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  1. Re:Slashdotted, but their gopher server is quicker by CronoCloud · · Score: 1 · on America's First Video Game Museum Is Trying To Level Up

    Ah it's extremely slow, but will come up eventually. Their gopher server is faster. Yes they have one of those too. You'll need a gopher to web proxy, the OverbiteFF addon or something like lynx to see that:

    gopher://themade.org/

  2. Museum of Art & Digital Entertainment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s)

    If you've got old video games these guys probably want it. They generally don't have space for large items like arcade cabinets though.

  3. Another geek museum by xandroid · · Score: 1 · on Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum

    http://themade.org/
    Still in nascent phases, but a geek museum nonetheless.

  4. 2 museums in the Bay Area by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Computer History Museum Gets the Attention It Deserves

    Besides the computer history museum, there's also The MADE a video game museum. I'm not sure which one is "the most nerdy of museums".

  5. The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment by VonGuard · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity?

    If you want your money to go really, really far, I have to recommend the videogame museum we started here in downtown Oakland. We raised $20,000 on Kickstarter and 100% of that money has gone to rent, Internet, and insurance. We've not spent a dime on anything except those expenses. Everything else in the museum is donated, save for the meager tables and shelves we have, which we purchased via funds donated by people visiting the museum (About $400).

    Any funds donated to the MADE will be used to continue to keep the doors open. Why is that important? Because we are offering free programming classes for local inner city kids. We currently only have 2 teachers, but we're looking for more. Those teachers spend 1 hour teaching the kids MIT Scratch, then a second hour teaching Python.

    Of course, we also have exhibits, events, talks, and adult classes, but all of those are just icing on the cake for our "everything playable" videogame museum. The real change the world part of our organization are our classes. We've only been open since November, but with some more monetary donations and volunteers, we'll be able to expand our classes in 2012, and maybe even offer after school programs instead of just weekend classes.

    Oh, and we're 100% volunteer run.

    http://www.themade.org/