a museum dedicated to the anthropology of board games and game play

Museum of Game Science

History
Mission
Collection
Is This the End?
Backgammon variants were played thousands of years ago in Northern Africa and the Mediterranean. (Photo by Museum of Game Science)
Pachisi variants have been played for thousands of years in India and other asian countries. (Photo by Museum of Game Science)
Regatta was created in 1969 because kids were having all the fun, and adults wanted in on the action. (Photo by Museum of Game Science)

Grown men preparing to lay siege a hundred and fifty years ago. (From the book Little Wars by HG Wells)

A brief history of the Museum of Game science

We were established Twelve years ago with the recognition that no other public institution was dedicated to the preservation and celebration of board games in the United States.

Under our previous name , the Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery, we began in our first location, off Hall boulevard in Beaverton. Then we moved to King City off highway 99. IMOGAP has helped fifty thousand humans recall, play, and learn about board games.

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The Royal Game of Ur, like most ancient games, has no contemporaneously written rules. (Photo by the British Museum)

the mission of the Museum of Game science

Playing games is older than writing. We believe the exploration of ideas that are modeled by games and puzzles can produce common ground, encourage creativity, and enhance learning.

We celebrate the aesthetic, historic and functional beauty of structured play and its components. We seek to reach a hand across every social, economic, and cultural boundary to engage other humans in structured play.

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The Royal Game of Ur, like most ancient games, has no contemporaneously written rules. (Photo by the British Museum)

the collection of the Museum of Game science

Our collection is nearly Ten Thousand board games

Until COVID this was the largest publicly accessible collection in the United States. Through the diligence of many volunteers and donors the collection has grown over the years and now comprises games from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and South America.

We have sub-collections devoted to Collectible Trading Cards, Bookshelf games, Role Playing by mail in the 1970s, Gambling, Wine games, Word games, War games, Floor Games, Table games, Tabletop games, and Arcade games.

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The Royal Game of Ur, like most ancient games, has no contemporaneously written rules. (Photo by the British Museum)

is this the end of the Museum of Game science?

Under our previous name , the Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery, we were established Twelve years ago with the recognition that no other public institution was dedicated to the preservation and celebration of board games in the United States.

First in our location off Hall boulevard in Beaverton, and then in King City off highway 99, IMOGAP has helped thousands of humans recall, play, and learn about board games.

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