Oakland’s Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment Gets New Home

"How many items can you identify? Old School Tech!" by Betsy Weber licensed under CC BY 2.0
How many items can you identify? Old School Tech!” by Betsy Weber licensed under CC BY 2.0

Source: Oakland Tribune

After a successful crowd-funding campaign this past summer, Oakland’s Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) is gearing up for a grand reopening in their new home on 3400 Broadway in the city’s downtown.

Alex Handy, the nonprofit’s founder, has dreams to create a world class institution dedicated to video games. He was inspired in 2008 while shopping at a Laney College Flea Market, where he came across numerous rare game items, including an unreleased Atari 2600 version of ColecoVision’s “Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park.”

Although one can find exhibits at major museums dedicated to video games and visit museums that showcase digital technology as a whole, MADE is the first organization to make video game museums “a thing.”

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