We've partnered with @claymatic.games, to enhance our 2025 educational strategy. Thanks to their generous donation, we’re deepening our support for learners across the region, bringing high-quality, curriculum-linked STEAM learning to life through the power of videogames. thenvm.org/blog/from-cl...

Did you know, the National Videogame Museum is the UK’s only museum dedicated entirely to videogames? The perfect place for families, gamers, and curious minds to explore the past, present, and future of play. 📍 Sheffield thenvm.org #RetroGaming #FamilyFun #SheffieldDaysOut #visitsheffield

Join us as Chair of The National Videogame Museum!⁠ ⁠ Are you passionate about videogames, culture, and education? Do you have the strategic vision and experience to lead a growing national charity? Join us and help shape the future of our work.⁠ ⁠ thenvm.org/about/work-w...

Join us from the 25th August and build your own. Exclusive LEGO controller to take home! Link in bio #visitsheffield #lego #YourGameYourBuild #LEGOvideogames #summerholidays

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

We had the pleasure of hosting a visit from @claymatic.games this week. We showed them our Make It! Play It! Exhibition featuring their soon to be released game Platypus Reclayed! We also showed them the amazing clay models and animations our visitors have created since our exhibition launched!

It’s your last chance to book onto our Build a Controller & Defeat the Aliens workshop tomorrow at the Barnsley Civic. Build A Controller & Defeat The Aliens Workshop Tuesday 5 August, 1:00pm - 2:00pm Designed for ages 10 - 16. Last chance to book barnsleycivic.co.uk/.../build-a-...

Unleash your creativity in our Make It! Play It! Workshops Create your own characters and use stop motion animation to bring them to life in our clay modelling drop-in workshop. Play it. Make it. Book it.⁠ thenvm.org/make-it-play-it/ #MakeItPlayIt #OneTicketPlayAllSummer #claymation

Check out the techniques behind Platypus Reclayed exclusively at the NVM this summer and have a go at your own stop-motion claymation! 🚀

Visit us and be one of the first to play this awesome game as part of our Make It! Play It! Exhibition. Find out more the NVM.org/make-it-play-it

ありがとう Arigato. What a success! We’re so delighted to be back from Japan after so much positive engagement. Invited by the Department for Business and Trade, we curated a response to the World Expo 2025 theme of ‘Designing Future Society for our Lives’.

Platypus Reclayed is in @nvmuk.bsky.social National Videogame Museum's new Make it! Play it! Exhibition! Discover how games are made from LEGO, embroidery and clay (like us!) Read more (and wishlist) 👾✨🚀 store.steampowered.com/news/app/291... #platypusreclayed #gamedev #nationalvideogamemuseum

Konnichiwa こんにちは We are thrilled to have landed in Osaka for World Expo 2025! Install of ‘Videogames Transforming Lives’ is now in full flow. With bold graphics, designed to engage audiences of all nationalities, we’re excited to be unveiling exhibits of inclusive and innovative UK game design.

In the final of our partner series in the run up to ‘Videogames Transforming Lives’ at Expo 2025 in Osaka, we highlight the Power of Play. Curated by the NVM team, PowerWash Simulator, Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Dunk Dunk emphasise the wealth of talent and creativity in the UK’s gaming industry ⬇️

Thanks to our Board member and @ukieofficial.bsky.social CEO, Nick Poole OBE, for mentioning us in his BBC Breakfast conversation this morning. We certainly share his passion for retro games and the affordability it can offer players. Watch the full interview below ⬇️

In the second of our partner series in the run up to ‘Videogames Transforming Lives’ at Expo 2025 in Osaka, we are celebrating acclaimed UK studio @ustwogames.co.uk! Working with the studio, the National Videogame Museum elected to highlight the award winning Monument Valley ⬇️

One ticket. Play all summer. For the first time ever, we’re introducing a new offer - unlimited visits to the National Videogame Museum from 24th July to 1st September. ✅ One ticket ✅ Unlimited visits ✅ All summer long! 👉 Tag someone who needs this in their summer plans! thenvm.org/playallsummer/

It’s one week until the NVM presents ‘Videogames Transforming Lives’ at Expo 25 Osaka! In the run up, we will be sharing our excitement with partner content and special previews from Japan. Partner focus - our first exhibit was made with @specialeffect.org.uk and celebrates inclusive design ⬇️

This summer, the game begins with you! We’re busy installing your summer of fun ☀️ Get ready for Make It! Play It! and explore the making that powers play with our brand new exhibition. Launching 24th July with @claymatic.games, @lego-group.bsky.social and more! thenvm.org/make-it-play...

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

Pleased to collaborate with @baftagames.bsky.social on this event celebrating local studios! With a welcome by SY Mayor, Oliver Coppard, a panel chaired by @lukethehebble.bsky.social had insights from @pitstop-audio.bsky.social, Steel City Interactive, @coalsupper.bsky.social and Sumo Digital!

📣 Join Our Team 📣 We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.⁠ This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.⁠ 🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025 thenvm.org/about/work-w...

🏎 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/

📣 Join Our Team 📣 We're looking for a creative, dynamic individual to join us as Marketing and Communications Manager.⁠ This new role will help shape the Museum’s voice, connect with diverse audiences, and grow our reach and impact.⁠ 🗓 Deadline: 9am, Mon 2nd June 2025 thenvm.org/about/work-w...

