The war in Ukraine has catastrophic consequences and the video game industry is no exception. We have just learned that a museum devoted to the preservation of old computers and video games has just been destroyed in Ukraine.
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A tragedy above all human
The news fell recently and has since been confirmed on Twitter by the account Software & Computer Museum. The collection was owned by a private collector named Dmitry Cherepanov. Obviously, it is not possible to compare a material loss with the thousands of people killed or injured during this tragic war. However, this remains a significant loss for the preservation of computer history, since the collection comprises over 500 pieces. This represents several decades of history that have gone up in smoke.
Much more than a museum, it is also a human loss, because even if he is now safe, Dmitry Cherepanov has also lost his home. As he explains on the it8bit Facebook page:
The Mariupol Computer Museum is no longer there. All that’s left of my collection that I’ve been collecting for 15 years is just scraps of memorabilia on the museum’s Facebook page, website, and radio station.
Cherepanov is taking advantage of the hype around the museum to open a Paypal account, with the aim of raising donations to help him and others in Ukraine.
