The MADE

Play video game history. Learn digital expression.

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is a 501c(3) physical community space where digital entertainment artifacts are stored and exhibited in playable form for the purposes of education and entertainment.

Play

Digital entertainment, unlike many other art forms, requires interaction to be understood. Discussing games without playing them robs participants of the opportunity to directly feel the impact of design decisions. To that end, we try to make everything in our museum playable. Check out what's on our floor here!

Learn

In an increasingly digital world, methods of communication are expanding dramatically. Temporal media can be shared across the world in a matter of clicks. Increasingly, the creation of interactive media as a form of self-expression is becoming not only ubiquitous, but a necessity to convey information clearly and concisely. To that end, we work to go beyond traditional history pedagogy; everyone should be able to experience the history. We believe that every child should be able to connect to their digital heritage viscerally while learning the skills to critically assess and create it.

The classes we offer for kids can be signed up for on our eventbrite page. Students get free entry to the museum after classes.

Your child will:

• Learn discipline specific vocabulary to more precisely describe their individual taste in digital entertainment.
• Study a variety of tools and techniques used in media such as animation, hardware, audio, graphics, story, and more!
• Use tools like Shadertoy, SculptGL, Three.js, Scratch, Arduino, and many more cutting edge tools to express themselves and directly implement formal educational material.

We also have open hours for our museum which require a $20 admission.

Open Hours:

• Wednesday - Thursday: 10am-5pm
• Friday - Saturday: 11am-9pm
• Sunday: 11am-7pm

Kids and adults can play games from the very early days of video game history to the recent past of a decade ago. We have a huge library of games all playable on the original systems and presented on period accurate displays.