Slashdot Asks: Appropriate Place For Free / Open Source Software Artifacts?

A friend of mine who buys and sells used books, movies, etc. recently purchased a box full of software on CD, including quite a few old Linux distributions, and asked me if I'd like them. The truth is, I would like them, but I've already collected over the last two decades more than I should in the way of Linux distributions, on at least four kinds of media (starting with floppies made from a CD that accompanied a fat book on how to install some distribution or other -- very useful in the days of dialup). I've got some boxes (Debian Potato, and a few versions of Red Hat and Mandrake Linux), and an assortment of marketing knickknacks, T-shirts, posters, and books. I like these physical artifacts, and they're not dominating my life, but I'd prefer to actually give many of them to someplace where they'll be curated. (Or, if they should be tossed, tossed intelligently.) Can anyone point to a public collection of some kind that gathers physical objects associated with Free software and Open Source, and makes them available for others to examine? (I plan to give some hardware, like a pair of OLPC XO laptops, to the same Goodwill computer museum highlighted in this video, but they probably don't want an IBM-branded radio in the shape of a penguin.)

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Your local Jr. High and High Schools

[Anonymous Coward]

A small display-box containing 1 or 2 items that were "new" in the birth years of the students attending that school would be nice to have in the display case in the math/science/technology wing of every middle- and high-school.

Of course, we are only talking 12-14 years back for Junior High Schools and 14-18 years back (Windows 98!!! oh wait, that's not open source) for High Schools.

Well, perhaps they can have a "your mom and dad's computer" display with things in the 25-55-year-old range.