[game_preservation] Digital Press kickstarting a videogame history museum

[Martin Goldberg]

Collection and display.  They're basically interested in formal
presentation of their personal collections (a portion of which they've
been showing off at CGE and E3 all these years).


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

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> Devin Monnens

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Marty