📣 Join Our Crew 📣 We're looking for up to 3 friendly Crew members to help deliver amazing visitor experiences. This is a great opportunity to join a unique cultural organisation celebrating and sharing the world of videogames! Learn more and apply: thenvm.org/about/work-w...

#DunkDunkGame is still on show in the Multiplayer Madness event at @nvmuk.bsky.social in Sheffield until Monday, you should get down there and play some games. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames thenvm.org/multiplayer-...

Our amazing Learning Officer, @leaheline.bsky.social is taking on the 2025 London Marathon and she’s doing it to raise vital funds for the NVM! She’s putting in the miles to support our work preserving gaming history, delivering educational programmes, and our outreach projects.

Join the Madness at the NVM! We’re open from 10am as usual! While our online booking is down (blame the gremlins 🐛), Multiplayer Madness is going strong with loads of activities to enjoy! Grab your tickets at the box office – our brilliant team will help you out. Cash payments are extra helpful!

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...

🚨 We're open as usual! Come meet a Beast! 🚨 Our online booking system is currently down, however, tickets are available for walk-ins with great availability! Tons of fun for all ages in our Multiplayer Madness Easter Programme, including a chance to meet a Gang Beast! 🕹️🎉 See you at the NVM! 👾

We’re here at New Game Plus for @gameslondon.bsky.social with a very special first edition of Joystick Roadshow featuring items from the NVM and Sir Ian Livingstone! What wonderful insights into truly unique items!

We’re excited to announce an additional game our Easter holidays programme - Dunk Dunk! Published by @playtonicgames.com, Dunk Dunk is a multiplayer action basketball arcade party game packed with chaotic fun. It is developed by Badgerhammer Games, two dads who created it to play with their kids!

We were thrilled to host @gamerepublic.bsky.social's GR Unreal Engine Special event last night. This brilliant event featured valuable insights on programming, audio, art, and Unreal Engine. We also heard an inspiring story behind a smash hit game, Undisputed! There was even time for some gaming!

Fab Unreal Engine Special event @nvmuk.bsky.social #gamedev - www.linkedin.com/posts/game-r...

Excited for our sold out Unreal Engine Special today at the National Videogame Museum underway! Great presentations in store from Steel City Interactive, Red Kite Games, Tanglewood Games, Cooperative Innovations Ltd, Brickmouse and Epic Games and an expo #gamedev #unrealengine #epic

Good luck Leah! You'll do amazing and your support and dedication to the Museum means the world to us! Check our @leaheline.bsky.social's fundraiser ⬇ www.justgiving.com/page/leah-du...

Join an amazing panel of industry experts hosted by Sir Ian Livingstone as they discuss a decade of gaming at the London Games Festival on the 3rd April. We’re also very excited to home the time capsule of gaming predictions sealed until 2035! Find out more about the event below ⬇ #LGF25

Really thrilled to be joining The National Videogame Museum as a new Trustee! I can’t wait to start working together. @nvmuk.bsky.social @thebgi.bsky.social thebgi.uk/2025/03/24/t...

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

We're very excited for some Multiplayer Madness here at the NVM starting next Saturday 😁

Boneloaf's amazing Gangbeasts will headline the Multiplayer Madness event @nvmuk.bsky.social National Videogame Museum from March 29th Read all about the event - a celebration of multiplayer games here gamerepublic.net/featured-eve... #gamedev

📣🎮 Calling all videogame collectors! 🎮📣 Do you own a rare gaming gem or hidden memorabilia? Then this event is for you! Share your prized gaming treasures for a chance to showcase them at the Joystique Roadshow at the @gameslondon.bsky.social’s 10th anniversary!

We're excited to be at Get Up To Speed with STEM2025 at Magna Science Adventure Centre on 19-20 March! Participants can explore local videogame opportunities with Gang Beasts, discover career paths, compete in high score challenges, and discover NVM workshops. More info: www.getuptospeed.org.uk

A very remarkable contribution that points to the importance of cooperation between the cultural heritage sector, the fans and the games industry itself #gamingculturalheritage

We're very excited to be hosting the the northern semi-final of @ukieofficial.bsky.social Digital Schoolhouse's Splatoon 3 Esports Tournament today! Welcome and good luck to all teams taking part visiting us from England, Northern Ireland and Scotland! Have fun everyone!

🎮🎉 Happy Mario Day! 🎉🎮 Today we celebrate Super Mario, the iconic plumber! From Super Mario Bros. to his latest adventures, Mario has brought joy and unforgettable moments to gamers worldwide. ❓ What's your favourite Mario game or memory ❓

We recently welcomed videogames journalist @georgeosborn.bsky.social to the National Videogame Museum, where he spoke with Co-CEO @johnoshea.bsky.social and Collections Officer Ann Wain. A tour of our galleries highlighted the importance of museums in preserving this vibrant medium. 1/3

We're very excited to be hosting the Semi-Finals of Digital Schoolhouse's Splatoon 3 Esports Tournament on the 11th March! The tournament, which is the UK's largest school esports event, is an initiative delivered by @ukieofficial.bsky.social and we're proud to be part of this event. 📸 Joe Brady

🎮 Celebrating A Nintendo Legend 🕹 Today marks the fifth anniversary since the late, great Nintendo Engineer and Videogame Producer, Masayuki Uemura visited the NVM in 2020. With a career spanning over 30 years, he was most famous for his work leading Nintendo's Research and Development 2 team.