The National Videogame Museum, located in Frisco, Texas, is a magical haven of vintage and retro gaming stuff saved from children’s cellars around the world. Unlike most museums, however, it allows you to touch things, as they explain in their mission statement:
Video games are meant to be played and that is the thinking behind each of the museum’s exhibitions. This means that we will do everything in our power to allow museum users to have the opportunity to actually PLAY as many games as possible during their visit to the National Video Game Museum.
It looks like our kind of museum. But now we all have a chance to be a part of it forever, sending our Animal Crossing: New Horizons islands for NVM’s “Animal Crossing Diaries”, where they hope to document the response to COVID-19 as it happened within Tom Nook’s little piece of heaven.
It is no surprise that the cultural moment that was Animal Crossing during a pandemic is worthy of a museum: we had celebrities maddened by the game (they are like us!), IKEA companies at LEGO recreating their products in the AC: NH world and creative innovators designing wrinkles, vitiligo and stretch marks in the game to better represent the diversity of your players.
You can submit your island and / or answer a few questions to the National Videogame Museum on its special Animal Crossing website, and while there is no guarantee that it will make it to the final exhibition, it is your chance to be part of the story (and show off the lush landscaping)!