Austrian Games Museum

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The Austrian Games Museum is a museum in Leopoldsdorf in Marchfelde . The museum is supported by the registered association Austrian Games Museum, which has existed since 1990.

As a member of the ICOM (International Council of Museums), the Austrian Games Museum is dedicated to documenting games as a cultural asset, has a collection of over 30,000 games and, with its research department Vienna Games Academy, has been awarding the Austrian Games Prize every year since 2001 .

As a co-organizer of the Austrian Games Festival and organizer of regional game festivals on the Schallaburg , in Liezen , Gänserndorf , Wolkersdorf , Katzelsdorf and Dürnkrut , it is dedicated to the dissemination of games as a social, educational and social instrument.

history

The Austrian Games Museum was founded by Dagmar and Ferdinand de Cassan, who brought their original private collection to the museum.

The monthly game magazine Win has been published since 1976 and the annual game manual since 1986, in two languages ​​since 2010 under the title game for game and game by game.

On October 1, 2019, the Institute for Ludology from Berlin received the Austrian Games Museum and will continue to operate it as the "International Games Museum" in the Residenzschloss in Altenburg (Germany).

The museum is located in the former Leopoldsdorf station of the Siebenbrunn – Engelhartstetten local railway .

Events

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The online standard , Austrian Games Museum is open, from September 8, 2003, accessed on November 11, 2017
  2. ↑ ORF-Online.at ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Long Night of the Museums, October 7, 2017, accessed on November 11, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / langacht.orf.at
  3. ↑ Spieletest.at , accessed on November 12, 2017
  4. ↑ Spielfest in Vienna , November 11, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2017
  5. ^ Austrian Games Museum becomes Collection de Cassan in Altenburg , October 10, 2019, accessed on October 10, 2019

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '26 "  N , 16 ° 41' 2.6"  E