Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Video game museum in Oakland, United States

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is an art museum in downtown Oakland, California, dedicated to video game history and digital media as an art form. It holds a large collection of playable consoles, arcade machines, and digital artworks spread across several rooms.

The museum grew out of a collection of Atari and ColecoVision EPROMs that journalist Alex Handy found at the Laney College flea market in July 2008. Volunteers exhibited the first pieces at GDC 2011, and after a Kickstarter campaign the MADE opened in November 2011 at 610 16th Street in Oakland. A collapsed classroom ceiling in June 2015 led to a move to 3400 Broadway, where it reopened in February 2016. Closed by the pandemic in March 2020, it reopened in June 2022 in downtown Oakland.

The museum treats video games as a form of art alongside painting or sculpture, giving them the same kind of serious attention. Visitors can sit down and play titles from different decades, which makes the experience feel active rather than passive.

The museum is located in downtown Oakland, a short walk from a BART station, so getting there by public transit is straightforward. Allow at least half a day if you want to try out the playable exhibits and take part in any workshops.

The museum is one of the few places in the world that actively preserves playable software and hardware, rather than just displaying them behind glass. Many of the pieces in the collection were donated by private collectors who had nowhere else to send them.