.waterlooogs.ca/cemeterypics/RushesCemetery.html

 

Vienna, Austria

Technisches Museum

• Enigma and Rehmann Diskret on display

Starhemberg-Kaserne

• Cellection of radio technology, including crypto devices

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

• Cipher discs
• numerical codes

Stephansdom

• O5 sign at Stephansdom
• Rudolf’s IV gravestone in the Stephansdom in Vienna carries an inscription enciphered using the Alphabetum Kaldeorum, which gives the names and titles of the duke.

Klosterneuburg

• Plague Coloumn inscription

Warsaw, Poland

Technical Museum

• Has an Enigma.

Military Museum

• Has two Enigmas.

Pyry

• Memorial plate

Rejewski Homestead

• Memorial plate

Rejewski, Różicki, Zygalski Memorial

• Memorial

 

Washington, DC

Antipodes

• Sculpture with encrypted inscription

National Cryptologic Museum

• Most important crypto museum in the world

Spy Museum

• Has an Enigma and some more cipher exhibits

Washington University Libraries

• Cryptography collection

CIA Museum Langley

• Enigma, M209, but not open to public

Cold War Museum Vint Hill

only building

Carlisle Army archive

NARA, Washington

• Might have information about MIS-X

US National Archives in College Park, MD College Park

• Has Rose O’Neal Greenhow material

Crime Museum

• Zodiac Killer exhibits?

Folger Shakespeare Library

• Had Voynich Manuscript exhibition (now closed)

George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington

• Friedman Collection, (see Cryptologia 1/2015)
• Rosemary Sheldon inventory

Air and Space Museum

Electronics Museum

Fort Hunt

• Former location of MIS-X

National Archive

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Stegnographic letter (https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1071966)
• Decrypts (https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39518)
• Milk can (https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1091138)
• Box (https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1147069)

Library of Congress

Hampton sculpture

Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building

• Covert Operations Fragments (sculpture by Jim Sanborn)

Arlington Cemetrary

• Friedman’s grave

Zurich, Switzerland

Schreibmaschinenmuseum Pfäffikon

• Has a few cipher machines on display.

 

Notes:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

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