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Collection Organizing July 2025
ORGANIZATION: The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
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Hello prospective volunteers. Would you kindly help preserve video game history? The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment needs your help. We have a huge collection of over 20,000 physical artifacts in our care. Most of it comes from a steady stream of donations from folks. We have over 15 years worth of donations of artifacts numbering in the tens of thousands to recatalog and sort to fit the needs of the current incarnation of the museum. It takes time and effort to organize the collection so that we can make it accessible to the public. This is where you come in. If you can volunteer your time for one day this July 19th we can get this collection sorted.
The MADE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009. We started as a simple idea to make an art museum where video games can be played. Since then we have been blessed with the generosity of the community to take on their video game collections they no longer have the need to hold on to, so others may experience the works that shaped their lives. Using these donations we build exhibits, take classic games to schools, and share this history with the world. Like many museums and history foundations, we have huge archival debt. So, we often rely on the help of volunteers. Over the last year we have already rapidly cataloged 5000 games, and made digital copies of many of them for long term preservation. Organizing our external storage can help speed up this process even further.
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About The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment
Location:
921 Washington Street, Oakland, CA 94607, US
Mission Statement
The MADE works to uphold the history of Games and Digital Art through playable preservation. We want to inspire and educate future game developers and artists by creating a safe space for our community to grow.
Description
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.
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 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.
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.
Over more than a decade, the MADE has sought to legitimize the preservation of video games as a historic, cultural, and artistic medium within the context of our time. Visitors to the MADE have access to play any of our collection of over 14,000 games across 40+ systems, on-demand. Through exhibitions, events, and exposition, these games are exposed as works of art, with the processes behind their creation brought to light for the first time in a true, interactive, museum setting.
CAUSE AREAS
Arts & Culture,
Community,
Computers & Technology
WHEN
Sat Jul 26, 2025
10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
WHERE
921 Washington StreetOakland, CA 94607
(37.80199 ,-122.27435 )
DATE POSTED
May 29, 2025
SKILLS
- Library Sciences
- Data Entry
- Curating
- Computer Science
- History
- Basic Computer Skills
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 8 hours
- Children are welcome with a parent or guardian also volunteering.