January 9, 2026
Ticket to ride… and rage
Favorite Tech Museums
Fans turn a museum love letter into shoutouts, a $30 rant, and a 20-year plea
TLDR: Marcin Wichary celebrated tech museums, especially Taipei’s rail workshop, with photos and praise. Comments turned into a fiery museum roll call and a price debate, with Chicago’s MSI catching flak and fans pleading for Wichary’s long-unupdated Guidebook Gallery to return — proving nostalgia still runs the show.
Tech writer Marcin Wichary dropped a photo-packed love letter to his favorite tech museums, swooning over Taiwan’s National Railway Museum Park and its cinematic “train guts” and restoration pride. Cue the comments turning into a chaotic roll call of hometown heroes, with readers tossing museum names like confetti and flexing regional pride.
The loudest drama? Price rage. One Chicago local brought the heat on the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), fuming that it “costs $30 instead of being free,” and lamenting the end of old-school corporate exhibit glitz (think General Electric and IBM) in favor of more “educational” displays. The thread split into nostalgia vs. modern vibes, with jokes about paying a “nostalgia tax” to relive childhood field trips.
Then came the sentiment bomb: fans begging Wichary to revive his beloved old web project Guidebook Gallery, dropped via a wistful “aresluna.org” nudge and the devastating punchline: “It’s been 20 years…” Expect memes about fossilized websites and museum-grade web pages. Meanwhile, the shoutouts flew: family-friendly Explora in Albuquerque, heavyweight Deutsches Museum in Munich, and joystick justice at the National Videogame Museum in Texas. Verdict? Trains vs. games, kids vs. grown-up nerds, nostalgia vs. new-school polish — the crowd came to play.
Key Points
- •The article is a photo essay of technology museums, highlighting six best, sixteen additional notable, and three less-positive examples.
- •The National Railway Museum Park/Taipei Railway Workshop in Taiwan is profiled in detail, visited in 2025 near Songshan Park.
- •The museum is housed in a historic railway workshop complex with locomotives, industrial cranes, and preserved machinery.
- •Notable exhibits include restoration videos on vertical displays and a multimedia transparent screen revealing a locomotive’s inner workings via 3D animations.
- •There are plans to expand the site into a broader park using surrounding disused buildings; the author revisited a week later and provides the museum’s official website.