What you can expect when Together We Play comes to Sheffield's National Videogame Museum
You can also hear from Sheffield residents and explore their creativity through the ‘Sheffield of Stories’ project
The National Videogame Museum’s new summer exhibition is putting the spotlight on fans and celebrating videogame communities.
On the July 18, ‘Together We Play’ launches to celebrate the communities, collections, friendships, and spaces created through a shared love of videogames, all with the support of the BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund.
At the heart of the exhibition is a specially commissioned mural, created by Sheffield artist William Exley. The ‘Your Videogame Stories’ mural celebrates player stories and memories, collected from hundreds of conversations with players and fans across the UK.
There is also a sample of personal collections including a Guinness World-Record-breaking Tomb Raider games library and a curated selection from the Mario museum.
You can also hear from Sheffield residents and explore their creativity through the ‘Sheffield of Stories’ project - a recreation of our city in Minecraft - created in collaboration with artist Adam Clarke, Sheffield DocFest and the people of Sheffield.
Visitors can step back in time and revisit places where many gaming memories began with Lee Smithson’s crafted miniature 1980s living room, complete with an iconic Commodore 64, or play together in the immersive 1990s-inspired play space, featuring Doom (1993). You could also challenge your friends and family to a game of Mario Kart Wii from the 2000s.
John O’Shea, creative director and co-CEO, National Videogame Museum says: “Videogames are now a huge global industry so it is incredibly important to acknowledge the players, fans and communities who bring videogames alive through play. In this exhibition memories, stories and personal fan collections are celebrated as central to videogame culture.”
Marta Berto, BFI Screen Heritage fund manager said: “We were excited to support the National Videogame Museum’s highly culturally ambitious project Behind the Screens, which comprises this exhibition and other upcoming sector-focused and audience-facing programmes of activity. It’s brilliant to watch how the museum weaves the thread of gathering diverse perspectives throughout, with its attention to representation and the creative, communal, and collaborative nature of creating and playing videogames”.
And, back for its second year, visitors can enjoy the fun again and again with the museum’s ‘One Ticket. Play All Summer’ offer. Enjoy unlimited return visits from 18th July - 1st September 2026.
Together We Play opens to the public at the National Videogame Museum on Saturday, July 18.
National Videogame Museum, Castle House
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