Museum News
June 21, 2021
Ed Smith, an engineer who worked on the APF MP-1000 (1978) video game console and Imagination Machine (1979), tours the musuem's video game collections.
June 15, 2021
Fellowship recipient Neil Lerner from Davidson College in North Carolina visits The Strong to research the sounds of pinball machines.
June 8, 2021
Fellowship recipient Kate Willaert visits The Strong to research playable female protagonists in video games from 1980 to 1989.
June 4, 2021
The Strong publishes the latest issue of its peer-reviewed American Journal of Play.
May 23, 2021
Fellowship recipient Krystal Starke, a doctoral student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, examines The Strong's collections to inform a dissertation on play-based learning in children with autism.
May 21, 2021
USA Today readers name The Strong one of the top 10 family museums in the United States.
May 6, 2021
The World Video Game Hall of Fame inducts Animal Crossing, Microsoft Flight Simulator, StarCraft, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? into the class of 2021.
April 21, 2021
The Strong breaks ground on phase two of its major expansion project.
March 18, 2021
The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame announces the 12 finalists for induction: Animal Crossing, Call of Duty, FarmVille, FIFA International Soccer, Guitar Hero, Mattel Football, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Pole Position, Portal, StarCraft, Tron, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
March 10, 2021
The Strong participates in Music, Makers & Machines, a virtual exhibit experience about the history of electronic music through Google Arts & Culture and YouTube.
March 8, 2021
ESL Federal Credit Union committs $1.5 million to The Strong's expansion project and acquires naming rights to Digital Worlds exhibit.
February 23, 2021
The Strong receives a donation from the family of Buffalo-native Ralph Coppola (1948–2018), president of the coin-operated game developer and manufacturer Innovative Concepts in Entertainment (ICE) and manufacturer of the iconic Chexx (1982) “bubble hockey” game.