If you think that nobody wants the old computers or peripherals that you once worked or played on -- or perhaps helped build and design -- think again: There may be a museum that could use them.

For example, earlier this year, Computerworld editor Barbara Krasnoff donated her circa-1992 Gateway Handbook to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

What's in it for you? Some museums may cover shipping, offer a tax deduction and/or credit the donor on an exhibit's label. If nothing else, you've decluttered a little -- and you have the satisfaction of having done right by your once-prized possession.

Here are some of the technology-collecting museums in the United States that might give your old techno-treasure(s) a good home.