The Strong Museum

@Paps716 Who knew the National Toy Hall of Fame included the 2025-26 Buffalo Sabres??🤔

Just making sure these museum friends are caught up on Sabres highlights before the playoff run begins! Good luck in the postseason, Buffalo! ⚔️🦬🏒 #MuseumOfPlay #RochesterNY #Wagon #Sabrehood #Buffalo #Sabres #LetsGoBuffalo

Make your mark on video game history!🎮🕹️ Vote for the World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists that you believe deserve to be inducted this year. Vote once per day, voting closes at midnight on March 12. museumofplay.org/players-choice… #WorldVideoGameHallOfFame

The 2026 World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists! Vote for Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA International Soccer, Frogger, Galaga, League of Legends, Mega Man, PaRappa the Rapper, RuneScape, Silent Hill, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, or Tokimeki Memorial at museumofplay.org/players-choice…

The puzzle board that Vanna White used on "Wheel of Fortune" until 1997 is set to be the centerpiece of a new game show exhibit at The Strong National Museum of Play. 13wham.com/news/local/whe…

The hand-turn puzzle board used on Wheel of Fortune until 1997 arrived in Rochester on Monday, continuing preparations for The Strong Museum's game show exhibit. READ MORE: rochesterfirst.com/news/local-new…

Save the Games: A Digital Preservation Symposium will bring together international leaders in video game preservation on July 29 & 30. The Strong invites presentation proposals of about 15–20 mins in length on preservation topics with a Feb. 20 deadline. museumofplay.org/save-the-games…

Save the Games: A Digital Preservation Symposium will bring together international leaders in video game preservation on July 29 & 30. The Strong invites presentation proposals of about 15–20 mins in length on preservation topics with a Feb. 20 deadline. museumofplay.org/save-the-games…

Happy Veterans Day from The Strong Museum! The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Use your active-military or veteran ID for free admission for service members and a $5 discount on general admission for everyone in your party. Thank you for your service!

The 2025 National Toy Hall of Fame inductees have been announced. Battleship, slime and Trivial Pursuit will be inducted into the class of 2025. today.com/popculture/202…

Slime, that gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything, and bestselling games Battleship and Trivial Pursuit have been enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of Play. 13wham.com/news/entertain…

🤩The 2025 National Toy Hall of Fame class🤩! Congratulations to Trivial Pursuit, Battleship, and Slime on reaching legendary status securing their spots in the National Toy Hall of fame! #TrivialPursuit #Battleship #Slime #NationalToyHallOfFame #NTHoF #ToyHallOfFame

Here they are! The 2025 National Toy Hall of Fame finalists🤩. Which finalist do you think deserves a spot in the Hall of Fame? Vote for your favorite at museumofplay.org/players-choice…

Toy Hall of Fame reveals 2025 finalists ow.ly/tOfJ106lVtz

The @museumofplay in #ROC has announced the 12 finalists for induction into National Toy Hall of Fame: Battleship, Catan, Connect Four, cornhole, Furby, scooter, slime, snow, Spirograph, Star Wars Light Saber, Tickle Me Elmo, and Trivial Pursuit. What do you think?

Our @museumofplay library recently added a copy of Martin Gardner's 1939 book Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions that includes a chapter on the Game of Hex (separately invented by Piet Hein & John Nash). I discussed the history of hex spaces in games here: museumofplay.org/blog/hex-marks…

The museum will close today, July 11, at 4 p.m. due to technical difficulties with our AC. We expect to reopen tomorrow at 10 a.m.

We were honored that Steve Wiebe, former two-time world champion at Donkey Kong, stopped by the museum recently to play the world’s largest playable version!

The Strong was delighted to host Don Rawitsch, co-creator of the original Oregon Trail game, and his family for a museum tour. #OregonTrail

The Strong recently acquired Mattel’s HyperScan video game system (2006). Aimed at tweens, it used RFID-enabled IntelliCards to unlock features and upgrade characters—but outdated graphics and a weak game library led to its discontinuation the following year.