Video Game Museum of Rome, Video game museum in Rome, Italy
The Video Game Museum of Rome (VIGAMUS) is an interactive museum in a large exhibition centre, tracing video game history from the Magnavox Odyssey onward. Its collection holds 440 pieces of video game ephemera and more than 100 information panels, plus 15 retrospectives on how particular games were made. Separate areas hold 36 console stations, arcade cabinets from the 1980s and 1990s, and an Oculus VR room.
The museum opened in 2012 as the first video game museum in Italy, founded and run by the Fondazione Vigamus. Over the years, the collection has grown steadily to cover more decades and more platforms.
The museum shows how video games became part of Italian popular culture and what role they play in people's lives today. The exhibition tells this story through original games, consoles, and personal objects from developers.
The museum sits on Via Sabotino in central Rome and is easy to reach by public transport. Plan enough time to actually play at the interactive stations, not just look at the displays.
VIGAMUS staged an exhibition on the Atari burial dig in Alamogordo, New Mexico, displaying artefacts recovered from the excavated landfill. Its signage and marketing are styled after Space Invaders. The museum also publishes its own magazine, VMag, devoted to the video game industry.
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