Museo do Videoxogo
Interactive museum on fifty years of video game history, with special attention to Galician video games, in the old town of Cangas.
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About the museum
The Museo do Videoxogo, known as MUVI, grew out of the project “Barité Museo”, which Galo and Jacobo Martínez created between 2007 and 2008 to preserve a small collection of video game devices. Over the following decade the holdings grew thanks to collaborations and small cultural and business activities.
The museum opened on 2 February 2019 and presents itself as the first video game museum in Spain. Since its opening it has focused on Galician video games, culture and art as the pillars of its offer.
On 2 March 2020 the Fundación Museo do Videoxogo de Galicia was established, and on 20 July 2020 it was recognised as a Fundación de Interés Gallego (Galician Interest Foundation) by the Consellería de Cultura y Turismo of the Xunta de Galicia. The foundation promotes video games as a form of culture and art and as an educational tool.
The exhibition covers more than 300 m² and brings together thousands of video games, preserved hardware pieces and Galician video games that have been preserved and can be played.
Highlights
- Main exhibition on some fifty years of video game history
- Section dedicated to Galician video games
- Habitación de la Memoria (Memory Room)
- Experimentation area
- Arcade room
Permanent exhibitions
- Exposición principal – Interactive tour through some fifty years of video game history in more than 300 m² of space.
- Videoxogo Galego – Section dedicated to the history and production of video games in Galicia.
- Founded
- 2019
- Operated by
- Fundación Museo do Videoxogo de Galicia
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €8 |
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| Free admission with guided tour | freeGuided tour on the hour at 17:00, 18:00, 19:00 and 20:00, covering the main exhibition, Galician video games and all the spaces. |
Full access (€8): immediate and interactive entry to the main exhibition, Galician video games, the Habitación de la Memoria, the experimentation area and the arcade room, with admission for five hours and guided tours throughout the afternoon. 50% discount for “Amigos del MUVI” (Friends of MUVI).
Accessibility
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Kids & families
- Family tours & workshops
Interactive workshops for educational centres and groups.
Getting there & parking
By public transit
Cangas can be reached by boat from Vigo or by bus from Pontevedra and other towns in the comarca.
By car
Free parking · 2-min walk to the entrance
Free public car park with unpaved surface, about a 2-minute walk from the museum.
The museum is at the start of the old town of Cangas.
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Events & venue rental
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | For groups and educational centres there are personalised visits by prior appointment, with interactive workshops on topics such as women, music, cinema, literature, comics, video game development and the healthy use of video games. Bookings are managed at visitas.muvi.gal. |
