Video game exhibitions required for public museums

Case studies from local public museum

Abstract

Many local public museums in Japan have held exhibitions showing video game machines and related secondary materials. However, these exhibitions introduce video game machines, therefore they do not fully utilize the characteristics of local public museums or the expertise of curators. In this paper, we will look back into the past exhibitions and propose a specific method of exhibit video game machines, etc., in local museums and to get rid of the chronological exhibition that shows only the history.