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Museum: How The Smithsonian Is Embracing Games  A welcome sign
of mainstream culture accepting the relevance of interactive
entertainment, The Smithsonian Museum hosted a panel today
highlighting how games have begun to influence even the most
traditional of establishments. The mantra of the Smithsonian is
to collect pieces of significant visual culture, and looking to
the future they expect to expand into the video game realm.
Today, the Smithsonian proudly revealed IDEA! The Art of Video
Games, an exhibit planned for the Smithsonian for 2012. The goal
of the exhibit will be to create an exhibition that examines the
evolution of video games as an artistic medium over time and
demonstrates how social dialogue, cultural shift and technology
impact the medium. They also hope to establish video games as a
medium worthy of examination, critique and study as an art form,
and to further bring validation and preservation to an industry
that we all car