The NVM @nvmuk.bsky.social is so MCM London this weekend! Pop by our table with @mayamada.com to play some Dunk Dunk and share your player stories for a future exhibition!

Celebrating 25 years married to my wonderful, fun, kind and silly husband today. I kind of can't believe it...here's to 25 more. ❤️ (If only I did not have a hideous cold and a cough which sounds like my lungs are full of sand 😭)

May be considering getting a second copy of ACNH to make a National Videogame Museum island on my partner's Switch so I don't have to reset my own island to make it. Technically I could use the same cartridge but then I can't transfer all the recipes, furniture, etc. over. I may be spiraling...

After our Games Preservation online event on the 12th March we have made the full day of recordings available on YouTube. You can find the full playlist of recordings here:

✨ The Beautiful Games Club goes live ✨ For our first ever minisode, we took the podcast on the road - recording live on stage at New Games Plus as part of @londongamesfest.bsky.social! Watch along here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZKj...

Say hello to the Beautiful Games Club 👋 It's like a book club, but for games that we feel are deserving of a little bit of special attention. By the team at @ustwogames.co.uk! In our first episode, we play Neva (2024) by @nomada.studio and @devolverdigital.com. Watch now: youtu.be/S06PzRG2Kek

Mon Coeur est ton Univers❤️✨️ My Heart is your Universe❤️✨️

EFGAMP member spotlight: The LOAD ZX Museum in Cantanhede (Portugal) is hosting the ZX Spectrum GOTY Awards on 21 Feb 2026, 15:00. Fresh homebrew, an international jury, and a community-voted Hall of Fame classic. Watch live on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@LOADZX

EFGAMP keeps growing! We'd like to welcome: Video Game Culture (DE) @hi-score.bsky.social (DE) Video Game History Museum (HR) IVIPRO – Italian Videogame Program (IT) @umbradynamics.bsky.social (UK) to the European network for game preservation, archives, and museums! 🎉 efgamp.eu/2026/01/19/u...

Did you spot us on last night's BBC Look North? Our upcoming project, ‘Behind the Screens’, was featured on the evening news, featuring Co-CEO and Creative Director John O’Shea, who spoke about the cultural value of the UK games industry. Watch now - www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Come work with us! ❤️

Y'ALL it has taken me way too long to upload these (my phone keeps logging me out of Bsky) but the Monument Valley model is finally on display and IT LOOKS SO GOOD!! It's one of my very favourite things in the museum now. Hugely grateful to @ustwogames.co.uk for allowing us to look after it. ❤️

I've gotten sneak peeks at some of the crafts that will be at our Festive Social and they're all amazing! Definitely going to nab some gifts next week!

Having finally binged all three of these gorgeous games in the last two weeks, I'm really excited for this one! (And also for ✨something✨ coming to the museum in a few weeks... 👀)

I also have to give a special mention to the very sweet notes from two students who let me know that I did well despite my sore throat. 😭💖 Thanks again to @michellegrant.bsky.social for bringing your class along!

We had such a fun #TakeoverDay with @st-marys.bsky.social this afternoon! Super excited about their visit to us and we had some brilliant ideas for future games and exhibits in the Museum Makers Workshop they took part in! Looking forward to next year @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social @nvmuk.bsky.social!

Really looking forward to welcoming @st-marys.bsky.social to the museum on Friday for KIMs #TakeoverDay 2026! Excited to see the ideas their mini-curators will come up with for videogames in museums... 👾🎮 @kidsinmuseums.bsky.social @nvmuk.bsky.social @michellegrant.bsky.social

Can you help us reach our holiday funding goal? thenvm.org/corporate-gi...

As a dual citizen (for now), words can barely express the level of contempt I hold for Palantir and Peter Thiel. The NHS is troubled, thanks in part to >10 years of cuts, but a US-style system is not the solution; turning over all of our most private data to amoral, anti-human actors even less so.

Listening to some game music to help me concentrate while I WFH today (🤧) and I am reminded that the Sims Medieval soundtrack had no business going as hard as it did (for a medieval nerd like me, anyway.)

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Event Announcement!!!! Join us on the 11th December for a festive evening of games, gifts and crafting! We’ve got creative workshops, a unique makers market, and festive drinks available. Our gallery will be open to play throughout the evening Book Now thenvm.org/festive-soci...

LOAD ZX Museum becomes 1st Portuguese EFGAMP member. Officially recognized as a project of cultural interest by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture it is regarded as the 1st museum in the world devoted to honouring the legacy of the ZX Spectrum Celebrate its 5th anniversary on Nov 2🎉 loadzx.com/en

One ticket. All summer. Unlimited play. For the first time ever, we’ve introduced a new summer ticket – your key to unlimited visits to the National Videogame Museum until the 1st September. ✅ One ticket ✅ Unlimited visits ✅ All summer long! Book your ticket - thenvm.org

EFGAMP is organizing a panel discussion at gamescom congress on Collecting and Preserving Gaming Cultural Heritage: Status Quo and Challenges Speakers are: Sandra M. Winterberg, Melanie Fritsch, Piotr Gnyp, Natalia Kovalainen, Marco Accordi Rickards, Andreas Lange more: efgamp.eu/2025/08/12/e...

