Preservation societies / galleries

[bobjuan]

Are there any known locations where games and game hardware are properly preserved for archival purposes, such as a museum/gallery dedicated to games? Perhaps even put on display for exhibition? There are places such as the MADE (https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Museum-of-Art-and-Digital-Entertainment/151525434925109) and I think Stanford University has one of the US's largest collections of gaming hardware and software, but does anyone know of similar places dedicated to the notion of preserving gaming history?

[Jamtex]

http://www.barbican.org.uk/bie/exhibitions/game-on

http://www.icheg.org/

Are probably the two most well known, the former travelling the world, the latter being part of the museum of play.

[Tchoin]

Interesting, always wondered if such thing existed (preservation societies).

http://www.icheg.org/ -> This one looks pretty interesting.

[Cyantist]

There is the National Media Museum in Bradford, typically it's only really had video forms of media, but a few years back it made a video game section, perhaps it now preserves video games?