Computer Games Museum Berlin

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Computer Games Museum Berlin
Exhibition Computer Games Museum 2.JPG
Data
place Berlin-Friedrichshain
opening 1997
management
Klaus player
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-911113

The computer game museum was opened in 1997 in Berlin as the world's first museum for interactive digital entertainment culture. Since then it has been responsible for over 30 national and international exhibitions, including the “pong.mythos” project sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Since January 21, 2011 the museum has had a new permanent exhibition in the former Café Warsaw on Karl-Marx-Allee .

General

Wall of hardware
Pong machine

The computer game museum opened the world's first permanent exhibition on digital interactive entertainment culture in Berlin in 1997. Since then it has been responsible for over 30 national and international exhibitions, including the “pong.mythos” project, a traveling exhibition with artistic works on the game of pong, which has been funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation since 2006 . With the concept of “computer games. Evolution of a medium ”by Andreas Lange and K.-Peter Gerstenberger from 2009, it became possible to win private and public sponsors for the establishment of a new permanent exhibition, which opened on January 21, 2011 in Berlin. The construction of the new permanent exhibition was organized by the German Lottery Foundation Berlin , from the cultural investment program of the Berlin cultural administration ( ERDF funded -means) as well as from private sources. The museum has (as of 2018) around 30,000 original data carriers with computer games and applications, around 12,000 specialist magazines, 120 different historical home computers and console systems and an extensive collection of other documents, such as B. Videos, posters and manuals. There are also arcade machines , media art objects and merchandising articles. It therefore has one of the largest collections of entertainment software and hardware in Europe.

The collection of the computer games museum is owned by the Förderverein für Jugend und Sozialarbeit e. V., the new museum itself is operated by Gameshouse gGmbH (managing directors: Klaus Spieler and Wolf-Dieter Tuchel).

The computer games museum is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the German Museum Association and the Nestor project, which is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

Special exhibitions (selection)

In addition to the permanent exhibition, which focuses on people playing in the digital world, special exhibitions are shown that take up the facets of the topic of 'games' and the artistic approach to the medium in a variety of ways.

  • Motorcycle - classic games like Excitebike for the NES, Action-Biker for the C64 , Vollgas - Full Throttle for the PC or Motocross Manics for the Game Boy as well as more than 15 other titles, 2013.
  • Model worlds - painting by Matthias Zimmermann , 2013
  • Cosplay - photos by Jörg Pitschmann, 2012
  • Thibault Brunet: Vice City , 2012
  • Tennis for Two - Playing with Physics, 2012
  • Street Fighter II - an artistic approach by Stefan Schwarzer, 2011
  • Orochi and the White Wolf - Asian Classics, 2015
  • Endless Summer - Here comes the sun, 2015
  • Games from a thousand and one nights - Daddeln mit Dates, 2016
  • 20 milestones from Germany, September 2017 to February 2018
  • Monsters Attack Planet Earth, February to September 2018
  • Tell me more! Tell me more! Literature and computer games, September 2018 to January 2019
  • The digital kitchen - you (don't) play with food until September 2020

Projects

The museum is a cooperation partner of the EU research project PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services). It is also a co-sponsor of the Keeping Emulation Environments Portable -EU research project.

Prices

The museum is the recipient of the German Children's Culture Prize 2002. In 2017 it won the German Computer Game Prize in the category “Special Jury Prize” .

See also

Web links

Commons : Computerspielemuseum Berlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hilmar Schmundt: Super Mario in the museum . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 2011, p. 117 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b About us. Computer Games Museum, accessed November 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Collect & Preserve. Computer Games Museum, accessed July 22, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Prize winners . In: German Computer Game Award . ( deutscher-computerspielpreis.de [accessed on November 1, 2017]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 3 ″  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  E