Home of the Codebreakers

Bletchley Park!

Visiting fee was 15.25GBP for a student but it was well worth it. You could easily spend half a day visiting all the buildings in the park. The best part was being in the huts (Hut 8, Alan Turing's hut) where the actual code breaking happened some 70 years ago during WWII. Also, the Turing Bombe, which was made to discover some of the daily settings of the Enigma machines on the various German military networks during WWII, was demonstrated in the Museum. Alongside many stories about WWII, the museum also houses the stacked slate sculpture of Alan Turing. The one reason i wanted to visit the place. The sculpture is so mesmerising to look at with all those slate perfectly stacked on top of each other to create the image of Alan Turing. I was just thankful that it was not exhibited in the National History of Computing, or else i will have to pay extra price to see this.

The Bletchley park mansion (see Extra Photos), which was prominently featured in the movie "The Imitation Game" billed by Benedict Cumberbatch, exhibited the props that were used in the movie including the actual clothes that Charles Dance, Keira Knightly and Benedict Cumberbatch wore in the movie.