[game_preservation] Digital Press kickstarting a videogame history museum

[Devin Monnens]

Digital Press is taking donations for The Video Game History Museum, which
first showed an exhibit at E3 this year as well as at the Classic Gaming Exp
in Vegas.

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/07/digital_press_veterans_kicksta.php
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760848975/the-videogame-history-museum
http://www.vghmuseum.org/

They're looking to raise $50k through Kickstarter, which actually seems to
me like a very small number. Do you suppose they're looking more for
collection and display rather than long-term preservation? I recently read
an article about how museums are less interested in long-term preservation
(i.e. making sure the thing works) than with having objects on display, so
whether the data on a floppy disk is readable is kind of irrelevant. The
curators pointed their fingers at libraries and archives as those
responsible for the task of information preservation.
-- 
Devin Monnens
www.deserthat.com

The sleep of Reason produces monsters.
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