Established | 1997 | (reopened 2011 )
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Dissolved | 2000 | (original exhibition)
Location | Karl-Marx-Allee, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany |
Coordinates | 52°31′03″N 13°26′31″E / 52.5176°N 13.4419°E |
Type | Video game museum |
Collection size | >37,000 items |
Owner | Booster Club for Youth and Social Work |
Website | www.computerspielemuseum.de |
The Computerspielemuseum (German for Computer Game Museum) is a German video game museum founded in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, it had a permanent exhibition in Berlin. Afterward, it became an online-only museum. In 2011, the museum reopened its permanent exhibition in Berlin's neighborhood of Friedrichshain, on Karl-Marx-Allee. During the first month of its permanent exhibition, it had 12,000 visitors.[citation needed]