The National Videogame Museum has undergone a major redesign and will be offering imaginative and creative activities, every single day this Summer.
The National Videogame Museum have introduced new interactive activities for museum visitors to enjoy, including designing mini arcades, creating a videogame jingle, and exploring analogue versions of popular videogames, in a range of exciting events.
Visitors will be able to explore new interpretations of three exhibits at the Museum including a fresh exploration of “Made in Sheffield.” The exhibition hosts the opportunity to delve into forty years of Sheffield’s gaming legacy through new displays and objects. You’ll also be able to test your virtual boxing skills in their newly introduced and exclusive interactive game, ‘Undisputed.’
Cat Powell, Director of Visitor Experience at the NVM commented on the redesign, stating: “There are so many different ways to engage with The National Videogame Museum this summer! The team have worked hard to create a range of creative activities, which change throughout the holidays, giving visitors the perfect excuse to come back more than once.”
The museum will be host to two more exhibitions over the summer, including ‘The Arcade’ which will explore the history of arcades from the 1970’s to 2000’s and allow visitors to immerse themselves in creative activities such as designing your own mini arcade cabinet and top the leader board in Space Invaders.
The second exhibition titled ‘The Lab’ will give participants the opportunity to revisit the 1980’s classroom with a real working BBC Microcomputer and design your own videogames using web-based game making software.
Also launching this summer, is an open-call to submit photographs online to NVM’s new digital collection, which aims to preserve people’s stories from their own gaming history. Participants are encouraged to share photographs of themselves from their own collections, engaging with videogames all of your game playing photographs are of interest to the Museum.
This image archiving initiative aims to collect the frozen moments in time that establish how arcade machines created vibrant social interactions in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Tickets and more information about new exhibitions including opening dates can be found on the NVM website here https://thenvm.org/.
