Be inspired with a summer of fun at the new look NVM!
We’ve undergone a major revamp of our most popular exhibits in time for the summer! Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, our summer revamp includes new displays, stories and interpretations as well as new offerings of creative activities available every day during the holidays.
Book NowOur award-winning Learning Team has developed new hands-on activities, including designing mini arcade cabinets using paper based art and craft materials, creating a videogame jingle using a BBC:Microbit, and exploring analogue versions of popular videogames through classic board games, in a range of exciting events, every day throughout the school holidays.
The NVM will be open every day from the 24th July to the 3rd September (10am – 5pm) and will offer dedicated activities inspired by the following themes:
● The Arcade: “how we play together” – 24th July to 11th August
● The Lab: “how we learn together” – 12th August to 25th August
● Made In Sheffield: “how we make together” – 26th August – 3rd September
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the “Level Up” project that invited local communities to feedback on the Museum’s content, visitors will be able to encounter new interpretations of key exhibits at the Museum including a fresh exploration of Sheffield’s rich gaming heritage, in “Made in Sheffield”.
Shining a light on the city’s gaming legacy through new displays and objects, spanning forty years from the beginnings of Gremlin Graphics, the display features an exclusive beta version of Steel City Interactive’s upcoming boxing game ‘Undisputed’ which will be playable in the Museum.
Accompanying the playable “Undisputed” game is a special display of unique objects on loan from studio, including an esports boxing world championship belt.
We’ve also launched an open-call to submit photographs online to our new digital collection, which aims to preserve people’s stories from their own gaming history.
Participants are invited to share photographs of themselves from their own collections, engaging with videogames – whether setting high scores in an amusement arcade, or playing videogames at home – all of your game playing photographs are of interest to the Museum.
As important as preserving physical games and hardware, the photographs will form part of the Museum’s efforts to capture the hidden stories and forgotten memories of early videogame history and its significant cultural impact on society.
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