The Museum of Videoigara History opened in the center of Zagreb
More than 3000 attractive exhibits from the video game world are located in a museum whose conceptual initiator, founder and curator Damir Šlogar, a Croatian entrepreneur with enviable business successes in the VideoGarar sector, an authority of the international rank in this area, and a returnee from Canada. The opening of the museum is the realization of the vision of its founder who spent more than 40 years in the gaming industry!
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The new museum, designed and realized in all rules of the museum profession, will significantly enrich the tourist and cultural offer of Zagreb. One of the ways in which the Museum of the VideoGar history will enrich the cultural scene of the capital are special events, guest lectures and meetings with the most influential persons from this industry, especially since the Croatian gaming industry makes a significant part of the creative sector in our country.
– Video games are an integral part of my life, and through this museum I want to share that passion with the world, especially with younger generations that may not have experienced the magic of early days of video games. In addition, video games have long been part of contemporary culture. This museum aims to educate, inspire and entertain visitors through an exciting journey into the history of video games. Furthermore, the museum is 100 percent privately funded. It is a very personal project where I was not ready for a lot of compromise, so I didn’t even try to look for alternative funding sources. When we start working and show that this is a very serious project that is not yet in Europe, we hope for wider support – says Damir Šlogar.
Zagreb: Opening of Museum of Videoigara History |
Exhibits, accompanied by interactive content that allow visitors to experience the past of the video games live themselves live, cover the period of video game industry from the late 1960s to the beginning of this millennium. This collection, which in many ways, is a unique exhibition in this part of Europe and that ultimately extends to over 800 square meters of space on a total of three floors, Damir Šlogar has been collecting museum for almost three decades.
Gaming treasure that the new museum offers is games that can be played, including Space invaders (1978), asteroids (1979) and Pac-Man (1980); More than three thousand games and a hundred game platforms; Some of the rarest exhibitions that can be seen in museums like this, such as the first video game – Tennis for Two (1958), the first commercially available video games – Computer Space (1971), the first home video game console – Magnavox Odyssey (1972), the first commercially successful video game – Pong (1972) Microvision (1979).
The museum also boasts one of the most comprehensive video games of some of the key publishers and franchises such as Elite (Firebird), Ultimate Play The Game, Diablo, Warcraft, Ever Quest, Strategic Simulations, Cinemaware, Bulllfrog, Origin Sestums, Lucas Arts and many others. Visitors can also play games on rare and unique platforms such as, for example, Atari Lynx, Nintendo Virtual Boy and Vecterex, which was difficult or almost impossible to meet in « real life ». And, finally, as a curiosity, a Museum of Videoigar History, it boasts the largest Pac-man in the world and the smallest tetris of the world.
As the collection is actually constantly expanding with the procurement of new artifacts and how the permanent exhibition is only part of the entire Šlogar collection of interesting historical exhibitions in this area, the Museum of VideoGar’s history will be able to be « refreshed » through new exhibitions and themed exhibitions, and thus become the occasion for re -visit.
Who is the founder? Damir Slogar has been in the video game industry for more than 40 years, and has been creating more than half of this internship in the centers of the industry-Canada and the USA. The pioneer, now the veteran of this exciting world. He has worked on more than 150 titles, including globally popular series: Shrek, Barbie, Battlefield and My Singing Monsters. The founder, and also the curator, does not only want to show the evolution of video games, but also its impact on technology and pop culture.
Zagreb: Opening of Museum of Videoigara History |
The Museum of the History of Videoigar in Zagreb, located in Draskovic 10, is dedicated to the preservation and display of the evolution of video games and gaming culture from 1960s to the early 2000s. The curator of the Museum is the veteran Gaming industry Damir Šlogar, the owner of one of the world’s largest private collections of video games, first computers, playing consoles, arcades, artwork and rare memorabilia. The museum aims to educate, inspire and entertain visitors through an exciting journey into the history of video games.
