I have long harboured a dream of being able to display some of my collection publically, along with interactive displays and educational material. It's not something I'll be able to do myself but it would be fantastic to have opportunity to display somewhere.
I did go along to a recent hands-on exhibition at Capital-E here in Wellington called
Virtual Adventure which featured consoles and a couple of arcade cabs, including PS1, N64, Atari Flashback, PS3 and a few Wiis. It actually inspired me to reconsider the PS1 as old enough to class as something I'm interested in
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It was good, but I felt I could have done a better job of it from my own collection except for the recent consoles. I'd like to have a bit of information about the machines on display.
I suspect we're going to end up in a similar position to the guys that restore and run
steam trains,
trams and
busses, or the
Taranaki Aviation, Transport and Technology Museum guys (See some of
my photos); a bunch of enthusiasts going it alone. The trick will be to get enough people together in one place to make it viable, and find somewhere cheap to do it. I'm in Wellington.
Incidentally, as far as "museum quality" goes, a museum preservationist my wife asked said that if the intention is to preserve museum exhibits then they should be kept in original condition as far as possible, i.e. not restoring with Retr0brite etc. If the intention is more of a display then restoration is fine. He was impressed with the research that had gone into retr0brite
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