The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is Oakland’s Video Game Museum. Known simply as “The MADE,” they host free programming classes for kids, playable exhibitions of historically significant works, lectures, tournaments, game development parties and community events. The MADE is a non-profit, 501c3, dedicated to the preservation of video game history, and to educating the public as to how video games are created.

Play

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!

Learn

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!