Best Ethnographic Museum Oakland Near Me

4worldlovers: 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.

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!

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. Learn more about our classes here!

First and foremost, video games are meant to be played and enjoyed. Our all-playable exhibits offer visitors a way to step through decades of history, directly interacting with digital experiences from the past. Whether it's nostalgia, a way to play a game we haven't played before, or an outing with some friends, we encourage you to have fun! And when we teach our classes, this space becomes a playable laboratory where students study interactive design through the ages.

Upstairs, we host our volunteer meetings, our speaker series (MADE Forum), our education programs (MADE Classroom), and our Indie Gamedev Coworking. Across the stairs, you'll find our collection, a 1000 square foot section filled to the brink with artifacts spanning across all areas of game development.