This museum, which is not scheduled to open before 2023 or 2024, will be located a few kilometers from downtown Kyoto (western Japan), where Nintendo is headquartered.
It will be installed on the grounds of a former factory where Nintendo notably made “hanafuda,” the traditional Japanese playing cards, which were its primary business when it was founded in 1889, long before they were launched into video games.
The museum, with the provisional name of “Galerie Nintendo,” will display, according to the group’s English statement, “the many products Nintendo has launched during its history,” and is a way to “share with the public the history of product development and Nintendo’s philosophy.”
The statement said interactive experiences should also be available.
Nintendo took its first steps in video games in 1977 with the launch of TV Game 15 and TV Game 6 for home consoles, at the same time developing terminals and arcade games, such as Donkey Kong, which was released in 1981.
He then achieved worldwide success with the Famicom console launched in Japan in 1983, known abroad by the acronym NES (Nintendo Entertainment System).
Last March, the company also opened its world’s first amusement park, at the massive theme park at Universal Japan Studios (USJ) in Osaka, western Japan.