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

…And then a flying visit to see the @gameslondon.bsky.social team and collect a mysterious & beautiful object they were looking after, for a future display @nvmuk.bsky.social. (thanks @ustwogames.co.uk - more soon!)

Something exciting is loading… Creativity takes centre stage at the National Videogame Museum this summer. Get ready for Make It! Play It! Plus, one ticket gets you unlimited visits all summer long ☀️ Your summer of play starts here. Make it. Play it. Book it. www.thenvm.org/make-it-play-it

We’re excited to share that the National Videogame Museum will be representing the UK at the World Expo 2025 Osaka this summer! We have developed ‘Videogames Transforming Lives’, which will showcase the transformative power of videogames through an immersive new exhibition. 1/2

EU friends: please sign and share this initiative if you haven't already done so! There's only a month left and the petition is only halfway there. Videogame preservation is time-sensitive, and every day that passes without more protections means more cultural loss.💔 eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

I like this game a normal amount. 😅 #twopointmuseum

ICYMI: the Video Game History Foundation just acquired a giant lot of mystery development ROMs from Japan (NES/MSX, from Taito?), and we're going to digitize and dissect them live on stream next Thursday, June 4th at 1pm PDT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFA...

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Gutted that today was the last day for our Marketing and Communications Officer, Christian, at the NVM. He has been an invaluable colleague and a treasured friend (& font of Sega knowledge!) since I started in 2022. I know he's going to absolutely smash it at his new job. ❤️

🏎 Putting Inclusivity in the Driver's Seat ⁠🏁 Join us this half term for Pit Stop where the PlayStation 5 will make its debut featuring Forza Horizon 5 - now more accessible than ever with the PS5 Access Controller! 📍 24 May–1 June 🕙 10am–1pm & 2pm–5pm⁠ Find out more ⬇ thenvm.org/pit-stop/

PLEASE act now! •Pressure your MP (use my template - in the reply) •Contact your local spaces and ask them to be trans inclusive •Support the Good Law Project in the legal case they’re preparing: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/... •And for the love of god ELEVATE TRANS VOICES

With the London Marathon this Sunday (eek), I just wanted to share my fundraiser again! I'm not far off my goal to support @nvmuk.bsky.social so huge thank you to everyone who has donated so far! ✨👾 Please support if you can, share and pray my knees make it through the #LondonMarathon on Sunday! 🏃‍♀️

folks formerly of volition have made a massive donation to the strong national museum of play to preserve the studio's history, and this should absolutely be the new standard

Huge congratulations to @jamescarbutt.bsky.social and @wonttodd.bsky.social of Coal Supper for winning Best British Game at last night's BAFTA Games Awards for Thank Goodness You’re Here—a hilarious and wonderfully Yorkshire game! Thoroughly deserved! Read more: tinyurl.com/from-Barnsle...

You can do it! 💪🩷💜🩷

We’re thrilled to welcome our new Trustees to The BGI, bringing expertise across culture, videogames, and more. These strategic appointments will help us expand our national impact and strengthen our mission as the UK’s only museum dedicated to videogame history and culture. Read more: thebgi.uk

At GDC on Wed, March 19 at 3pm, VGHF founder Frank Cifaldi will be presenting Preserving Game History: It's Just Us, a sort of state-of-the-industry keynote about Frank's 25 years in game history & what it actually takes to preserve our past, present, and future: schedule.gdconf.com/session/pres...

Taking a break from my job working at a videogame museum to, erm...play a videogame about working at a museum. @twopointstudios.bsky.social Wish me luck, folks. I wonder if there's a documentation backlog...

I've registered for this, sounds fascinating!

All PRESENTATIONS from the conference Cataloging, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Games (25.-26. Nov 2024 in Prague) are NOW ONLINE. Actually it was one of the biggest gatherings of the game GLAM sector so far 😍 many of them EFGAMP members 🙌 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #gamimgculturalheritage

The Video Game History Foundation’s digital library is now publicly available in early access form. The library includes promotional material and more than 1,500 out-of-print magazines. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...

This is the kind of stuff I love finding during inventory. I haven't seen anything that extensive so far in our collection, but I've spotted a handwritten diagram to fast-track research into rifling in Civ 2, and some potion recipes on the back of a photocopy from a medical textbook.

New role for 2025?⁠ ⁠ Are you passionate about videogames, culture and education? Do you have the strategic vision and experience to support a growing national charity?⁠ ⁠ There's still time to apply to join us in the role of Trustee at @thebgi.bsky.social, the governing charity of The NVM.