Best Game Museum — 16 verified

Video game museums preserve playable hardware, original software, design documents, and oral histories. Destinations for collectors and researchers experiencing gaming's history hands-on.

• The Strong National Museum of Play — New York. The Strong is the largest US museum dedicated to play, housing the World Video Game Hall of Fame and the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG). Its collection includes more
• National Videogame Museum — Texas. Opened in 2016 inside the Frisco Discovery Center, the National Videogame Museum is the only American museum dedicated solely to the history of the video game industry. The 10,400-square-foot space ho
• Museum of Pop Culture — Washington. MoPOP's Indie Game Revolution has been the largest interactive gaming exhibition in the world since 2014. The exhibit rotates roughly twenty playable indie titles, interviews with 45 developers, and a
• Computer History Museum — California. The Computer History Museum holds the world's largest collection of computing artifacts, including landmark games like Galaxy Game, the first coin-operated video game. Live demos of Spacewar! on a wor
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Video Game Collection — District of Columbia. SAAM was among the first US art museums to acquire video games into its permanent collection, beginning with thatgamecompany's Flower and Ed Fries's Halo 2600. Its 2012 exhibition The Art of Video Gam
• American Classic Arcade Museum — New Hampshire. Founded in 1998 inside Funspot, the world's largest arcade, ACAM preserves and displays around 180 fully playable arcade games from the 1970s and 1980s. The nonprofit's collection of more than 250 cab
• Roanoke Pinball Museum — Virginia. Located inside the Center in the Square complex in downtown Roanoke, this museum features more than 70 well-maintained playable pinball machines dating from 1932 to the present. It interprets the scie
• Asheville Pinball Museum — North Carolina. The Asheville Pinball Museum offers over 75 vintage pinball machines plus classic video games inside a downtown space at 1 Battle Square. Machines span the 1950s through today, with a single flat admi
• Silverball Retro Arcade Asbury Park — New Jersey. Founded in 2009 and operating on the Asbury Park boardwalk since 2010, Silverball maintains a rotating collection of around 200 playable electromechanical and digital pinball machines drawn from a 600
• Silverball Retro Arcade Delray Beach — Florida. Silverball's Delray Beach museum features more than 150 vintage and modern pinball, video, and arcade games set to free play under one admission ticket. Like its Asbury Park sibling, the location func
• Replay Amusement Museum — Florida. Founded in 2014 by Brian and Becky Cheaney from their private collection, Replay houses more than 120 working pinball machines and classic arcade cabinets in downtown Tarpon Springs. The museum is not
• Pinball PA - Pennsylvania Coin Operated Gaming Hall of Fame — Pennsylvania. Located in the former Hopewell Shopping Center near Pittsburgh, Pinball PA fills a 10,500-square-foot space with more than 400 playable arcade and pinball machines. Another 1,200 machines sit in stora
• Electromagnetic Pinball Museum and Restoration — Rhode Island. The Electromagnetic Pinball Museum holds about 100 pinball machines, with around 80 typically working at any time, spanning the mid-20th-century origins of the game to modern releases. The nonprofit's
• The Lazarus Pinball Museum — Missouri. Founded in 2023 in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, the Lazarus Pinball Museum began with a single machine and has grown into a sizable public collection of playable pinball and arcade games. The museu
• Chicago Gamespace — Illinois. Opened in September 2020 in Chicago's Logan Square, Chicago Gamespace is the Midwest's leading video game museum and art gallery. It presents a playable history of consoles, computers, and arcades fro
• Vintage Computer Federation Museum at InfoAge — New Jersey. The Vintage Computer Federation operates a working museum on the InfoAge Science Center campus in Wall, New Jersey. Visitors can interact with restored mainframes, minicomputers, and home computers fr

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