#museumology

[aliceunderskies]

Genetically modified budgies and plaster casts of horse's teeth, from a review of the "Making Nature" exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. (http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/23/our-animal-history-making-nature/)

[thearchivehermit]

Finally getting to update this account ✌️😂 but I have the absolutely honor now as a masters student to produce a virtual exhibit with the Smithsonian American History Museum!!! I wanna try and use this blog to trace my thought processes on it all but we shall see 🤓 I'm terrible at doing this lol

[museumhive]

[overthinkingvideogames]

Back to the future: Preserving the history of video games

Video games aren't made to last.

The vast majority of floppy discs aren't readable by today's computers. Hardly a year goes by before another online game disconnects its servers, closing its doors to faithful players. Small teams of independent developers release their titles on digital marketplaces without any physical copies to accompany them.

In a digital age where data erodes faster than it can be stored, the collected creativity of thousands of developers could someday be lost for good — unless we find a way to preserve it.

To most people, history means looking to the past. But to the researchers and archivists at the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, history means opening their eyes to watch it unfold all around them.

They're analyzing. Researching. Taking it all in. They're recording it as they go. They're creating a library — half physical, half digital — to chronicle the ongoing evolution of video games.

The men and women of the ICHEG are hard at work. The process is anything but stable. But they're learning as they go, adapting with the project, going with the flow.

And it's a lot harder than they thought it would be.